Principal Data Scientist (NLP)

Abstract:

Build our NLP capabilities for the mining of unstructured and quasi-structured data.

Role:

The Principal Data Scientist must be an expert in the full data life cycle. The candidate must review the data we have, understand the business problems we are trying to solve, and craft the best solutions given the limitations of data, and the current state of various NLP technologies. In addition, the Principal Data Scientist must produce deliverable results and take them from development to production in collaboration with our engineers.

Required Experience

-Min 3 years commercial experience in a job function whose title was NLP engineer or Data Scientist.

-Min 5 years of direct commercial NLP production experience.

-Must be fluent at the highest level both in written and spoken English.

• Expertise in the following: Custom Named Entity Extraction, Document Classification, Topic Modeling, tabular data extraction, and general machine learning techniques and the math behind them.
• Experience with preprocessing noisy and/or unstructured textual data and various traditional extraction techniques such as regular expressions.
• Strong knowledge of Spacy and BERT.
• Strong Experience with container technology such as K8 for NLP model deployment.
• Experience deploying models on Azure.
• Experience refining and creating DL models namely CNN's, transformers, and BiLSTM models for NLP tasks.
• Industrial experience using one of the following (Pytorch, Tensorflow, Keras)
• Expert in Python 3.4 and above and TSQL.
• Expertise in guiding annotation, producing, processing, evaluating, and utilizing training data.
• Familiar with various ML/DL cloud architectures.

MSc./PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Computational Linguistics or related quantitative fields