Job Description
Applied Research Scientist / Engineer - NLP / Speech Projects
- Applied Research Scientist in NLP / speech to develop EdTech Machine Learning
- Applied Research Scientist / Engineer with NLP / Speech expertise
About Our Client
Page Group are delighted to be working exclusively with the world's most valuable multi-national EdTech Unicorn business, BYJUS.
Within a decade of its launch, BYJUS have rapidly expanded to now cater to a large student community globally where it has a presence in over 120 countries, impacting millions of learners worldwide. The mission is to ultimately create better learning outcomes, for ALL students.
With a core set of digital products already creating a dent in the education arena the need and opportunity to further innovate and evolve those products to better support their user base is clear to see. BYJUS are looking to revolutionise the digital learning pathways for children all over the world.
Job Description
Reporting into the research principal, you will be working as part of a growing research team dealing with some complex and challenging problems which will truly impact their EdTech product capability.
As a specialist in NLP Natural Language Processing you will research, manage and develop approaches to the numerous challenges and opportunities BYJUS have to develop their product capability.
As a member of the research lab, you will be an innovator and expert at exploring and solving some of the most complex problems at the cutting edge of digital learning using the state of the art AI technologies. Broadly, you will be tasked with identifying and tackling complex problems surrounding digital product development to ultimately impact and advance BYJUS product evolution.To be effective in this role, you will need to have a deep understanding of AI technologies, strong problem solving, and work effectively with engineers, project managers, and other researchers to innovate BYJUS products. A deep understanding of AI and NLP is needed to identify impactful problems and propose effective solutions and influence the direction of our capability. Depending on your scope, you would be required to lead and motivate other scientists or engineers to develop workstream and product concepts.
The Successful Applicant
Applied Research Scientist / Engineer - NLP and Speech field
All industry backgrounds are encouraged to apply, the key desire is wanting to make a difference to our younger generation and presents an opportunity to give something back for social good.
Candidates should have experience in some of the following:
- Masters or Ph.D. degree in computer science, or related technical, math, or to NLP field
- Strong knowledge and experience in applied research and/or engineering in NLP Natural Language Processing
- Strong knowledge of foundational concepts in NLP, machine learning / AI
- Being able to identify high-impact problems and execute complex research and development projects in NLP and preferably in Speech
- Hands-on experience in building models with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, or similar.
- Fluent in at least one programming language, preferably Python
- Strong written and oral communication skills to communicate effectively internally within and between organizations.
Nice to have:
- Track record of publications in top-tier venues such as NeurIPS, ACL, ICML, EMNLP, CVPR, ICCV, etc.
- Open-source contributions, especially in the space of AI
What's on Offer
In return, you will have the opportunity to make a real impact in Tech for good and play a hand in evolving the educational landscape as we know it. BYJUS is the largest EdTech company in the world. You will be working with terabytes of text, images and other types of data to solve real world problems.
Successful candidates will be offered an attractive salary and compensation package with excellent benefits.
Flexible working arrangements to be effective in your role! We have an office in Kings Cross, London and would welcome collaboration and team building to help our people achieve great things!
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