NLP & ML Engineer — Advanced Question Answering

Hireup.net; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Hireup.net in Mountain View, California is seeking a specialist in NLP technology to enhance and develop core DeepQA systems. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in both statistical and symbolic natural language processing, solid algorithmic skills in Java, and a PhD or extensive relevant experience.

This role involves tuning existing software, creating new NLP technologies, and improving question answering performance through advanced machine learning techniques and data processing.

Qualifications

• PhD or 5 years of relevant experience in NLP.
• Experience in running accuracy experiments.
• Ability to work with large, complex software systems.

Responsibilities

• Understand and diagnose existing question answering software.
• Extend technology for new use cases.
• Develop new NLP and machine learning technology.
• Create processes to update NLP models.
• Use field data to improve performance.

Skills

Statistical NLP experience

Algorithmic skills (Java)

Analytical skills

Machine learning background

NLP knowledge engineering

Education

PhD or significant research experience

Tools

UIMA

Prolog

C++

Python/Perl

Unix

Job description

Hireup.net in Mountain View, California is seeking a specialist in NLP technology to enhance and develop core DeepQA systems. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in both statistical and symbolic natural language processing, solid algorithmic skills in Java, and a PhD or extensive relevant experience.

This role involves tuning existing software, creating new NLP technologies, and improving question answering performance through advanced machine learning techniques and data processing.