Senior Applied Scientist

Senior Applied Scientist

Office Headquarters: Lower Manhattan, NY, or Wellesley, MA | Three Days in Office a Week

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We are seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to join a highly motivated AI research team having a huge impact company wide and supporting the company's effort to lead AI innovations. The team drives innovative initiatives on the intersection of AI/ML and NLP. This is a hand-on role that will be primarily focused on driving the design, development and delivery of new transformative AI/ML solutions to help our clients "Unleash Their Genius". The ideal candidate will have the right aptitude and an imaginative, creative mindset, and has extensive experience with AI/ML research and solution delivery within an industry/academic setup. The individual will be comfortable working in an fast-paced and innovation-focused environment, including evaluation of trends and technologies to assess their feasibility and implementation of viable solutions.

Accrete is on a mission to create AI so powerful it amplifies human reasoning and enables enterprises to grow in previously unimaginable ways. Prior to launching Accrete in 2017, Prashant Bhuyan, Accrete's Founder and CEO, spent over a decade in high-frequency trading where he saw simple rules-based automation render obsolete hundred-year-old exchange floors virtually overnight.

Accrete's solutions enable the Department of Defense to predict covert behavior from foreign adversaries seeking to influence the supply chain; the U.S. Air Force to identify vulnerabilities in microprocessor firmware; major music labels to identify superstars before competitors; auto dealers to automatically generate marketing content from vehicle feature lists; employee benefits brokers to identify the shortest path to the hottest leads; and more.

To learn more about Accrete, please visit our website: Accrete.ai

Your first 3-6 months:

• Learn Accrete products, technological capabilities and codebase protocols
• Deploy Machine Learning Models and improvements in production environment
• Create your three and six month goals with your manager

6-18 months:

• Continue to interface between Product and Research as you design and deploy solutions
• Maintain and Improve existing Machine Learning documentation and codebase
• Work with ML engineers to deploy Machine Learning Models in production environments with a focus on scalability and efficiency and contribute towards research agenda
• Attending internal tech seminars and contributing to development of new or enhanced solutions
• Work with leaders and mentors to set goals for yourself to gain consideration for career development within the company

Requirements

• Must have at least a Doctorate degree in any computationally-intensive mathematical field (statistics, computer science/engineering, applied mathematics, etc.) from a top-tier university or a research organization, including 2+ years of graduate-level research experience
• 2 - 5 + years of work experience in a cutting-edge industry
• Obsessed with data; analytical and rigorous with a thorough understanding of fundamentals, e.g. linear algebra, probability and statistics, machine learning and optimization
• Experience in prototyping and deploying machine learning approaches
• Experience with one of the following: Tensorflow, PyTorch, or any other deep learning/machine learning framework
• In-depth understanding and practical experience of Artificial Intelligence, Quantitative and Qualitative Analytics, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Natural Language
• Processing and Unstructured data analytics
• Several years of experience tackling hard data science and machine learning problems with the Python data science stack
• Strong willingness and aptitude for learning new concepts and analytical approaches
• Comfortable with probabilistic modeling
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with a team

Responsibilities:

• Develop machine-learning or deep-learning models and /optimize/customize/refine them
• Use sophisticated models to create solutions, leveraging state-of-the-art academic research and tools, and iterate on it to improve
• Design scalable systems using innovative architecture
• Document use cases and develop component and interaction (sequence) diagrams
• Design, development and delivery of tested code in an innovative and evolutionary environment
• Work in teams, and provide effective, constructive feedback to the delivery leader
• Manage client expectations and work with an agile mindset with machine learning and AI technology

Benefits

Our Accrete culture is centered on the pillars of intellectual humility, curiosity, and teamwork.

If you're ready to make an impact and work alongside some of the brightest, most creative minds solving problems posed by information complexity, we invite you to join us. Join us in building an ethical, explainable AI capable of performing important work that moves the world forward."

Culture, Benefits & Perks

• Fortune 500 level core benefits package: health, dental, vision, Rx, long-term disability, short-term disability, life insurance, 401(k)
• Hybrid remote work policy - three mandatory days in the office
• 15 days of vacation, five days of sick leave and all federal holidays off
• Company happy hours, team bonding with bowling, tennis, and more
• Well stocked kitchen including healthy snacks - delicious, beverages, supplements, vitamins and more
• Performance bonuses awarded on 12 month calendar anniversary dates (cash/equity)

Accrete is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.