AI/LLM Contractor – Career Transition Opportunity (Contract-to-Hire)

About Novellia

Novellia is a pioneering company enabling individuals across the US to access decades of their personal health data within seconds at no cost. We unify medical records from multiple providers to create continuously updated longitudinal health profiles. Our platform transforms these comprehensive patient records into valuable datasets for life sciences research, regulatory processes, and market access, partnering with top biopharma and scientific organizations.

Role Overview

We seek a passionate Data & AI Contractor with interest in large language models (LLMs), natural language processing (NLP), and applied artificial intelligence. This part-time contract position (with contract-to-hire potential) provides the chance to work hands-on with AI-powered products and healthcare data solutions, collaborating across teams to develop innovative AI-driven tools that enhance productivity and workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and experiment with applications using NLP and LLM techniques.
• Develop solutions involving semantic search, embeddings, summarization, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, AI agents, and prompt engineering.
• Analyze both structured and unstructured healthcare datasets to derive insights and improve product outcomes.
• Leverage state-of-the-art AI tools to enhance automation, research efficiency, and productivity across departments.
• Collaborate closely with Client Solutions, Engineering, Product, and Commercial teams to rapidly prototype and iterate AI-driven features.
• Translate business and research challenges into scalable, technical solutions.
• Effectively communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and lay audiences.
• Support evaluating and implementing new AI workflows and tools within internal teams.
• Help establish efficient, repeatable project processes to streamline development.

Qualifications

• Approximately 1 to 3 years of experience in data analytics, data engineering, software engineering, or similar technical roles.
• Proficient coding abilities in SQL and Python, particularly with libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
• Strong foundational knowledge or self-guided experience with machine learning, modeling, statistics, and data analysis.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to explain technical solutions to diverse audiences.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup environment with ambiguity and accelerating timelines.
• Highly organized with close attention to detail.
• Collaborative experience across teams is advantageous.
• Hands-on experience specifically with LLMs, NLP, semantic search, embeddings, summarization techniques, and RAG pipelines.

Preferred Extras

• Familiarity with Hugging Face, LangChain, LlamaIndex, vector databases, or cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Engagement in personal AI projects, hackathons, research activities, or contributions to open-source.
• Experience developing AI copilots, chatbots, or agent-oriented systems.

Work Environment and Benefits

• Opportunity to directly contribute to impactful AI products and longitudinal healthcare data challenges.
• Develop valuable expertise with cutting-edge AI technologies and innovative workflows.
• Collaborate with a driven, technical, and ambitious team.
• Flexible, part-time schedule designed to support career transitions into AI.
• Potential to convert to a full-time role through the contract-to-hire path based on mutual fit.

Additional Information

This role is open to U.S. applicants only. Novellia is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce and encourages candidates to apply even if they do not meet every listed qualification, particularly supporting underrepresented groups in tech.

Terms

• Location: Preference for New York City, though remote-friendly (part-time; not fully onsite).
• Employment Type: Part-time contract with month-to-month duration or initially 3 months with possible extension.
• Compensation: Hourly pay ranging from $30 to $40, negotiable based on experience.