AI Research Lead

Pune

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AlphaSense

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About AlphaSense:

AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform used by the world's leading companies and financial institutions. Since 2011, our AI-based technology has helped professionals make smarter business decisions by delivering insights from an extensive universe of public and private content—including company filings, event transcripts, news, trade journals, and equity research. Our platform is trusted by over 1,800 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 450 people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, and India. For more information, please visit www.alpha-sense.com.   Check out what we’ve built so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPMfWLwv23I

About the Role: 

We are seeking a passionate AI research lead to join our AI Research team in Pune, India. The AI Research team develops the cutting edge deep learning, NLP and ranking systems that power our world class AI powered search platform. This role is a unique combination of technical leadership and people management, in which you will work on hands-on projects, and manage a group of talented researchers and engineers, to deliver scalable solutions for AlphaSense products. 

Who You Are:

  • Ideally, you have an advanced degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or relevant field from IITs/NITs/BITS or other Tier I colleges with a focus on machine learning, but equivalent industry experience may be considered.
  • Familiar with the state-of-the-art Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing research.
  • 8+ years of experience in machine learning and deep learning research and product development.
  • 3+ years of experience in leading a team of researchers and engineers, preferably in a cross-functional distributed environment.
  • Experience in developing large-scale ML and NLP models, and deploying them to production.
  • Proficient with deep learning frameworks and libraries like PyTorch, TensorFlow, HuggingFace and Spacy.
  • An excellent communicator with strong organizational, problem-solving, debugging and analytical skills.
  • A strong engineer who can design large scale software systems, write high quality code and tests. 
  • Proficient with Python. Proficiency with Java is a bonus.
  • Familiar with working with cloud computing (preferably AWS or GCP).
  • Experience in Search technologies such as Lucene/Solr would be a strong bonus

What You’ll Do:

  • Be hands-on in developing scalable AI models and taking them all the way to production.
  • Mentor a group of talented researchers and engineers.
  • Implement best practices for the full AI development life cycle.
  • Collaborate and facilitate communication across functionalities and locations.
  • Work with the Director of AI Research to grow the AI research team in India.
  • Work with Product Management to translate product requirements into AI research projects.
  • Work with partner engineer teams to design, develop and optimize AI solutions.

Tags: AWS Computer Science Deep Learning Engineering GCP HuggingFace Machine Learning NLP Python PyTorch Research spaCy TensorFlow

Perks/benefits: Salary bonus

Region: Asia/Pacific
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