(Senior) Data Scientist - Full Remote - Contractor

Talent 4.0 BVBA
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Europe
Experience
Lead / principal · 11+ years

Job description

Full remote (Senior) Data Scientist for one project at a European Institution in Belgium, developing and maintaining NLP, machine learning and AI software applications. Open to employees and freelancers based in Europe with a work permit.

At a glance

Employment
Employee or contractor
Work mode
Remote · Europe
Languages
English – fluent

What you'll do

  • Development and maintenance of software applications in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML) and/or Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Training of custom machine learning / deep learning models based on structured and unstructured data
  • Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
  • Follow studies and developments aiming at improving the quality of machine translation (MT) engines for each installed language pair
  • Interact with data stewards and other IT stakeholders to define the data rules
  • Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance
  • Data mining using state-of-the-art methods
  • Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
  • Design the IT architecture for solutions in the NLP / ML / AI fields, and coordinate its implementation considering master- and meta-data management concepts

What we're looking for

  • Master Degree in a related field with 11 years of professional experience in IT
  • +3 years of professional experience in the domain as a Data Scientist
  • Experience in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
  • Excellent knowledge of Perl, Python, Matlab, R and its NLP/ML libraries (SpaCy, NLTK, scikitlearn, pandas)
  • Good knowledge of SQL tooling (NoSQL DB, MongoDB, Hadoop, SQL)
  • Knowledge of query languages, such as SQL, Hive, Pig, etc and experience with information extraction
  • Knowledge of NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, etc
  • Knowledge of data visualisation tools, such as D3.js, GGplot, etc
  • Good knowledge of AWS and/or Azure
  • Good knowledge of Linux
  • Good knowledge of Unix and Bash
  • Excellent knowledge of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, Neural Network, and/or artificial intelligence frameworks
  • Knowledge in one of the following areas: predictive (forecasting, recommendation), prescriptive (simulation), sentiment analysis, topic detection, social media crawling and processing, plagiarism detection, trends/anomalies detection in datasets, recommendation systems
  • Experience in the field of corpus based linguistics
  • Experience with alignment models and classification methods
  • Good knowledge of natural language processing systems lifecycle and agile software development methodologies
  • Fluent in English
  • Candidates need to be based in Europe and have a work permit

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