Kensho
Cambridge, MA
51-200 employees
Kensho develops cutting-edge products and technologies that transform businesses. We are the AI Innovation Hub for S&P Global.
Prior Listings
Senior Applied Scientist - Document Intelligence
Senior Applied Scientist - Document Intelligence
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Who We Are
Kensho is a 100-person AI and machine learning company, centered around providing cutting-edge solutions to meet the challenges of some of the largest, most successful businesses and institutions. Our various products help customers gain insight into their messy data using natural language processing, speech processing, and document processing.
About The Role
Our Document Intelligence team is a group of outstanding ML practitioners aiming to extract, structure, and understand the information contained in unstructured documents. We are continuously expanding our portfolio and are looking for passionate researcher-engineers like you to help us build and deploy state-of-the-art models!
Our primary product is a suite of SOTA ML solutions leveraging linguistic, visual, and spatial features to solve a wide range of complex problems, including: information extraction from document text and tables, document layout analysis, optical character recognition, and more. These solutions power our customers’ data operations (including S&P Global’s), and serve as the foundation for Kensho’s NLP products, such as NERD and Classify.
The Document Intelligence team works closely with the Data, Product, Backend & Frontend teams, and has the full support of our ML ops and Infrastructure teams.
We are seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to help accelerate and improve our model development cycle, continually raising standards of prototyping, building, and maintaining SOTA ML solutions.
What You’ll Do
Design, build, and maintain scalable production-ready ML systems for document processing tasks
Collaborate closely with other ML engineers to build ML pipelines for data processing, training, inference, and evaluation
Actively participate in the ML model lifecycle, from problem framing, through experimentation, to deployment and monitoring in production
Work with unique proprietary datasets of millions of unstructured documents
Work closely with Product, ML Ops, and engineering to deliver ML-based solutions customers rely on
Mentor and lead other ML Scientists and Engineers to help make our team even more awesome!
Who You Are
An expert in document understanding, document intelligence, information retrieval, OCR, or a related domain
3+ years of significant, hands-on experience with ML/NLP/CV (e.g., designing, shipping, and maintaining production systems)
Comfortable with modern tools for building ML pipelines, including data processing, training, inference, maintenance, evaluation, versioning, and experimentation
Expertise in Python and PyTorch-based ML frameworksDemonstrate effective coding, documentation, collaboration, and communication habits[Nice-to-have]
Published in top-tier journals & conferences in document understanding, information retrieval, OCR, or a related domain
Technologies We Love
- ML: PyTorch (+/- lightning), DGL, HuggingFace, XGboost, Weights & Biases, DVC
- Models: graph neural nets, multimodal transformer models (e.g. LayoutLM), object-detection image models (e.g. Detectron)
- Deployment: Airflow, Docker, AWS
At Kensho, we pride ourselves on providing top-of-market 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 non-profit 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
- Dog-friendly office (CAM office)
- In-office 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
About Kensho
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.
Kensho was founded in 2013 and was acquired by S&P Global in 2018. Kensho continues to operate as a startup in order to maintain our distinct, independent brand and to promote our breakthrough, innovative culture. Our team of Kenshins enjoy a dynamic and collaborative work environment that runs autonomously from S&P Global, while leveraging the unparalleled breadth and depth of data and resources available as part of S&P Global. As Kenshins, we pride ourselves on maintaining an innovative culture that depends on diversity and inclusion.
We are an equal opportunity employer that welcomes future Kenshins with all experiences and perspectives. Kensho is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with offices in New York City, and Washington D.C. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
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