About the job
We are looking for an exceptional applied scientist to join our team building SpektrBot, a conversational AI assistant that helps data engineers and analysts with their workflows. You will work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement, and optimize natural language processing models like intent classification, named entity recognition, question answering, etc. that enable our Ads chatbot to understand user requests and have natural conversations.
Responsibilities
Study and understand data engineering and analytics workflows to design the right conversational experiences
Research, design, and develop NLP/NLU models for intent classification, entity extraction, sentiment analysis etc.
Continuously improve models through techniques like active learning, transfer learning etc.
Optimize models for metrics like precision, recall, latency, interpretability etc.
Implement models within overall bot architecture and integrate with backend systems
Collaborate with engineers to productionize and monitor models
Stay up-to-date on latest advancements in conversational AI research, specifically in LLMs (multi-agent, chain of thought, autonomous agents)
Be familiar with optimizing retrievers in RAG architectures
Qualifications
Minimum
3+ years of building models for business application experience
PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing
Preferred
Experience using Unix/Linux
Experience in professional software development