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# TELECOMMUTE Staff Data Scientist | NLP

- **Company:** Machinify, Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $230,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** A/B Testing, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Named Entity Recognition, Open Source Technology, Search Technologies, SQL Databases, Google Cloud, Pytorch, Large Language Models, HuggingFace, Api Design, Spacy
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/255a3564-321a-4110-a99b-4c40c24ca4d9

## About the Role

* 3+ years of applied ML experience with a meaningful portion in NLP
 * Strong Python and the modern NLP stack: PyTorch or JAX, Hugging Face Transformers, spaCy, sentence-transformers
 * Hands-on experience fine-tuning transformer models (LoRA/QLoRA, instruction tuning, preference optimization) and/or building production RAG systems
 * Solid grounding in evaluation: knows the difference between BLEU/ROUGE/BERTScore/LLM-as-judge and when each is misleading
 * Comfortable with SQL, vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, or similar), and one major cloud (AWS/Google Cloud Platform/Azure)
 * Clear written and verbal communication; can defend a modeling choice and also admit when a heuristic beats a model

Nice to have

 * Publications at ACL/EMNLP/NAACL/NeurIPS or strong open-source contributions
 * Experience with multilingual NLP, speech, or multimodal models
 * Background shipping LLM features in a regulated domain (healthcare, finance, legal)

## Description

We're hiring a Data Scientist focused on natural language processing to build models that turn unstructured text into product features and business insight. You'll own problems end-to-end - framing, data, modeling, evaluation, and shipping - and work closely with engineering and product to put your work in front of users.

What you'll do

 * Design and train NLP models for tasks like classification, entity extraction, retrieval, summarization, and semantic search
 * Fine-tune and evaluate LLMs (open-source and API-based); build RAG pipelines and agentic workflows where appropriate
 * Build robust evaluation harnesses - offline metrics, human-in-the-loop review, and online A/B tests
 * Partner with ML engineers to productionize models (latency, cost, monitoring, drift detection)
 * Turn ambiguous product questions into well-scoped ML problems and communicate tradeoffs clearly to non-technical stakeholders


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