Responsibilities
● Make advances in NLP, CV and deep learning to build advanced dynamic models of student learning and assessment
● Collaborating cross-functionally with product managers, assessment designers, psychometricians, research scientists, engineers, and analysts
● Capitalizing on advances in AI and Machine Learning to develop high-value products, including automated educational content generation, classification of content against deep taxonomic representation, among others.
● Impacting product development while working on and further developing a long-term research roadmapServing as major contributors to a long-term research roadmap
● Conducting research and development using multi-sensory data
● Making scholarly contributions through research publications, and providing technical documentation of data-science projects Requirements and Skills
● Advanced degree (PhD or Masters) in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Mathematics or related areas.
● 2+ years of hands-on AI/ML experience (fresh PhD grads are encouraged to apply) in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Mathematics or related areas.
● A strong knowledge of NLP and/or computer vision with experience in deep learning (Transformers, RNNs, LSTM, CNN etc.)
● Experience in Transformer models such as GPT series, BERT, USE etc.
● Strong programming skills in Python and or R, Java, C, C++
● Experience using cloud computing for machine learning and deep-learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, etc.
● Experience in source management, code reviews, unit testing, and related modern software development methodologies
● Publication record in NLP, Machine Learning, Computer Vision or related areas is preferred.
● Hands-on skills in sourcing, cleaning, manipulating, analyzing, visualizing and modeling of real data ● Experience in educational applications is a plus but not necessary
● A passion for making sense of user behavior, using any available methods
● Creative problem-solver who is passionate about digging into complex problems and devising new approaches to reachresults
● Agile and innovative mindset
● Ability to take initiative