Team Lead - NLP

Kensho is a 100-person AI and machine learning company, centered around providing cutting-edge solutions to meet the challenges of some of the largest and most successful businesses and institutions. Our toolkit illuminates insights by helping the world better understand, process, and leverage messy data. Specifically, our solutions largely involve natural language processing (NLP) and include speech recognition (ASR), entity linking (named entity disambiguation), structured document extraction, automated database linking, text classification, and more. We are continuously expanding our portfolio and are looking for passionate researchers to help us build and deploy state-of-the-art models across a variety of domains!
We are currently seeking a Team Lead for the Natural Language Processing (NLP) team, a product and research organization applying and extending the state of the art of textual and document-based AI across a variety of domains. The ideal candidate has industry experience in one or more core NLP fields, for example:
-Named entity recognition (NER)-Entity linking and coreference resolution-Extreme multiclass text classification-Open-domain question answering-Relationship and fact extraction-Financial NLP

What You'll Do

• Manage a dedicated team of ML scientists and ML engineers who design, build and maintain state-of-the-art NLP capabilities that power Kensho’s products
• Ensure that the team builds production-ready modeling code that can be scaled out to billions of documents and millions of users
• Collaborate with the product, go-to-market, and engineering leaders to define the team’s strategic vision and the most promising problems to go after
• Partner with Head of AI research to conduct original research in cross-domain NLP
• Grow, mentor, coach and develop your team members both professionally and technically
• Partner with our talent acquisition team to hire ML scientists and engineers to expand the NLP team
• Be hands-on to the extent that it makes sense for your team

Who You Are

• Have 6+ years of industry experience in one or more core NLP fields
• Have 2+ years of management experienceHave experience mentoring and/or building a team of engineers
• We are looking for someone who can think long term about hiring and training
• Have experience partnering with a product manager
• Have a deep understanding of modern ML system design, from problem framing to deployment and monitoring in production
• You are a thoughtful and collaborative code reviewer and teammate
• You are highly organized and task-oriented
• Measure your professional success by your team’s success

Technologies We Love

• ML: Pytorch, Huggingface, NetworkX, Weights & Biases
• Deployment: Airflow, Docker, EC2, Kubernetes, AWS
• Datastores: Postgres, Elasticsearch, S3

At Kensho, we pride ourselves on providing top-of-market benefits, including: -       Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance -       100% company paid premiums-       Unlimited Paid Time Off-       26 weeks of 100% paid Parental Leave (paternity and maternity)-       401(k) plan with 6% employer matching-       Generous company matching on donations to non-profit charities-       Up to $20,000 tuition assistance toward degree programs, plus up to $4,000/year for ongoing professional education such as industry conferences-       Plentiful snacks, drinks, and regularly catered lunches-       Dog-friendly office (CAM office)-       In-office gyms and showers (CAM, DC)-       Bike sharing program memberships-       Compassion leave and elder care leave-       Mentoring and additional learning opportunities-       Opportunity to expand professional network and participate in conferences and events  About KenshoKensho uses machine learning, artificial intelligence, natural language processing and data visualization techniques to solve some of the hardest analytical problems and create breakthrough financial intelligence solutions for our parent company, S&P Global.  Kensho was founded in 2013 by Harvard & MIT alums and was acquired by S&P Global in 2018. Kensho continues to operate as a startup in order to maintain our distinct, independent brand and to promote our breakthrough, innovative culture. Our team of Kenshins enjoy a dynamic and collaborative work environment that runs autonomously from S&P, while leveraging the unparalleled breadth and depth of data and resources available as part of S&P Global.  As Kenshins, we pride ourselves on maintaining an innovative culture that depends on diversity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer that welcomes future Kenshins with all experiences and perspectives. Kensho is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with offices in New York City, and Washington D.C.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.