Research Scientist

Do you want to work on cutting edge AI technology that people love to use everyday?  Do you want to contribute fundamental research to drive the industry forward? Come work alongside industry-leading scientists and engineers pursuing our mission to make conversations more valuable. 

Your Impact

• Work with cutting edge technology to reimagine the future of conversations
• Build NLP solutions that help people get unparalleled value from meetings and conversations
• Shape the future of the company by researching and developing new undiscovered capabilities
• Conduct research using large-scale real-world data to unleash the power of speech
• Collaborate with awesome team members to optimize existing features

We're looking for someone who

• Industry experience with large scale data processing and infrastructure, model training and model serving for NLP solutions and algorithms including transformer models and reinforcement learning
• Hands-on experience developing, training and deploying large language models (LLMs) such as BERT, GPT-3, and other transformer-based models for tasks including text generation, summarization, and classification
• Experience working on deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch for implementing and optimizing deep learning algorithms
• Experience with implementation of algorithms and infrastructures using programming languages such as Python,  C++
• Comfort working in a Linux command-line environment
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, NLP or related field

Additional nice-to-haves

• Master or Ph.D. degree(s) in machine learning, speech/language processing or related field
• Industry NLP experience with summarization, question answering, search, recommendation, etc
• Experience with MapReduce, Spark, or similar frameworks

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