Python Developer

Job Description

Functions as Python developer in general and Natural Language Processing/Machine Learning developer in particular. The ideal candidate should be comfortable in analyzing data at scale, have experience implementing, and possess outstanding skills in statistical analysis, machine learning methods and text representation techniques. He/she will help develop efficient unstructured data extraction and self-learning NLP applications. Some other responsibilities include:

• Design and build horizontally scalable components within the major platform that the team is developing
• Review and provide code feedback in terms of best practices with keen eye towards performance and stability optimizations
• Become subject matter expert on code deployed on our platform and support to other developers
• Write reusable and extendable code and become a key contributor of the core platform
• Consistently work to make our software simpler
• Challenge yourself and your peers to always improve

Required Skills/Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Python, Java and R and 8+ years in IT
• Proven experience as an NLP Engineer or similar role
• Deep background in information retrieval (OCR, Speech-to-Text etc.), Natural Language Processing (NLP), knowledge representation or computational linguistics
• Understanding of NLP techniques for text representation, semantic extraction techniques, data structures and modeling
• Understanding of text representation techniques (such as n-grams, bag of words, sentiment analysis etc), statistics and classification algorithms
• Experience with machine learning frameworks (like Keras, Tensorflow, PyTorch) and libraries (like scikit-learn, SpaCy, NLTK, CoreNLP, Gensim)
• Strong communication skills and analytical mind with problem-solving abilities