Senior Data Scientist & ML-NLP Engineer - Onsite

BC Forward; Addison (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

BCforward is seeking a Senior Data Scientist / ML-NLP Engineer to join its team and support the DCRS Inbound Correspondence function. The candidate will design, build, and maintain document capture and enterprise ML/NLP solutions using GenAI open-source models and OCR technologies.

The role requires strong machine learning, NLP, and software engineering experience, with a track record of delivering scalable, production-grade pipelines for large datasets and enterprise use cases.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a Data Scientist or in related roles.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Hands-on exposure to Gen AI open-source models.
• 5+ years of Python for building and deploying ML/NLP models.
• Experience setting up supervised and unsupervised ML/NLP models and pipelines.
• Experience with ML/NLP pipelines for large structured and unstructured datasets.
• 2+ years designing and developing enterprise-scale ML/NLP solutions such as NER, document classification, summarization, topic modeling, dialog systems, sentiment analysis, and OCR text processing.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain ML/NLP models for document capture and processing.
• Build supervised and unsupervised pipelines including data cleaning, analytics, feature creation, model selection, and ensemble methods.
• Implement performance metrics, model evaluation, and visualization for model monitoring.
• Engineer scalable solutions for large structured and unstructured datasets.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Apply Gen AI and open-source models where appropriate to enhance document intelligence.
• Leverage OCR technologies for text extraction and downstream NLP tasks.

Skills

Gen AI open-source models

Python

ML/NLP pipelines

Software development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

OCR products

Job description

BCforward is seeking a Senior Data Scientist / ML-NLP Engineer to join its team and support the DCRS Inbound Correspondence function. The candidate will design, build, and maintain document capture and enterprise ML/NLP solutions using GenAI open-source models and OCR technologies.

The role requires strong machine learning, NLP, and software engineering experience, with a track record of delivering scalable, production-grade pipelines for large datasets and enterprise use cases.