Lightcast
Moscow, ID
201-500 employees
Illuminating the future of work and moving forward with clarity, using the world’s best data-driven talent strategies.
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- Machine Learning Engineer/MLOps Engineer
- Director, Data Analytics & Product
- Research Analyst
- Data Product Manager
- Data Engineer, Web Scraping
- Data Analyst
- Machine Learning Engineer - NLP
- Senior NLP Data Scientist
- Data Scientist I
- Data Scientist
- Data Quality Analyst
- Data Analyst
- Senior Data Scientist - NLP
- Data Engineer
- Linguistic Data Analyst
- Research Analyst
- Senior Research Analyst
- Research Analyst Intern (Summer 2023 )
- Senior Data Engineer
- Research Analyst
Senior Data Scientist - NLP
Senior Data Scientist - NLP
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As a Senior NLP Data Scientist at Lightcast, you will be at the forefront of developing and implementing advanced natural language processing (NLP) algorithms and models to extract valuable information from large volumes of text data. You will be critical in driving innovation and differentiated capabilities in our workforce intelligence solutions by leveraging your deep expertise in NLP, machine learning, and statistical modeling. Your work will help us improve our products and deliver actionable insights to our clients.
Major Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement advanced NLP algorithms and models to extract information from diverse text data sources, such as job postings and resumes, focusing on accuracy and performance optimization.
- Build and fine-tune machine learning models, including pre-trained language models like BERT, GPT-2, and Transformer-XL, using frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
- Conduct research and stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in NLP, machine learning, and related fields, bringing innovative solutions to address complex challenges.
- Collaborate closely with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to define project objectives, requirements, and deliverables, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Effectively communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders, presenting findings and insights clearly, concisely, and compellingly.
- Mentor and guide junior data scientists, fostering their professional growth and promoting a culture of continuous learning and development.
- Contribute to advancing the organization’s data science capabilities by sharing knowledge, best practices, and insights with the broader team.
Skills & Abilities:
- Advanced knowledge of natural language processing (NLP) techniques, including text mining, text analysis, information extraction, and sentiment analysis.
- Strong understanding of machine learning algorithms and statistical models, with experience implementing and fine-tuning pre-trained large language models.
- Proficiency in the Python data science ecosystem, including Pandas, NumPy, spaCy, sci-kit-learn, NLTK, and Gensim.
- Ability to stay current with emerging trends and technologies in NLP, machine learning, and related fields, applying innovative approaches to solve complex problems.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, creativity, and the ability to design new and effective solutions when no suitable approaches are available.
- Strong analytical mindset with the ability to handle and analyze large volumes of text data and derive actionable insights.
Education & Experience:
- A graduate degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of industry experience in developing and implementing NLP algorithms and models, focusing on text mining and analysis.
- Proven track record of utilizing machine learning algorithms and statistical models to extract valuable insights from large datasets.
- Experience with contemporary machine learning and NLP frameworks and designing and building scalable pipelines for analyzing text data.
About Lightcast:
Lightcast is a global leader in labor market insights with headquarters in Moscow (ID) and Boston (MA) and offices in the United Kingdom, Europe, and India. We work with partners across six continents to help drive economic prosperity and mobility by providing the insights needed to build and develop our people, our institutions and companies, and our communities.
Lightcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Lightcast has always been, and always will be, committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We seek dynamic professionals from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.
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