Team Lead Data Scientist- NLP
Alternative Data Vendor | NYC
$180K-$210k + bonus & equity
Perks: Unlimited PTO, Conference Stipend, Weekly lunches, Maternity / Paternity Leave
A series-B alternative data intelligence is looking for a senior Natural Language Processing specialist that can work on an individual contributor basis that will work with massive data sets ranging from Geo-Data, mobile app, credit data, and cargo data, just to name a few. While you will be a IC at first, this team is growing fast and management experience is a plus. You will be partnering with product, engineering and sales teams who have a passion for undertaking the most difficult NLP problems. The data products you will help build and design will first and foremost track real-time financial data to buy / sell side clients. You will also be tasked with developing machine learning systems to exact data from both structured and unstructured data sources.
Ideal candidates are intellectually curious and are always looking to break down machine learning barriers to find new solutions. Ideally you will have a few years of experience in the alternative data field, but other fields are interesting as well.
Requirements:
- At least 4 years of professional experience in a data driven company
- MS/PhD in a Mathematics, Stats, Computer Science or a highly quantitative field
- Expert level skills in Python
- Built Machine Learning models with Apache Spark
- Strong background in NLP and a firm grasp of multiple of the following concepts: name entity recognition, cognition, collaborative dialogue, formal reasoning, sentiment analysis and natural language understanding.
If you are interested in learning more about this role, please send your resume or call 646.759.4564.
