NLP and Generative AI Data Scientist

Job title:

NLP and Generative AI Data Scientist

Company:

Quantexa

Job description

Job Description:Founded in 2016 by a small team, Quantexa was built with a vision of enabling better decision making through better data-driven intelligence. Seven years, twelve locations and 700+ employees later we recently gained “Unicorn” status with our Series E funding round. We’ve just completed our first acquisition, combining Aylien’s advanced AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) into our Decision Intelligence Platform.Our new NLP Centre of Excellence addresses one of the most challenging problems in Artificial Intelligence: teaching machines to understand natural language. We build products that extract meaning and insight from text, while also conducting exploratory research that we believe will drive improvements in our products and advance the state-of-the-art. Some examples of NLP areas that are relevant to our products are entity extraction and resolution, machine translation and transliteration, semantic embeddings, classification, information extraction, and clustering. The NLP team leverages recent advances in Generative AI and Large-Language Models (LLMs) in both internal workflows and in user-facing deployments.As a lead NLP data scientist, you will be responsible for developing models and prototypes for new and expanded NLP-based product features, as well as helping us to grow the Quantexa NLP team in Malaga.You will guide data-driven projects through the entire prototyping phase, from conceptualization and design, until they are ready to be productionized. You will also be responsible for improving models and tracking evaluation metrics for our existing ML products. Where possible you will connect Quantexa’s work to relevant threads in NLP and ML research.Responsibilities

• Lead research projects to advance the state-of-the-art in natural language understanding.

• Design, implement and evaluate machine learning models.

• Conduct research to improve our NLP products and collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to take ideas from design through to production.

• Report and present research findings and developments clearly and efficiently both internally and externally, verbally and in writing.

• Suggest and engage in team collaborations to meet research goals.

Requirements:Minimum qualifications

• PhD degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

• 4+ years additional professional experience building and deploying ML technologies in industry settings

• Relevant experience in Natural Language Understanding, Machine Learning, Data Mining or Artificial Intelligence.

• Strong knowledge of the Python data-science ecosystem, and general software engineering skills (experience with version control systems, debugging, testing, etc.).

Preferred additional qualifications

• First-author publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, EMNLP and ACL). Otherwise, familiarity with AI literature.

• Experience building and leading technical teams

• Strong knowledge of the relevant scientific Python stack: NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, PySpark, etc.

• Significant Experience with Deep Learning.

• Experience with integrating the results of research into user-facing products.

• Deep domain knowledge of relevant areas such as NLP, graph-based ML, applied ML, Entity resolution or search.

Benefits:Why join Quantexa?We offer:

• Competitive salary 💰
• Company bonus
• Free Calm App Subscription #1 app for meditation, relaxation and sleep 🧘‍♀️
• Ongoing personal development
• Great Company wide socials
• Plus other local benefits

Our missionWe have one mission. To help businesses grow. To make data easier. And to make the world a better place. We’re not a start-up. Not anymore. But we’ve not been around that long either. What we are is a collection of bright, passionate minds harnessing complexities and helping our clients and their communities. One culture, made of many. Heading in one direction – the future.It’s all about youQuantexa is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive and diverse work environment, where everyone feels welcome, valued, and respected. We want to hear from people who are passionate about their work and align with our values. Qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, colour, ancestry, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, citizenship, marital, disability, or veteran status. Whoever you are, if you’re a curious, caring, and authentic human being who wants to help push the boundaries of what’s possible, we want to hear from you.Internal pay equity across departments is crucial to our global compensation philosophy. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of experience, education, training, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data.Quantexa is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our talent acquisition processes. If you require support, please inform our Talent Acquisition Team.

Expected salary

Location

Málaga

Job date

Sat, 06 Jul 2024 02:19:26 GMT

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