AI/LLM Contractor — Career Transition Track (Contract-to-Hire)
Location: NYC preferred; remote-friendly (part-time, not fully on-site)
Type: Part-time Contract (Contract-to-Hire)
Duration: Month-to-month, or 3 months with possible extension
Pay: $30–40/hour, negotiable based on experience
We welcome candidates from data analytics, data engineering, or traditional software engineering backgrounds who are looking to move into applied AI and LLM work — no prior AI-specific job title required.
About Novellia
Novellia is the first and only company that lets anyone in the US gain access to decades of their health data in under 30 seconds, completely free. We help individuals unify their medical records across providers into one continuously updated longitudinal health profile.
We are building the leading patient-powered real-world data platform for life sciences. Unlike traditional healthcare data providers that rely on fragmented institutional datasets, Novellia enables patients to securely access and authorize 15+ years of longitudinal health records, transforming these complete health journeys into fit-for-purpose datasets for evidence generation, regulatory submissions, and market access.
Our data have been featured in collaborations with leading scientific organizations including ASCO and SABCS/AACR, and we work with top biopharma partners to accelerate research and innovation. Novellia is growing rapidly and backed by tier-1 investors including Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, Bling Capital, and others.
About The Role
We're looking for a Data & AI Contractor passionate about LLMs, NLP, and applied AI to join our team and help build AI-powered products and longitudinal healthcare data solutions.
You'll work closely with the Client Solutions, Data, Engineering, and Product teams to help design and develop best-in-class AI-driven data products while leveraging cutting-edge AI tools to improve productivity, automation, insight generation, and workflows across the company.
This is a hands-on, part-time contract role where you'll contribute directly to real projects and collaborate across technical and business teams to turn complex healthcare and data challenges into scalable solutions. This is a contract-to-hire track — we're looking for someone we can bring on full-time if it's a strong mutual fit.
Who This Role Is For
This role is designed for people with roughly 1–3 years of experience in another technical discipline — data analytics, data engineering, software engineering, or similar — who are looking to pivot into AI/LLM work. You don't need a traditional AI/ML resume; you need strong technical fundamentals, curiosity about applied AI, and the drive to build that experience on real projects.
This Is Where You Come In
We're a fast-moving startup working on difficult and meaningful problems in healthcare and AI. We value people who are curious, proactive, adaptable, and excited to build.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving ambiguous problems, learning quickly, and working across multiple functions in a highly collaborative environment. You should be comfortable operating with a high level of ownership, moving quickly, and communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
If you're excited about AI, healthcare data, and building products that have real-world impact, you'll find the work both challenging and rewarding.
How You'll Spend Your Time At Novellia
AI Products & Data Solutions
Experience & Expertise
Don't meet every requirement? Studies show women and people of color are less likely to apply unless they meet 100% of qualifications. At Novellia, we're committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. If you're excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't perfectly match every qualification.
U.S. Applicants Only
Type: Part-time Contract (Contract-to-Hire)
Duration: Month-to-month, or 3 months with possible extension
Pay: $30–40/hour, negotiable based on experience
We welcome candidates from data analytics, data engineering, or traditional software engineering backgrounds who are looking to move into applied AI and LLM work — no prior AI-specific job title required.
About Novellia
Novellia is the first and only company that lets anyone in the US gain access to decades of their health data in under 30 seconds, completely free. We help individuals unify their medical records across providers into one continuously updated longitudinal health profile.
We are building the leading patient-powered real-world data platform for life sciences. Unlike traditional healthcare data providers that rely on fragmented institutional datasets, Novellia enables patients to securely access and authorize 15+ years of longitudinal health records, transforming these complete health journeys into fit-for-purpose datasets for evidence generation, regulatory submissions, and market access.
Our data have been featured in collaborations with leading scientific organizations including ASCO and SABCS/AACR, and we work with top biopharma partners to accelerate research and innovation. Novellia is growing rapidly and backed by tier-1 investors including Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, Bling Capital, and others.
About The Role
We're looking for a Data & AI Contractor passionate about LLMs, NLP, and applied AI to join our team and help build AI-powered products and longitudinal healthcare data solutions.
You'll work closely with the Client Solutions, Data, Engineering, and Product teams to help design and develop best-in-class AI-driven data products while leveraging cutting-edge AI tools to improve productivity, automation, insight generation, and workflows across the company.
This is a hands-on, part-time contract role where you'll contribute directly to real projects and collaborate across technical and business teams to turn complex healthcare and data challenges into scalable solutions. This is a contract-to-hire track — we're looking for someone we can bring on full-time if it's a strong mutual fit.
Who This Role Is For
This role is designed for people with roughly 1–3 years of experience in another technical discipline — data analytics, data engineering, software engineering, or similar — who are looking to pivot into AI/LLM work. You don't need a traditional AI/ML resume; you need strong technical fundamentals, curiosity about applied AI, and the drive to build that experience on real projects.
This Is Where You Come In
We're a fast-moving startup working on difficult and meaningful problems in healthcare and AI. We value people who are curious, proactive, adaptable, and excited to build.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving ambiguous problems, learning quickly, and working across multiple functions in a highly collaborative environment. You should be comfortable operating with a high level of ownership, moving quickly, and communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
If you're excited about AI, healthcare data, and building products that have real-world impact, you'll find the work both challenging and rewarding.
How You'll Spend Your Time At Novellia
AI Products & Data Solutions
- Build and experiment with NLP- and LLM-based applications
- Develop solutions involving semantic search, embeddings, summarization, RAG pipelines, AI agents, and prompt engineering
- Work on AI-powered products and longitudinal healthcare data solutions
- Analyze structured and unstructured datasets to generate insights and improve product performance
- Leverage cutting-edge AI tools to improve workflows, research, automation, and productivity
- Collaborate closely with Client Solutions, Engineering, Product, and Commercial teams to prototype and iterate quickly
- Translate business and research questions into scalable technical solutions
- Present findings and explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Support internal teams in evaluating new AI workflows, tools, and opportunities
- Contribute to building efficient and repeatable processes across projects
Experience & Expertise
- ~1–3 years of professional experience in data analytics, data engineering, software engineering, or a related technical role
- Strong coding skills in SQL and Python (particularly with common ML/data libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, PyTorch, or TensorFlow)
- Solid foundation in, or strong self-driven exposure to, machine learning, modeling, statistics, and data analysis
- Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex solutions to technical and non-technical audiences
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment with ambiguity and rapid iteration
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Experience working collaboratively across teams is a plus
- Hands-on experience with LLMs and applied AI
- Solid grounding in NLP (natural language processing)
- Experience with semantic search / embeddings
- Experience with summarization techniques
- Experience with RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) pipelines
- Experience with Hugging Face, LangChain, LlamaIndex, vector databases, or cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)
- Personal AI projects, hackathons, research, or open-source contributions
- Experience building AI copilots, chatbots, or agent-based workflows
- Work directly on real AI products and healthcare data challenges
- Gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge AI technologies and workflows
- Collaborate with a highly ambitious and technical team
- Flexible, part-time engagement built around a career pivot into AI
- Contract-to-hire track, with the opportunity to convert to a full-time role for the right fit
Don't meet every requirement? Studies show women and people of color are less likely to apply unless they meet 100% of qualifications. At Novellia, we're committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. If you're excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't perfectly match every qualification.
U.S. Applicants Only
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