Research Scientist/ML developer

About the Position

We are looking for a talented, experienced, and highly-motivated machine learning developer/researcher with expertise in natural language processing, speech recognition, and/or computer vision to join our engineering team in one of our Lisbon, Toronto, or Silicon Valley offices.

ML developers at Talka lead efforts in developing cutting-edge algorithmic solutions to improve communication between people. Your goal is to devise solutions that serve the short-term needs of our clients while also conducting research to better understand human communication. You will work closely with our frontend and backend teams to deploy your models into production. While currently, our company does not conduct research for academic purposes, such as submitting papers to peer-reviewed conferences or journals, our goal is to have an applied research department within 2 years.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve our current models on the modalities of text, audio, and video;
• Interpret, synthesize, and analyze data using scientific or statistical techniques;
• Work with a team of annotators to improve their efficiency;
• Work with a team of frontend and backend engineers to deploy our models;
• Identify and understand business problems and propose corresponding ML solutions;
• Quickly analyze and come up with solutions to ML-related problems;
• Mentor ML interns and junior researchers.

Requirements

• A master's or Ph.D. degree in computer science or a relevant area;
• Solid understanding of machine learning;
• Solid understanding of one or more of the following areas: natural language processing, speech recognition/audio processing, computer vision, information retrieval, and active learning;
• A solid publication record in top machine learning conferences or journals, and/or other measures of research output (e.g., GitHub projects);
• Excellent Python skills;
• Experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow;
• Great communication skills;
• Proven ability to deliver quality code within budget and time constraints.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in Lisbon, Toronto, Silicon Valley, or remotely
• Collaborative and innovative work environment

About the Company

Talka is a leading company in the field of communication technology, dedicated to improving how people communicate. Our team is passionate about developing cutting-edge solutions that make a real difference in people's lives.

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Thank you for your interest in joining our team. Please submit your application with the required information below.

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