Machine Learning Scientist
Portugal - All - Fully Flexible
Zendesk
Job Description
Zendesk is looking for a motivated Machine Learning Scientist to join our team.
Zendesk’s people have one goal in mind: to make Customer Experience better. Our products help more than 125,000 global brands (AirBnb, Uber, JetBrains, Slack, among others) make their billions of customers happy, every day.
Our team is responsible for helping Customer Experience teams to achieve their best, by intelligently solving repetitive work, so they can shift their focus to solving more sophisticated problems. We use the latest trends in Machine Learning and AI algorithms to help us on that mission, and we're passionate about empowering our customers
You will be embedded in a multi-functional team, closely collaborating with scientists, engineers and product. You will contribute to the Research road map of Zendesk, by researching and building efficient multilingual machine learning solutions that can power AI capabilities, such as macro suggestion, multilingual intent detection or sentiment analysis.
What you’ll be doing
Pair with applied ML scientists to learn about our technology stack and architecture
Collaborate with ML teams to research, build and improve efficient multilingual AI solutions with a significant impact on customer support.
Solve meaningful and challenging problems with recent ML techniques including neural networks and information retrieval
Support transference to production of ML techniques and learn how to design for scale. Improving customer support of millions of clients a day!
Collaborate with hardworking, experienced, and humble colleagues around the globe.
Present your work to a multi-disciplinary, global audience.
Be up to date with recent literature in machine learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP), participating in conferences and sharing knowledge internally.
Champion initiatives to improve the quality and robustness of Zendesk AI capabilities.
Mentor and collaborate with other team members
Collaborate with universities in projects and by supervising MSc thesis
Participate in activities and volunteer with other scientists, engineers, students and interns.
What you bring to the role
Required experience:
MSc degree in computer sciences, electrical engineering, math, or related areas.
A solid foundation in statistics and machine learning techniques
Good programming skills in python
Experience with at least one of the main deep learning libraries (Tensorflow, Keras, PyTorch) - PyTorch preferred.
Willingness to learn and grow
Be curious and eager to understand the ML problems in a critical way
Be pragmatic and results oriented
Preferred requirements:
Knowledge and experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a bonus, specially on dialog, information retrieval, classification or sequence to sequence models
Great written and verbal communication skills, with experience conveying technical concepts to a diverse audience of partners.
A collaborative and can-do attitude
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Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.
Zendesk believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.
The intelligent heart of customer experience
Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love. We advocate for digital first customer experiences—and we stick with it in our workplace. Over 5,000 employees worldwide are collaborating from kitchen tables, home offices, coworking spaces, and Zendesk workspaces to make one team.
Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster global diversity, equity, & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment and employees at Zendesk are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer. If you are based in the United States and would like more information about your EEO rights under the law, please click here.
Zendesk endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans pursuant to applicable federal and state law. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please send an e-mail to peopleandplaces@zendesk.com with your specific accommodation request.
* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰
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Perks/benefits: Career development Conferences Equity Salary bonus Team events
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