Associate Director - NLP

S&P Global; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 8,00,000 - 12,00,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial analytics firm in Hyderabad is seeking a Natural Language Processing Engineer to enhance NLP products and develop new applications. The ideal candidate will work on designing NLP solutions, using advanced text representation techniques, and deploying models at scale. Required skills include experience in NLP, Python, and Java, along with a degree in a relevant field. This position offers competitive benefits focused on health, wellness, and continuous learning.

Benefits

Health care coverage

Generous time off

Access to learning resources

Financial wellness programs

Family benefits

Retail discounts and incentives

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an NLP Engineer or similar role.
• Understanding of text representation and semantic extraction techniques.
• Ability to design software architecture effectively.

Responsibilities

• Study and transform data science prototypes.
• Design NLP applications and select appropriate datasets.
• Train models and run evaluation experiments.

Skills

NLP techniques for text representation

Python

Java

Analytical problem-solving

Statistical analysis

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Computational Linguistics

Tools

Keras

PyTorch

scikit-learn

Job description

About the Role:

The Foreseer team delivers digital transformation solutions at SPGMI for information extraction from structures and semi structured documents and websites. Foreseer is a human in the loop platform that combines latest AI/ML advances with a state-of-the-art UI for delivering multiple projects, all powered by a core distributed, cloud native, auto scalable framework. Team comprises of experts in Java and Python language and ML engineers.

What’s in for you

Designing and developing NLP applications, using effective text representation techniques and classification/similarity algorithms, training, evaluating and deploying models. We are looking for a Natural Language Processing Engineer to help us improve our NLP products and create new NLP applications.

Responsibilities

• Study and transform data science prototypes
• Design NLP applications
• Select appropriate annotated datasets for Supervised Learning methods
• Use effective text representations to transform natural language into useful features
• Find and implement the right algorithms and tools for NLP tasks
• Develop NLP systems according to requirements
• Train the developed model and run evaluation experiments
• Integrate the models in application flow and deploy at scale
• Perform statistical analysis of results and refine models
• Extend ML libraries and frameworks to apply in NLP tasks
• Remain updated in the rapidly changing field of machine learning

Requirements and skills

• Proven experience as an NLP Engineer or similar role
• Understanding of NLP techniques for text representation, semantic extraction techniques, data structures and modeling
• Ability to effectively design software architecture
• Deep understanding of text representation techniques (such as n-grams, bag of words, sentiment analysis etc), statistics and classification algorithms
• Knowledge of Python and Java
• Ability to write robust and testable code
• Good to have - Experience with machine learning frameworks (like Keras or PyTorch) and libraries (like scikit-learn)
• Strong communication skills
• An analytical mind with problem-solving abilities
• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Computational Linguistics or similar field

Benefits

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.