Data Scientist or Software Developer. NLP technology development

Our client is looking for a new addition to their progressive team: remotely or London-based, mid- to senior-level Data Scientist or Software Developer with experience in building real-world cloud-based NLP applications.

NB! Although we are looking for candidates experienced in NLP projects, the preference is given to those who have a stronger experience in deploying any (i.e. not necessarily NLP-related) applications in production using the tech stack outlined in the job spec, so experience with all or most of the listed AWS services is the key.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance, refactoring, and other ongoing optimisations of the news-processing applications that they have already deployed in their platform (e.g., topic and sentiment analyses, entity extraction, entity disambiguation, etc.)
• Development of novel NLP applications to extract various useful signals from a news feed that includes tens of thousands of sources.

• are interested in working in a privately funded, startup-like environment, backed up by a strong investor

• possess a can-do attitude and require minimal supervision

• have previously contributed to building highly distributed and fault-tolerant applications

• know and follow best practices for software development

• have a solid working knowledge of all or most of the following technologies from our stack:

• Python and AWS CDK for Python

• SQL (Postgres or other dialects)

• AWS services: EC2, VPC, EFS, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, ECR, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, CloudWatch, IAM

• Huggingface and/or other commonly used NLP frameworks and packages

• HNSW or similar ANN algorithms and libraries

• Docker

• Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions

Bonus points if you have any or a combination of the following

• experience in developing predictive applications using traditional Machine Learning algorithms
• experience with graph and/or vector databases
• experience with programming in Rust
• verifiable certificates for any of the aforementioned technologies
• can showcase your skills in the form of open-source contributions, blog posts, online courses or academic publications (co-)authored by you

• Well-funded Project
• Part of a family office, which creates an opportunity to meet many interesting people
• Opportunity to work on intellectually challenging DS problems, build something meaningful and see the results of your work in action
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, which creates a massive skills and career boost
• Flexible working conditions