NLP/ML Scientist (On‑Site) – Moscow, ID

Lightcast; Moscow (ID); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Lightcast, based in Moscow, Idaho, is seeking an Associate NLP / Machine Learning Scientist to join our AI/ML Lab and develop NLP models for large-scale labor market data. You will collaborate with senior scientists and engineers to transform unstructured data into structured labor market intelligence.

Responsibilities include building models for classification, information extraction, entity normalization, and semantic matching, training transformer-based and embedding models, and exploring

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, machine learning, NLP, data science, or a related field.
• Strong foundation in machine learning, natural language processing, and deep learning.
• Experience using Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch, Hugging Face, or scikit-learn.
• Familiarity with transformers, embeddings, classification, information extraction, or entity normalization.
• Experience training and evaluating machine learning models, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to collaborate and learn quickly in research and production environments.
• Internship, academic, or professional experience building NLP or machine learning models.
• Familiarity with large language models, fine-tuning, LoRA, PEFT, or prompt engineering.
• Exposure to multilingual NLP, semantic search, retrieval, or entity linking.
• Familiarity with model optimization techniques such as quantization or distillation.
• Experience with AWS, SageMaker, Docker, MLflow, or similar machine learning tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve NLP models for classification, extraction, normalization, entity linking, and semantic matching.
• Train and evaluate transformer-based and embedding-based models using architectures such as BERT, DeBERTa, ModernBERT, and Sentence Transformers.
• Support experimentation with LLMs and foundation models, including prompt-based approaches and fine-tuning techniques.
• Perform model evaluation, error analysis, and data analysis to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Help optimize models for production with a focus on accuracy, latency, throughput, and cost.
• Build and maintain reproducible training and evaluation pipelines.
• Work with multilingual labor market data and support cross-lingual model development.
• Collaborate with senior scientists, ML engineers, and data engineers to productionize models.
• Stay current with advances in NLP, LLMs, embeddings, and machine learning.

Skills

Python programming

NLP fundamentals

Deep learning

Transformers

Information extraction

Entity normalization

Multilingual NLP

Prompt engineering

LLMs

Model evaluation

NLP model development

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/ML/NLP/Data Science

Tools

PyTorch

Hugging Face

scikit-learn

Docker

MLflow

SageMaker

AWS

Job description

Lightcast, based in Moscow, Idaho, is seeking an Associate NLP / Machine Learning Scientist to join our AI/ML Lab and develop NLP models for large-scale labor market data. You will collaborate with senior scientists and engineers to transform unstructured data into structured labor market intelligence.

Responsibilities include building models for classification, information extraction, entity normalization, and semantic matching, training transformer-based and embedding models, and exploring