Lead ML/NLP Engineer

Job DescriptionLead Machine Learning (ML)/NLP Engineer5 + years of experienceAbout ContifyContify is an AI-enabled Market and Competitive Intelligence (MCI)software to help professionals make informed decisions. Its B2B SaaSplatform helps leading organizations such as Ericsson, EY, Wipro,Deloitte, L&T, BCG, MetLife, etc. track information on their competitors,customers, industries, and topics of interest by continuously monitoringover 500,000+ sources on a real-time basis. Contify is rapidly growingwith 185+ people across two offices in India. Contify is the winner ofFrost and Sullivan’s Product Innovation Award for Market andCompetitive Intelligence Platforms.The roleWe are looking for a hardworking, aspirational, and innovativeengineering person for the Lead ML/ NLP Engineer position. You’ll buildContify’s ML and NLP capabilities and help us extract value fromunstructured data. Using advanced NLP, ML, and text analytics, you willdevelop applications that will extract business insights by analyzing alarge amount of unstructured text information, identifying patterns, andby connecting the events.Responsibilities:You will be responsible for all the processes from data collection, andpre-processing, to training models and deploying them to production.➔ Understand the business objectives; design and deploy scalableML models/ NLP applications to meet those objectives➔ Use of NLP techniques for text representation, semantic analysis,information extraction, to meet the business objectives in anefficient manner along with metrics to measure progress➔ Extend existing ML libraries and frameworks and use effective textrepresentations to transform natural language into useful features➔ Defining and supervising the data collection process, verifying dataquality, and employing data augmentation techniques➔ Defining the preprocessing or feature engineering to be done on agiven dataset➔ Analyze the errors of the model and design strategies to overcomethem➔ Research and implement the right algorithms and tools for ML/NLP tasks➔ Collaborate with engineering and product development teams➔ Represent Contify in external ML industry events and publishthought leadership articles

Desired Skills and ExperienceTo succeed in this role, you should possess outstanding skills instatistical analysis, machine learning methods, and text representationtechniques.➔ Deep understanding of text representation techniques (such as n-grams, bag of words, sentiment analysis, etc), statistics andclassification algorithms➔ Hand on experience in feature extraction techniques for textclassification and topic mining➔ Knowledge of text analytics with a strong understanding of NLPalgorithms and models (GLMs, SVM, PCA, NB, Clustering, DTs)and their underlying computational and probabilistic statistics◆ Word Embedding like Tfidf, Word2Vec, GLove, FastText, etc.◆ Language models like Bert, GPT,  RoBERTa, XLNet ◆ Neural networks like RNN, GRU, LSTM, Bi-LSTM◆ Classification algorithms like LinearSVC, SVM, LR◆ XGB, MultinomialNB, etc.◆ Other Algos- PCA, Clustering methods, etc➔ Excellent knowledge and demonstrable experience in using NLPpackages such as NLTK, Word2Vec, SpaCy, Gensim, StandfordCoreNLP, TensorFlow/ PyTorch.➔ Experience in setting up supervised & unsupervised learningmodels including data cleaning, data analytics, feature creation,model selection & ensemble methods, performance metrics &visualization➔ Evaluation Metrics- Root Mean Squared Error, Confusion Matrix, FScore, AUC – ROC, etc➔ Understanding of knowledge graph will be a plusQualifications➔ Education: Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science,Mathematics, Computational Linguistics or similar field➔ At least 4 years' experience building Machine Learning & NLPsolutions over open-source platforms such as SciKit-Learn,Tensorflow, SparkML, etc➔ At least 2 years' experience in designing and developingenterprise-scale NLP solutions in one or more of: Named EntityRecognition, Document Classification, Feature Extraction, TripletExtraction, Clustering, Summarization, Topic Modelling, DialogSystems, Sentiment Analysis➔ Self-starter who can see the big picture, and prioritize your work tomake the largest impact on the business’ and customer’s visionand requirements➔ Being a committer or a contributor to an open-source project is aplusNoteContify is a people-oriented company. Emotional intelligence, therefore,is a must. You should enjoy working in a team environment, supportingyour teammates in pursuit of our common goals, and working with yourcolleagues to drive customer value. You strive to not only improveyourself, but also those around you.