Senior NLP Engineer

Location United States of America
Discipline: Natural Language Processing
Contact name: Maddy Steele

Contact email: maddy@deepabacus.com
Job ref: 83
Published: 9 days ago

The Company 

 

Founded by leading experts in AI and NLP, this NYC-based company provides high-precision text reading for large data sets. Their clients include global healthcare and financial services alongside government contracts.  

What You’ll Do  

  • Map textual data to representations of meaning suitable for data aggregation

  • Design broad-coverage semantic representations, deep enough to capture linguistic phenomena relevant to data aggregation, then build statistical models to learn these representations 

  • Work with large datasets to curate and enrich knowledge bases and package your model artifacts 

  • Develop and improve entity recognition and entity linking using user feedback, dense embeddings, knowledge graph representations

  • Build and deliver models that bring value to clients and can be scaled efficiently over large data sets 

 

What You Need to Succeed   

  • 3+ years of experience in prototyping, testing, and deploying NLP systems to production 

  • Track record of publishing top-tier conferences 

  • Experience working with large datasets 

  • Experience working on text classification, entity recognition, entity disambiguation, relation extraction, interactive information extraction and/or knowledge base construction

  • Experience using tools for prototyping and deploying deep learning models, e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow, spaCy, Hugging Face, scikit-learn.

  • Experience developing in OSX and Linux

  • Knowledge of state-of-the-art deep learning and NLP methods, e.g. CNNs, RNNS, transformers

  • Strong programming skills and experience with ML and deep learning libraries 

  • Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals and software development 

  • Ability to write and deliver code 

 

What’s On Offer   

  • Competitive compensation package 

  • Bonus and Equity