Position: NLP/Data Science Engineer
Company: Svitla
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for an NLP/Data Science Engineer for a full-time position (40 hours per week) in Ukraine. Our client is an on-demand voice services library. They are working with leading brands in fitness, retail, innovative home technology, and more to create the most extensive collection of voice services. The client also partners with audio hardware device manufacturers to integrate the SDK and develop the next listening device generation. Today’s voice assistants are great, but they are being asked to do things they were not initially created to do. Go ahead, wake up one assistant to ask another to get you a car, a coffee, or play your favorite playlist. The solutions reduce the friction by helping you connect with multiple assistants and all their skills or actions while acting as the library for the brands deploying their voice-enabled solutions. The client has signed some of the world's biggest brands and is creating voice assistants to integrate into their platform and their core consumer-facing apps. They have built out voice assistants for NPR and Spotify and have rapidly discovered the limitations of tools like Amazon Lex and Dialog Flow. The client needs to provide the best voice consumer-facing experience to delight and empower users with their voice. They believe that deep learning in data science and machine learning will get them to the next level of voice models. The client is looking for a Natural Language Processing Engineer to help improve the NLP products and create new NLP applications. NLP Engineer responsibilities include transforming natural language data into useful features to feed classification algorithms using NLP techniques. To succeed in this role, you should possess outstanding skills in statistical analysis, machine learning methods, and text representation techniques. Your ultimate goal is to develop efficient self-learning NLP applications.
Requirements:
Proven experience as an NLP Engineer or similar role.
Expertise in NLP techniques for text representation, semantic extraction techniques, data structures, and modeling.
Ability to effectively design software architecture.
Deep understanding of text representation techniques (such as n-grams, a bag of words, sentiment analysis, etc.), statistics and classification algorithms.
Knowledge of Python, Java, and R.
Ability to write robust and testable code.
Experience with machine learning frameworks (like Keras or PyTorch) and libraries (like scikit-learn).
Strong communication skills.
An analytical mind with problem-solving abilities.
Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Computational Linguistics, or similar field.
Responsibilities:
Study and transform data science prototypes.
Design NLP applications.
Select appropriate annotated datasets for Supervised Learning methods.
Use effective text representations to transform natural language into useful features.
Find and implement the right algorithms and tools for NLP tasks.
Develop NLP systems according to requirements.
Train the developed model and run evaluation experiments.
Perform statistical analysis of results and refine models.
Extend ML libraries and frameworks to apply in NLP tasks.
Remain updated in the rapidly changing field of machine learning
We Offer:
Competitive compensation plan that takes skills and experience into consideration.
Annual performance appraisals.
Possibility to choose your workspace either remote or combination of your home and one of our development offices. 
Projects that use advanced, cutting-edge technologies.
Competitive bonuses for a personal recommendation of new employees.
Vacation time, sick-leaves, national holidays, family supplementary days off.
Comprehensive medical insurance including dental services, massages.
Support for a healthy lifestyle, compensation of sports events.
Maternity leave policy.
A personal loan budget is available for long-term personnel.
Partial compensation of conferences, courses, and English classes.
Free meetups, webinars, and conferences organized by Svitla.
Birthday and New Year presents for personnel, gifts for children.
Fun summer and winter corporate parties and memorable anniversary presents.
About Svitla:
Svitla Systems is a multinational software development company headquartered in Silicon Valley, with business and development offices throughout the US, Mexico, and Europe (Ukraine, Poland, Western Europe). Svitla is an outspoken advocate of workplace flexibility, best known for its well-established remote culture, individual approach to our teammate’s professional and personal growth, and family-like environment.

Since 2003, Svitla has served a wide range of clients, from innovative start-ups in California to mega-large corporations such as Ingenico, AstraZeneca, and Ancestry. At Svitla, developers work with clients’ teams directly, building lasting and successful partnerships, as a result of seamless integration with on-site processes. 

Svitla Systems’ global mission is to build a business that contributes to the well-being of our partners, personnel and their families, improves our communities, and makes a lasting difference in the world. Join us!

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