What you'll do:

• Drive the research and innovation in a result-oriented direction.
• Stay up to date with the latest research trends, have a high level of curiosity and keep exploring advancements in NLU and their applications in conversational AI.
• Mentor other team members during the experimentation phase and help them narrow down the inconclusive direction.
• Come up with ideas to improve NLU capabilities using transfer learning from historical conversational data.
• Benchmark the prototype on Data to gain the required precision.
• Perform in-depth analysis of failure points of the algorithm on different environments.
• Foresee data requirements for future research projects and come up with innovative approaches for data generation.
• Scale models for multiple domains with the help of DevOps, backend and frontend teams.
• Publish and present successful research in relevant journals and conferences.

What makes you a great fit:

• Experience with training and fine-tuning machine learning models on large text datasets.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and 8+ years of software development experience.
• Track record of thinking big and finding simple solutions while dealing with ambiguity.
• Proven experience as a Natural Language Processing Engineer or other similar roles.
• Good understanding of Natural Language Processing tricks and techniques for semantic extraction, data structure, and modelling.
• Understanding of text representation techniques, algorithms, and statistics Familiarity with R language, Python, and Java.
• Good knowledge of Machine Learning frameworks such as eras, PyTorch, etc.
• Ability to code and design software architectures.
• Problem-solving abilities, communication skills, and analytical mind.
• Proven and successful experience on at least one of the projects amongst information retrieval, machine comprehension, entity recognition, text classification, semantic frame parsing or machine translation.
• Relevant publications, patents or talks delivered at reputed conferences are a bonus.