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Senior Applied Scientist - NLP

Kensho Technologies
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Job Description

Kensho is an Artificial Intelligence company that builds solutions to uncover insights in messy and unstructured data that enable critical workflows and empower businesses to make decisions with conviction. Our products are powered by stateoftheart Machine Learning techniques that allow customers to unlock insights faster using Artificial Intelligence, including voicetotext transcription, data extraction from documents and natural language processing that gives computers the ability to comprehend and analyze human language.

Kensho is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to join our NLP Team, a product and research organization applying and extending the state of the art of textual and documentbased AI across a variety of domains. The ideal candidate has deep industry or research experience and is a recognized expert in one or more core NLP fields, for example:

  • Named entity recognition (NER)
  • Entity linking and coreference resolution
  • Extreme multiclass text classification
  • Opendomain question answering
  • Relationship and fact extraction
  • Summarization

At Kensho, we believe in flexibilityfirst, and give our employees the opportunity to work from where they feel most productive and engaged (must be in the United States). We also value inperson collaboration, so there may be times when travel to one of our Kensho hubs (NY/DC/MA) will be required for team meetings or company events.

Kensho states that the anticipated base salary range for the position is 175k 250k. In addition, this role is eligible for an annual incentive bonus and equity plans. At Kensho, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.

What You’ll Do

  • Develop novel NLP algorithms and models using stateoftheart techniques like deep learning and knowledge baseaugmented ML
  • Move the needle on unsolved problems in crossdomain NLP by conducting original research into replicating and augmenting human expert behavior with machine intelligence
  • Write productionready modeling code that can be scaled out to billions of documents and millions of users
  • Contribute to a stellar engineering culture that values simplicity and function rooted in excellent design, documentation, testing, and code
  • Collaborate with senior product and engineering leaders to identify the most promising problems to go after
  • Share your results with your colleagues (presentations), senior executives (board meetings), and the world (published papers, patents, and blog posts)
  • Mentor and lead other ML Scientists and Engineers to help make our team even more awesome!

Who You Are

Outstanding people come from all different backgrounds, and we’re always interested in meeting talented people! Therefore, we do not require any particular credential or experience. If our work seems exciting to you, and you feel that you could excel in this position, we’d love to hear from you.

That said, most successful candidates will fit the following profile, which reflects both our technical needs and team culture:

  • You hold a degree in Computer Science, Applied Math, or a similar field
  • You have experience designing, executing and evaluating ML experiments with realworld applications
  • You have mastery of the techniques required to work effectively with realworld data and have developed a successful track record training ML models on large, messy datasets
  • You have a deep understanding of what makes for well engineered software systems and understand that even superlative ML coupled with poor code will not go far
  • You prefer to collaborate iteratively on hard problems with your teammates rather than spending stretches of time working alone and presenting your results intermittently
  • You have a love for learning new skills and domains and share your knowledge freely, proactively, and effectively with others who are interested
  • You are a generous and fun teammate and can take your work seriously without taking yourself too seriously

Technologies We Love

  • ML: PyTorch, Hugging Face, Weights & Biases
  • Deployment: Airflow, Docker, AWS
  • Datastores: Postgres, Elasticsearch, S3

At Kensho, we pride ourselves on providing topofmarket benefits, including:

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance 
  • 100% company paid premiums
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • 26 weeks of 100% paid Parental Leave (paternity and maternity)
  • 401(k) plan with 6% employer matching
  • Generous company matching on donations to nonprofit charities
  • Up to $20,000 tuition assistance toward degree programs, plus up to $4,000/year for ongoing professional education such as industry conferences
  • Plentiful snacks, drinks, and regularly catered lunches
  • Dogfriendly office (CAM office)
  • Inoffice gyms and showers (CAM, DC)
  • Bike sharing program memberships
  • Compassion leave and elder care leave
  • Mentoring and additional learning opportunities
  • Opportunity to expand professional network and participate in conferences and events 

Company Info.

Kensho Technologies

Kensho deploys scalable machine intelligence and analytics systems across the most critical government and commercial institutions in the world to solve some of the hardest analytical problems of our time.

  • Industry
    Artificial intelligence,Computer software
  • No. of Employees
    100
  • Location
    Cambridge, MA, USA
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