NLP Researcher

Job Description

We are looking for researchers who are passionate about applying NLP/NLU techniques to real-world problems.
This role involves working closely with a diverse team of experienced researchers to design state-of-the-art AI algorithms with a focus on applications in Natural Language Processing, Operations Research, Human-in-the-loop systems, and related fields. The objective is to design and evaluate the developed algorithms specific target applications. There will be an opportunity to impact on important products and publish in prestigious AI venues at the same time."

Responsibilities:

• Research on fundamental theories of natural language processing and machine learning to build innovative applications.
• Create training datasets and/or evaluation datasets for target applications or benchmark suites.
• Build competitiveness of products by filing patents for intellectual properties
• Build demo application or proof of concepts with collaboration of engineers and product teams.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest research trends that could improve our products
• Publish and present research work at top NLP/ML conference venues.

Qualifications

• Obtained or in pursuit of Ph.D. or Master in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, and Mathematics specializing in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, NLP or similar fields.
• Deep understanding of machine learning and natural language processing models and techniques
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with deep learning / NLP framework such as Pytorch, Tensorflow, AllenNLP, HuggingFace transformers library, etc.
• 3+years of expertise in at least one area of NLP research (e.g. generation, semantic parsing, language modeling, information extraction, conversational AI and dialogue systems, computational linguistics, etc.)
• Published in one of the top ML/NLP conference venues (e.g. ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, ICLR, NeurIPS, CoLING, etc.)
• Skilled in at least one programming language.
• Ability to scope and schedule deliverables independently, and be accountable for performance and delivery.
• Energetic and self-motivated team player, with a passion to innovate and build best-in-class products.
•  Ability to communicate effectively in both written and oral settings