Senior Data Scientist - Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Agolo
Software Engineering, Data Science
Egypt
Posted on Aug 27, 2024
Senior Data Scientist - Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Innovation is at the heart of what we do at Agolo. You will be joining a world-class team of data scientists to develop state-of-the-art natural language processing solutions to pioneer text understanding and summarization.
As a senior scientist at Agolo, you should be able to:
- Lead building NLP-driven solutions from identifying business problems to collecting training datasets, analyzing data, modeling, testing, and validating.
- Research the latest NLP academic papers and prototype ideas that can potentially solve new challenges and enhance existing solutions.
- Lead a team of junior data scientists and mentor them to excellence.
- Collaborate with engineering partners to design, implement and deploy solutions to the production environments.
- Collaborate with product owners to revolutionize the product and content design.
- Prioritizing diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
- Proactively communicate key issues and any other critical topics in a timely manner to the appropriate stakeholders.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English with an ability to present complex technical information to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Adapt to shifting requirements and deal with ambiguity.
Required qualifications:
- 4+ years of experience primarily in NLP. This can include industry experience, open-source contributions, and academic research but not coursework.
- Strong foundation in the NLP techniques and approaches, and statistical machine learning.
- Hands-on experience with deep learning architectures and frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch.
- Strong coding skills in a general-purpose coding language such as Java and Python.
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or a Ph.D. in computer science or a related field (or equivalent experience).
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience building software that deals with noisy, unstructured text data.
- Multilingual NLP experience.
- Publications in top-tier AI/ML/NLP conferences.
- Familiarity with MLOps.
Package:
- Competitive compensation in USD.
- Highest tier health insurance.
- Flexible and open vacation policy.
- Flexible working hours.