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Penn State University · 4 hours ago

Part-Time Assistant Programmer

United States

Full-time, Part-time

Remote

Mid Level

$57/hr - $57/hr

3+ years exp

The Pennsylvania State University is seeking applicants for a part-time programmer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The role involves building a system that turns peer-reviewed nutrition literature into evidence-based recommendations, including implementing ETL pipelines and fine-tuning transformer models.

Higher Education

Responsibilities

Stand up and own a PubMed or OpenAlex ETL that ingests open-access articles, normalizes metadata, and keeps our corpus fresh

Use and/or fine tune transformer models (e.g., BERT variants) to extract semantic triples (like: (ingredient)–[biolink:ameliorates_condition]–>(health condition)); build evaluation and error-analysis loops

Implement a ranking layer that blends evidence strength (study design, sample size, effect size) with model confidence

Build the recommendation/generative service that balances constraints (evidence score, compatibility, regulatory limits) and exposes a clean API

Construct/maintain a knowledge graph that links every recommendation back to source papers (full provenance) and supports plain-language evidence summaries

Collaborate tightly with PI and domain scientists; deliver milestones on a fast, 12-month pilot timeline