Position: NLP/Data Science Specialist
Company: matchy.tech
Category: Data Science
Experience required: 3y
English level: fluent

Califonian-based cutting-edge technology company dedicated to harnessing the power of data and analytics for intellectual property is seeking a highly skilled NLP & Data Science Specialist to join our remote team and contribute to solving complex problems in entity resolution and patent data analysis.

Key Responsibilities:
1. Develop and improve NLP algorithms for entity name resolution to clean and match names from documents with entries in our database.
2. Build large language models specialized in the patent domain, and use these models to identify similarities
based on user-provided descriptions.
3. Conduct data cleaning and preprocessing to ensure the quality and integrity of text data sourced from various documents.
4. Design, develop, and optimize machine learning models for text classification, entity recognition, and information retrieval.
5. Work with data, understanding its structure and terminologies, to ensure accurate analysis and processing.
6. Interface with databases (SQL/NoSQL) to store, retrieve, and manage data efficiently.
7. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and provide data-driven insights.
8. Present findings and explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
9. Stay abreast of the latest developments in NLP and data science, and suggest ways to leverage them for continuous improvement.
10. Provide documentation and knowledge sharing for developed solutions.


Qualifications & Skills:
1. Bachelorʼs or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related field.
2. At least 3 years of experience in NLP and machine learning, with a strong focus on text processing and language modeling.
3. Proficiency in Python and familiarity with NLP libraries (such as spaCy, NLTK, Hugging Face Transformers) and machine learning libraries (such as TensorFlow, PyTorch).
4. Knowledge of database management systems (SQL/NoSQL) and experience with optimizing database queries.
5. Experience with similarity measures and text-matching algorithms.
6. Familiarity with patent data and terminologies is a plus.
7. Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work creatively to overcome challenges.
8. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
9. Self-starter with the ability to work independently and as part of a remote team.

The company provides a great compensation package after 90 days of work.