Data Science Team Lead - NLP Team - UK

Remote
Whitehall, London SW1A 2DD, UK
9 months ago

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✅The Role

AI team is responsible for researching, designing, implementing and optimizing cutting edge data science solutions in fields like image tech, NLP or fraud. We’re looking at different methodologies/models and validate them to find the most promising solution to our actual problems. As a data scientist team lead you will be managing the projects of the NLP team in different products lines/business area. As a lead you’ll be responsible of the research & implementation of the agreed projects, the timely delivery, the clear communication and alignment. The projects are usually based on the following fields: LLMs, deep learning NLP, traditional ML scoring models and NLP related search algorithms.

 

✅Responsibilities and Duties

  • Lead a team of 3-4 data scientists and actively manage R&D projects on the roadmap
  • Proactively engage stakeholders, communicate with product and ops representatives
  • Follow agile practices and facilitate team events, like knowledge sharing, code review and brainstorming sessions
  • Try different SOTA architectures and models to achieve best performance both in processing speed and accuracy
  • Work closely with subject matter experts to validate results and share knowledge about the used methodology
  • Take care of the continuously increasing training/test datasets, verify consistency, offer solution for revisiting labeling issues
  • Think creatively about the implemented solutions, advise new features or tools, innovate

 

✅About You

  • You are excited about being a data science team lead and interested to keep track the latest advancements in the field
  • Have excellent technical skills to apply new methodologies to make more accurate / efficient solutions
  • Strong desire to always learn new technologies, methodologies, and tools
  • Ability to manage a geographically distributed team
  • Able to effectively prioritize work in a highly dynamic work environment
  • Ability to proactively reach out and facilitate communications
  • Ability to work through problems and figure out next steps
  • Open-minded to different ways of accomplishing tasks

 

 

✅Essential

  • PhD or MSc degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence or related field
  • 8+ years relevant industry experience in researching/building data science applications
  • 2+ years relevant experience in leading a small team of data scientists
  • Hands-on development experiment with LLMs, deep learning NLP models and traditional ML techniques
  • Experience with GPU backed modeling/inference
  • Proficient programming skills in a high-level DS languages (python, R)
  • Experience with working in cloud architectures (AWS, GCP, Kaggle, etc. )
  • Knowledge of relational databases, noSQL, memory database technologies, graph processing (Elastic Search, MongoDB, Redis)
  • Broader knowledge of large dataset processing pipelines and distributed computing architectures (Apache Beam/Airflow, Spark/Hadoop architectures)