About the role:
As an Applied Scientist, you will work closely with the product and research teams. You will be responsible for leading the initiative to develop machine learning and deep learning models for a variety of tasks, including but not limited to natural language understanding, spoken dialog policy learning, natural language generation, and product search. You will also explore new methods to learn from data with semi-supervised or unsupervised approaches.
Your contributions will directly impact our customers and ultimately improve the overall user experience.
In this role you will:
You will help define the engineering culture and processes with us as we build out the team together. You are passionate about best practices, and know how to ensure your product is performant and high quality. Most importantly, you are skilled at finding the iterative path forward, helping your team take products from MVP to competence to excellence.
Design and implement machine learning and deep learning models to address specific business and customer requirements
Directly contribute to the design and development. of semi-supervised and unsupervised learning methods to improve our models
Collaborate with user interaction designers and software developers to create prototypes that can e commercialized and delivered on our platform
Create core components for our services (engines, frameworks, and libraries)
Publish your research and file patents
Requirements:
Graduate degree (MS or Ph.D.) in computer science or a related field
Research experience in machine learning (classification, tagging, regression, clustering, and reinforcement learning)
Research experience in deep learning and related frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Keras
Ability to integrate and adapt developed production models to satisfy product requirements
Proficiency with Python
Experience with Python data science/statistics/machine learning stack
Academic publication at peer-reviewed international conferences and in journals
Ability to adapt and learn new tasks quickly and switch between them as required
Experience working with language/speech data
Experience working with an agile environment
Relentless desire for innovation balanced with business needs and customer expectations
Preferred Qualifications:
Previous experience in dealing well with ambiguity, prioritizing needs, and delivering results in an agile, dynamic environment
Experience with distributed computing environments such as Spark
Experience with GCP and AWS cloud platforms
Experience shipping innovative, successful consumer products
Experience with deep learning and natural language processing algorithms
VUI Offers:
The ability to make real impact on enterprises seeking search innovation
Fully-paid health benefits
Fully remote work environment with an office in downtown Boston
Unlimited PTO
15 paid company holidays (including your birthday!)
Significant growth opportunities
Featured Benefits:
Medical insurance
Vision insurance
Dental insurance
401(k)
About the Company
VUI, Inc. is a startup based in Boston, MA and Trento, Italy. VUI's AI-powered eCommerce search solution accurately finds the products customers want. Our team is revolutionizing online and in store search using patented natural language query understanding, deep learning technology, and an optimized search engine to return the most relevant search results. Join us to help shape the future of product search!
VUI is an equal opportunity employer. VUI recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.