Data Scientist

Description

• MS or PhD in Computer Science, or related field or experience

• 6+ years of information extraction, NLP, statistical data analysis and predictive modeling

• 3+ years’ experience developing commercial software products

• Implementing and deploying standard NLP systems for text classification, entity extraction, sentiment analysis, etc. with extensive experience in

o Collecting and preparing training data

o Training supervised and unsupervised models

o Optimizing model hyperparameters

o Analyzing errors for machine learning models

• Real-world application of deep learning to train NLP models

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and evaluate machine learning models suitable for text analytics tasks such as extraction, disambiguation and classification

• Contribute to the design of solutions that fit the business problem, may include custom algorithm development

• Develop new features for existing products, implement proof of concept and prototypes

• Work closely with product development teams and product stakeholders following an Agile product development methodology

• Effectively communicate with fellow technologists and other stakeholders

Knowledge, Skills, and Tech:

• Non-trivial project experience in text analysis, information extraction, entity extraction, machine learning and natural language processing

• Strong working knowledge of Bayesian Statistics, Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

• Experience building models with at least one of the following techniques/tools:

o SVM, Naïve-Bayes, CRF, Binary/Multinomial Logistic Regression, LDA, word2vec, doc2vec

o Transfer Learning for NLP

• Strong programming skills required in Python, at least one other language like Java or C++ is desired

• Tools/Libraries:

o NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, NLTK, Gensim, SpaCy, PyTorch, Jupyter Notebooks

o Transformers

• Experience with SQL, NoSQL databases

• Strong cross-platform skills (Linux and Windows)

• Experience developing software within an Agile product development environment