Senior Researcher, Natural Language Processing

Tencent International Service Pte. Ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Lightspeed Studios is seeking an NLP Research Engineer to advance Chinese word segmentation, POS tagging, sentence analysis, and named entity recognition within our game tech ecosystem.

You will handle text classification, sentiment analysis, data mining, text generation, and topic analysis, while refining algorithms to meet business needs and data realities in a fast-paced R&D environment.

Qualifications

• Familiar with NLP fundamentals and ML principles.
• Publication in NLP venues is a plus.
• Experience with word segmentation, POS tagging, entity recognition and sentence analysis is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop NLP solutions for Chinese word segmentation, POS tagging, sentence analysis and named entity recognition.
• Lead text classification, sentiment analysis, data mining, text generation and topic analysis.
• Improve existing NLP algorithms by aligning with business needs and data.
• Explore NLP techniques and deep learning applications in games.
• Keep up-to-date with academia and industry findings and apply them to projects.

Skills

NLP fundamentals

Statistical models

Machine learning

Programming

Big data

Tools

CRF

SVM

Word vectors

RNN

CNN

LSTM

GAN

Job description

Business Unit

LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS is made up of passionate players who advance the art & science of game development through great stories, great gameplay, and advanced technology. We are focused on bringing next generation experiences to gamers who want to enjoy them anywhere, anytime, across multiple genres and devices.

About the Hiring Team

Lightspeed Tech Center is a R&D department under Lightspeed Studios which develop PUBG Mobile and other high-quality games. Our Tech Center leads the research, exploration, and discovery of innovative technologies and provides technical services for all games during all phases of life cycle, including engine, audio, QA, AI, next generation game, technical cooperation, etc.

What the Role Entails

Responsible for NLP research and development including Chinese word segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, sentence analysis, and named entity recognition.

Responsible for text classification, sentiment analysis, data mining, text generation, topic analysis, label extraction, and other research and development job.

Optimize existing online algorithms, develop efficient and reliable NLP solutions by combining business needs and data.

Explore applications of NLP techniques and deep learning algorithms in games.

Follow the latest developments in academia and industry and quickly apply findings in your work.

Who We Look For

Familiar with NLP fundamentals, with a strong understanding of statistical models, related machine learning principles, and experience working on NLP related projects.

Proficient in at least one programming language, familiar with basic data structures and algorithms.

Experience in big data mining, knowledge-graph auto-making, and deep learning experience is preferred.

Familiar with word segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, entity recognition, sentence analysis, model pre-training. Experience in sentiment analysis, relationship extraction, and event extraction is preferred.

Publication of academic results in academic journals and conferences in NLP-related fields (such as: EMNLP, ACL) is preferred.

Familiar with CRF, SVM, and other classic machine learning algorithms and tools, word vectors, RNN, CNN, LSTM, GAN, and other deep learning experiences are preferred.

Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent

As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.