SparkCognition catalyzes sustainable growth for our clients throughout the world with proven artificial intelligence (AI) systems, award-winning machine learning technology, and a multinational team of AI thought leaders. Our clients are trusted with advancing lives, infrastructure, sustainability, and financial systems across the globe. They partner with SparkCognition to understand their industry's most pressing challenges, analyze complex data, empower decision-making, and transform human and industrial productivity with scalable AI solutions to solve the problems that matter most. With our leading-edge artificial intelligence products and solutions, our clients can adapt to a rapidly changing digital landscape, accelerate their business strategies, and reduce environmental impact creating a better, smarter, and more sustainable world.
SparkCognition Government Systems is looking for innovative Machine Learning Engineer to join our team to help create the next generation of analytics and artificial intelligence solutions in the Natural Language processing field. At SparkCognition, you will immerse yourself in cutting-edge research and work with the latest technologies to deliver value to the cutting-edge Natural Language product, DeepNLP.
If you were working for us today, you would be:

• Collect and prepare data sets
• Develop new algorithms and approaches to various NLP problems
• Conduct quantitative experiments to characterize algorithms
• Integrate new technology into core applications

You may be a fit for our team if you have:

• Master's Degree or higher with a focus on NLP
• Experience in Python and NLP/ML toolkits (e.g. scikit-learn, SpaCy)
• Familiarity in applying deep learning techniques to text
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Independent thinking and desire to learn new techniques/technologies
• Experience with developing algorithms in a distributed environment (e.g. Dask, Hadoop, Spark)
• Capable of working with text in different languages
• Experience with building chat bots
• Experience with information retrieval and IR tools (e.g. SOLR)
• Must be eligible to hold a US government security clearance

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