Inshorts - Lead Data Scientist

We are seeking a skilled NLP Engineer / AI expert to join our team as lead data scientist. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading , building and operationalizing a variety of recommendation algorithms and NLP models including summarization, question-answering, semantic search, named entity recognition, knowledge discovery, document understanding, and text classification.

Responsibilities :

- Lead data-driven projects from definition to execution, from gathering data, defining metrics to communicating actionable insights

- Propose innovative solutions by exploratory data analysis from complex and high-dimensional datasets, applying statistical and modeling techniques to evaluate performance, make valuable discoveries and solve non-routine analysis problems

- Use a flexible, analytical approach to design predictive models and advanced algorithms that lead to optimal value extraction from the data

- Analyze large sets of news data set from various sources, including websites, wikis, conversation platforms, social media platforms, and databases

- Build NLP/AI models to extract knowledge from these sources and create appropriate models which will indirectly or directly help our content publishers in their day to day operations.

- Develop response blending and summarisation models to provide an overview of search results from these sources

- Be involved in operationalizing these models in highly demanding production environments

- Conduct regular tests of the models to ensure they meet desired metrics on both benchmark and usage datasets

Qualifications :

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.

- Experience in deep learning frameworks (Tensorflow or PyTorch)

- Experience with NLP models, frameworks, and libraries (Hugging Face, Haystack, etc)

- Experience with fine-tuning LLMs as well as prompt engineering on GPT models (good to have)

- Experience with Python

- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

- Minimum 7 years of related job experience