Responsibilities
1. Problem Framing & Strategy: Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to define and frame high-impact NLP problems, determining data requirements and designing robust data collection and annotation strategies.
2. Data Preparation & Feature Engineering: Process and analyze large volumes of unstructured text data, performing essential tasks such as tokenization, normalization, and advanced feature extraction.
3. Modeling & Innovation: Design, build, and rigorously evaluate cutting-edge machine learning and deep learning NLP models, including advanced architectures like transformer networks and sequence models.
4. Experimentation & Validation: Execute comprehensive experiments (including A/B testing), define key NLP evaluation metrics (like F1-score, ROUGE, or perplexity), and optimize model performance against business objectives.
5. Deployment Collaboration: Partner effectively with ML and Software Engineers to transition NLP solutions from research prototypes to robust, scalable, and maintainable production systems.
Requirements
6. Specialized Experience: 3+ years of practical experience as a Data Scientist with a dedicated focus on Natural Language Processing (NLP).
7. Technical Stack: Strong proficiency in Python and expert-level familiarity with key NLP and ML libraries (e.g., Hugging Face, SpaCy, NLTK) and deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow or PyTorch).
8. Data Handling: Proven ability to preprocess, analyze, and manage large-scale text datasets, and comfort working with SQL/NoSQL databases in a big data environment.
9. Translational Communication: You are a clear and compelling communicator with the ability to simplify highly complex NLP concepts and technical findings into actionable insights for both engineers and non-technical product/business leaders.
10. Driving collaboration: You easily adapt to at working cross-functionally, proactively collaborating with Engineering and Product teams to align technical solutions with business goals and drive project completion.
11. Independent & Accountable: You demonstrate high ownership over your models, from initial concept design through to production performance monitoring, and can manage ambiguity effectively.
What we offer
12. 28 days of well-deserved holidays
13. Onsite Onboarding in our HQ office for an optimal start
14. Great compensation and benefits packages including company achievement bonus and stock-based options, regular salary reviews
15. Public transport friendly office
16. Special terms for local gyms
17. Fresh organic fruits, muesli, soft drinks and snacks for free
18. Access to Corporate Benefits platform with many discounts
19. Regular Team events and company-wide celebrations
20. Open door policy, no dress code rules and frequent all Hands
21. Hybrid and Flexible work time with up to 50% home office
22. Work From Abroad Program allowing up to 40 days of work outside your contracting country
23. We celebrate diversity as one of core values, join and drive one of the c-a-r-e initiatives together with us!
For this position, the collectively agreed minimum salary (IT Collective Agreement) is €3,843 gross per month based on a 38.5-hour work week. Naturally, a market-competitive overpayment is possible depending on your qualifications, professional experience, and overall expertise.