Senior Data Scientist: Visual Search & Semantic Retrieval

Talener; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 107,000; Part time

Job summary

Talener is recruiting a Data Scientist for a prestigious US news/media organization. The contract role is hybrid in New York City (3 days on-site: Tue-Thu) for six months with potential extension.

The ideal candidate has strong Python/PyTorch skills, production ML deployment, and deep experience with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, semantic and vector search, and NLP techniques applied to large visual datasets.

Qualifications

• Strong experience deploying ML models in production.
• Experience building search pipelines for large visual datasets.
• Background in semantic/vector/search-based retrieval.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

Semantic search

Vector search

Embeddings

Hybrid retrieval

Query understanding

Relevance tuning

Ranking algorithms

NLP techniques

Transformer models

Image/Video analysis

Education

Degree in CS/DS/STEM

Tools

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Job description

Talener is recruiting a Data Scientist for a prestigious US news/media organization. The contract role is hybrid in New York City (3 days on-site: Tue-Thu) for six months with potential extension.

The ideal candidate has strong Python/PyTorch skills, production ML deployment, and deep experience with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, semantic and vector search, and NLP techniques applied to large visual datasets.