Senior Data Scientist / NLP Engineer
iTechScope, Greece
Job Description
The position of Senior Data Scientist requires individuals who enjoy taking challenges, prioritize and meet deadlines, have a collaborative work ethic and teamwork spirit, working closely with a local and remote team of developers, speech scientists, engineers and subcontractors. The role is hybrid combining a blend of in-office and remote working.
What is offered:
• A state-of-the-art, highly innovative Product platform, the first of its kind globally, that continuously expands
• A team of seasoned experts to collaborate with International clients and projects in 3 continents
• An open mind to new technologies, methodologies, challenges, and innovation
Day-to-day:
• Leverage a wide range of techniques from linguistic rules to transformers and deep neural networks in your day-to-day work
• Research, experiment with and implement innovative approaches to named entity recognition, relationship extraction entity linking and classification
• Work with customer provided data to both evaluate and continuously iterate on NLP solutions
• Produce performant and production quality robust code following the best practices adopted by the product team
• Improve (in performance, accuracy etc.) existing solution to NLP problems
• Have an agile product mentality balancing between finding solutions that deliver high precision/recall, over simpler approaches that can give value to customers in shorter intervals
• Demonstrate passion, excitement, and real interest in what we do while being respectful of others and fun to work with
• Proven experience with Python and Deep Learning Frameworks (Pytorch preferably, Keras optionally)
• Get involved in all stages of ML lifecycle
Requirements
• Holding a Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, or similar field
• A Data Scientist / NLP Engineer with more than 3 years of experience
• Proficient in English, both verbal and written
• Hard worker, task, deliverables, and quality oriented
• Highly knowledgeable and efficient in standards and documentation
• Self-motivated, proactive with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities
• Fun to work with and be around, like we are
• Passionate, enthusiastic and with a desire to meet objectives and company targets
• Responsible and accountable, with multi-tasking abilities, sound judgment and professionalism
• Efficient, organized, with problem solving and time management skills
• Quick to adjust inside a rapid-changing environment
Nice to have:
• Experience with voice bots and/or chatbots
• Knowledge of No Code and/or Low Code frameworks
• Experience with Application Containerization method and Application Containerization Engines (e.g. Docker)
• Experience with web frameworks for building APIs with Python (e.g. Flask, FastAPI)
Benefits
• An attractive remuneration package
• Private insurance amp; health plan
• Annual performance bonus for meeting quality objectives and completion targets
• Continuous learning/training and research in new technologies, methodologies and innovations
• A great environment to work in, excel and progress professionally
• An excellent opportunity for international career development within a dynamic, fast moving market sector offering demonstrable career challenges internationally