Machine Learning Researcher - Natural Language Processing (NLP)

A World-Changing Company
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The Role
We are looking for someone that is passionate about natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning, someone that likes to push the boundaries of what is possible, and want to solve hard problems on top of unique datasets. You will be responsible for implementing, customizing, and inventing NLP deep learning techniques for some of the most challenging datasets. In this role, you will have the opportunity to get exposed to real customer problems early on and to help formulate, and drive novel deep learning solutions from the ground up.
Our Machine Learning team develops pioneering machine learning techniques to address immediate customer needs and to ensure Palantir’s platforms offer unparalleled machine learning capabilities.

Core Responsibilities

• Read, present, and implement research papers in the areas of NLP and deep learning.
• Modify and/or invent state of the art techniques to solve real-world problems and apply them to tasks such as Natural Language Understanding, Summarization, Text Classification, Intent Classification, Question Answering, etc. to optimize performance on unique datasets.
• Work closely with engineering teams to push innovative learning models to production.
• Propose and implement new ideas/directions in NLP/Deep Learning that can effectively solve customer problems.

Technologies We Use

• Python
• PyTorch
• ONNX
• Docker
• Spark

What We Value

• Experience with the latest NLP models such as BERT, GPT-2/3, T5, BART, etc.
• Experience with deep learning NLP toolkits such as Hugging Face, spacy, etc.
• Experience with vision-and-language multimodal pre-training and fine-tuning.
• Proficiency with any of the major Deep Learning frameworks and libraries.
• MS in Computer Science or related fields, or a PhD degree.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

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