• Job Description

  Req#: R01113274

  Job Description:

  Computational Linguist (New Health Care Company)

  3M is establishing two industry-leading companies, creating value through the spin-off of its Health Care business, while 3M will continue to be a global material science leader, focusing our innovation to win in favorable global megatrends and attractive end markets. This new Health Care Company will be a leading global diversified health technology company with:

  • Proven category leadership
  • Exposure to attractive end-markets
  • Innovation mindset driving improved patient outcomes.
  • Collaborative customer relationships
  • Deep global regulatory experience
  • Operational excellence and strong cash flow
  • Strong sales growth and profitability with significant recurring sales

  We expect the creation of the two companies will be completed by the end of 2023. For now, we will continue to operate as one global company. This role is positioned to drive the success of the "New Health Care Company”.

  This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

  The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

  As a Computational Linguist, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

  • Supporting clinical Natural Language Understanding (NLU) system by maintaining and improving grammars, parsers, and terminologies.
  • Extracting, manipulating, and analyzing textual data and annotations using Python and batch scripts.
  • Determining solutions and priorities for NLU issues and enhancement requests.
  • Implementing and testing solutions in coordination with clinical, technical, and business teams.
  • Willingness to be on-call

  Your Skills and Expertise

  To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Linguistics /OR Computational Linguistic (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited university

  OR

  • High School Diploma/GED or higher (completed and verified prior to start) and a minimum of eight (8) years of experience in software development (course work and internship experience considered)

  • Two (2) years of professional experience with grammars and parsing, corpus analysis in a private, public, government or military environment
  • Two (2) years of professional experience with data annotation AND/OR medical coding and documentation.
  • Experience with regular expressions.

  Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

  • Master’s degree in a Linguistics or related field with an emphasis on computational linguistics, corpus analysis, syntax/morphology or related.
  • Experience with Python.
  • Experience/education with medical coding and documentation or healthcare informatics.
  • Proficiency with regular expressions.
  • Experience handling/transforming different formats including HTML, XML, JSON.
  • Experience with GitHub (merge/resolve conflicts) or other version control.
  • Experience with Java.
  • Good analytical and troubleshooting skills.

  For current employees, internal transfer restrictions may not apply. For more details, contact your local recruiter/HR team.

  Work location:

  • Work Your Way Eligible - [Remote]

  Travel: May include up to [10%domestic/international]

  Relocation Assistance: No

  Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

  Supporting Your Well-being

  3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.

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  Responsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.

  Our approach to flexibility is called Work Your Way, which puts employees first and drives well-being in ways that enable 3M’s business and performance goals. You have flexibility in where and when work gets done. It all depends on where and when you can do your best work.

  Pay & Benefits Overview: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/careers-us/working-at-3m/benefits/

  3M is an equal opportunity employer. 3M will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.

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