Machine Learning / NLP Engineer

Up to 150K

Full remote (Spain)

FinTech

 

Who they are:

The company is a fintech platform backed by prominent leaders in the financial industry, such as JP Morgan. The company´s mission is to revolutionise wealth management by delivering AI-driven, personalised experiences that enhance financial outcomes. The company is applying the same level of personalization seen in entertainment (movies, music, etc.) to the financial world, but with a focus on improving wealth management and investment results.

The company leverages design principles and behavioural science to build engaging user experiences through software and APIs. Using investment algorithms and intelligence, the company delivers tailored financial advice and investment solutions to meet individual needs across its marketplace and advisory services.

Their Values:

• Push Your Limits: The company believes in personal growth, stepping out of comfort zones, and working in zones of genius. Integrity, self-awareness, and a commitment to excellence drive the company’s success.
• Transparent Communication: The company values open, honest communication. The company engages in authentic dialogue to foster shared understanding, and while ideas may be challenged, full commitment is given once a decision is made.
• Team Wins Together: Collaboration is at the heart of the company’s culture. Team members take full ownership of their work, inspire each other, and operate as a unified team to achieve shared success.

Role Responsibilities:

• Lead research and innovation initiatives to achieve impactful results.
• Stay informed on emerging trends in natural language understanding (NLU) and apply these to conversational AI projects.
• Guide and mentor team members during experimentation phases, helping them focus efforts.
• Develop ideas for enhancing NLU capabilities by leveraging historical conversational data and transfer learning.
• Benchmark prototypes against data to ensure they meet precision requirements.
• Analyze and troubleshoot algorithmic failures across different environments.
• Anticipate future data needs and propose creative solutions for data generation.
• Collaborate with DevOps, backend, and frontend teams to scale models across various domains.
• Publish and present research in top-tier journals and at conferences.

Qualifications:

• Experience in training and fine-tuning machine learning models on extensive text datasets.
• Strong computer science foundation with 3+ years of software development experience.
• Proven ability to think big and simplify solutions while navigating ambiguity.
• Demonstrated experience in natural language processing (NLP) or similar fields.
• In-depth knowledge of NLP techniques, including semantic extraction, data modeling, and structure.
• Proficiency with text representation techniques, algorithms, and statistics.
• Familiarity with programming languages like Python, R, and Java.
• Experience with machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, Keras, and PyTorch.
• Strong coding and software architecture design skills.
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities, communication skills, and analytical thinking.
• Proven experience in one or more areas, including information retrieval, machine comprehension, entity recognition, text classification, semantic frame parsing, or machine translation.
• Publications, patents, or presentations at leading conferences are a plus.

Work Experience: 4+ years

Location: Full Remote in Spain

The company is an equal opportunity employer and values the diverse skills and perspectives that come from having a varied workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.