Research Scientist

2 weeks ago

Carlsbad, United States Vertical Search Works Full time

Research Scientist

Position: Full time

Location: Carlsbad office

About Us:

NTENT provides a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), allowing industry partners to customize, localize and integrate Voice Assistant and Search technologies directly into their business-to-consumer offerings. NTENT utilizes a machine learning algorithmic approach to comprehend massive amounts of information across the web. Through the company's proprietary search engine, ontology and knowledge graph, NTENT makes it easier to decipher meaning, surfacing the most relevant answers, results, content and ads, via conversational interfaces or text.

We are a unique group of brilliant minds intent on discovering, learning and building. We work in a vibrant atmosphere, with an emphasis on personal and professional development. This is an opportunity to tackle complex problems usually reserved for a handful of large companies in the search industry.

About the Opportunity:

We are a dynamic company looking for our next great hire to join our team in Carlsbad, California.

We are looking for a Research Scientist to join our team and drive research and development efforts for our News Platform and systems that evaluate the quality of documents and detect misinformation.

Duties and Responsibilities:

* Partner with product managers, machine learning scientists and engineers to formalize appropriate research questions that are relevant to our News Platform.
* Conduct independent research, perform extensive literature reviews, sort through prior published work to find potential solutions.
* Design experiments and lead data collection efforts.
* Work with large amounts of text data and leverage statistical and machine learning methods.
* Communicate and transfer solutions to production together with scientists and engineers.
* Communicate ideas, methods, opportunities, and results to cross functional partners.

Skills and Qualifications:

* Graduate degree (PhD preferred) in Computer Science, Linguistics, Statistics, Computational Social Sciences or other quantitative field.
* 3+ years of professional experience or equivalent experience in a research lab. Recent PhD graduates are especially encouraged.
* Broad experience on with various applications of NLP (part-of-speech tagging, dependency parsing, entity recognition and extraction etc.)
* Broad experience in machine learning and statistical methods, in at least one of the following areas: experimental design, causal inference, machine learning, reinforcement learning, deep learning.
* End-to-end experience in research projects, including study design, simulation/testing, data cleaning, data analysis, and reporting.
* Proficient with Python or R.
* Experience with Spark, PySpark.
* Exceptional written, verbal, and visual communication.

The following experience is a plus:

* Experience in the news domain (fact checking, detecting misinformation etc.) and knowledge of journalistic principles highly desired.
* Experience in computational journalism highly desired.
* Publication track record is a big plus

The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, possess excellent communication skills (both oral and written) and be able to work independently. A keen interest in various aspects of language processing is essential in our multi-disciplinary team.

We offer a full comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental and vision. Employees receive a generous time off (PTO) plan and 13 holidays per year. We also offer 401(k) benefits, long term disability benefits and life insurance.

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