Data Scientist (all levels) - NLP

About the CompanyFounded in 2018 by professors of Yale University and Columbia University, CertiK is a pioneer in blockchain security, utilizing best-in-class AI technology to secure and monitor blockchain protocols and smart contracts. CertiK’s mission is to secure the cyber world. Starting with blockchain, CertiK applies cutting-edge innovations from academia into enterprise, enabling mission-critical applications to be built with security and correctness.
CertiK is one of the fastest growing and most trusted companies in blockchain security and has become a true market leader. To date, we have collectively worked with over 1800 enterprise clients, helped secure over $310 billion worth of digital assets, and detected over 31,000 vulnerabilities in blockchain code. Our clients include leading projects such as Aave, Polygon, Binance Smart Chain, Terra, Yearn, and Chiliz.
CertiK just raised over $140 million and backed by Coatue, Tiger Global, Sequoia, and Hillhouse Capital.
CertiK is looking for a Data Scientist specializing in natural language processing with experience analyzing social media data from platforms such as Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Telegram, and more.
About YouYou are creative, fascinated by human language and behavior, and excited by the ability to turn data into insights to help our users detect fraudulent behavior, identify sophisticated sentiment trends, filter and categorize news, and make smarter investment decisions.
You are eager to sift through enormous social media and language data sets to discover patterns, formulate problems, and create clever solutions using a variety of methods. You are willing to step out of your comfort zone, and try and discard techniques as needed to find the best fit for a problem set. You also work well in a tight-knit team of other data scientists, data engineers, program managers, researchers, and designers.
As a senior data scientist, you are experienced with and excited to mentor junior data scientists. You can help organize and coordinate a data science team, implement processes to maximize team effectiveness, prioritize tasks, tackle the toughest data problems, and keep the team updated on new NLP techniques. You can also work closely with data engineers to make sure data is being acquired and labeled at a fast rate while maintaining quality.

Responsibilities

• Explore data sets to find patterns and identify possible problems and solutions
• Communicate with senior data scientist and program manager to prioritize tasks, come up with timelines, and set expectations
• Use a variety of machine-learning, rules-based, and other techniques to develop production-ready analytical insights for internal teams and external users
• Stay updated with and share new NLP and data science techniques
• Routinely use social media to understand posting behavior and language use, especially in cryptocurrency communities
• Help maintain data quality and propose ideas to speed up and improve team processes

Requirements

• For senior level: 5+ years of experience working on large scale data science NLP projects and 2+ years experience managing data science teams
• For other levels: 2+ years of experience working on data science projects
• B.S. degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Linguistics, or related field or equivalent experience
• Expertise in SQL, Git, and Python including standard libraries such as pandas and numpy
• Strong familiarity with machine and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, FastText, HuggingFace, sci-kit, gensim, or others
• Some experience with state-of-the-art NLP models such as Transformers (BERT) and vector embeddings
• Strong familiarity with popular social media platforms and some familiarity with internet meme culture and cryptocurrency
• Ability to work well with others and communicate problems and findings clearly
• Some experience with data DevOps tools such as airflow, amusden, kafka, or others is a plus

CertiK is proud to offer medical, vision, and dental insurance, 401(k) plan with company matching, life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, HSA (with high deductible plan), FSA, and other benefits to all full-time employees, along with flexible paid time off and holidays. 
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
CertiK is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, medical condition, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status or civil partnership/union status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, childbirth, genetic information, military and veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state or local law.
CertiK will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements.https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/employers/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf
All CertiK employees are expected to actively support diversity on their teams, and in the Company.