Lead Machine Learning Developer - NLP and Transformers - remote
Smodin LLC
Posted 2 years ago
Salary Range: 120-200k
Are you in love with NLP? Are you inspired by the fact that in a year or two Open AI will release a model with as many neurons as the human brain with the knowledge of the entire web? If not, this job isn’t for you!
Smodin, a multi-lingual writing and language tool suite, is looking for an intelligent Machine Learning lead! Your time split should be spent 75% of the time for business-related tasks, and 25% of the time exploring new ideas.
The Team and Culture:
Currently a team of 12, we are placed throughout the globe, largely in the middle east. We make it our highest priority for all the developers to work on tasks they enjoy working on, to make their own hours, and to voice their opinions. We seldom have meetings, just bi-weekly sprint planning and any other meetings as needed. The team is currently led by our developer CEO, and we’ve taken a strong product-focused mindset for what we do. We are a group of high-caliber individuals looking to build cool solutions to new problems.
Current Projects:
>Smodin Author - an AI essay and article writer
>Smodin Rewriter - Flagship product which is constantly being improved
>Smodin Oracle - Answer student homework questions in any subjects
>Essay Grader - AI grader
About Smodin:
Smodin started with a vision to make everyday tools available to every language. Now, Smodin helps mostly students in 50 different languages across 250 countries. All codebases were created using solid clean code principles. It’s recently grown substantially becoming a top 6000 website globally
You must be:
>Extremely excited by the NLP eco-system with substantial experience working with transformer models
>Curious and creative
>Experienced managing ML projects, devs, ML Ops, optimization, and estimating timelines
You’ll Be Asked To:
>Draft plans for current projects moving forward
>Standardize python and ML practices at the company (including pipeline creation)
>Research and bring NLP ideas to the table for new ways to help millions of students or virtual workers across the globe
>Meet with the team as necessary to be in the loop on all ML things here at smodin
>Optimize models, and suggest new optimization approaches worth trying
Our Tech Stack:
>Google Cloud Platform (infrastructure uses docker containers and simple pipelines)
>NLP Cloud for ML model deployment
>NodeJS and Python backends
>React JS front ends
>Google Firebase
>Bitbucket / Jira
>Slack for communication
Benefits:
>15 days PTO (monetarily reimbursable)
>Unlimited unpaid leave, short notice days off
>Holidays location-dependent (monetarily reimbursable)
Experience Requirements:
>4+ years with python
>2+ years with transformer models (optimization experience required)
>0.5+ years leading a team