AI Research Engineer

Job Summary

The research engineer role is responsible for executing applied research in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Daily activities include exploring state-of-the-art research, managing datasets and annotations, programming experiments and ML models, and developing proof-of-concepts and MVPs.

Responsibilities & Accountabilities

• Immersion in state-of-the-art research in Machine Learning, with focus on natural language processing (NLP).
• Performing data engineering tasks such as data gathering, data annotation procurement, data wrangling, feature extraction and building data pipelines.
• Developing, planning and managing NLP systems by implementing algorithms published in top-tier research papers, training, evaluating solutions and performing statistical analyses on results to refine models.
• Deploying and maintaining ML/NLP libraries to be used by the research community.
• Deploying and maintaining research-based products that solve real-world problems.
• Mentor junior engineers and scientists, research and implement novel NLP approaches which add value.

Job Requirements

• Strong understanding of recent developments in AI, NLP, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning.
• Strong background in Python development for Machine Learning, and/or experience in designing and deploying software architectures including front-end and back-end.
• Experience in building data pipelines and deploying models for production.
• Background technology portfolio (demonstration of two or more is preferred):
  1. Experience in cloud platforms such as Google Cloud and AWS.
  2. Deep learning frameworks/NLP: Tensorflow, Keras, spaCy, NLTK, Gensim...etc.
  3. Knowledge in a python web frameworks (Flask or Django).
  4. Knowledge in one or more Object-Oriented Programming Languages (C#, Java, ... etc.)
  5. Experience with version control tools.
  6. Experience with SQL Databases (MS SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL etc.) and NoSQL Solutions.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering (Master’s is preferred)
• English language proficiency