About company

Your main tasks will be:

• Manage a team of ML engineers and improve the architecture of ML services to achieve business goals;

• Develop and implement a strategy for the NLP direction;

• Break down business tasks into sub-tasks and determine the necessary resources for their end-to-end execution;

• Lead and oversee the following tasks:

• Create and integrate necessary ML models into the overall system;

• Test and evaluate the created solutions;

• Optimize model training;

• Improve the system of automated tests and criteria for evaluating new models;

• Collect and prepare data needed for model training.

What do they expect from you:

• Experience as an NLP Engineer in the past or present;

• Ability to fine-tune open LLMs, with experience in this or leading a team that does;

• Practical experience with basic NLP concepts (ngrams, skip-grams, tf-idf, etc.);

• Experience in developing components for dialogue systems, either directly or by leading a team working on this;

• Experience managing an ML team.

• Understanding of mathematical algorithms for machine learning, main types of models, and criteria for evaluating their performance;

• Practical experience in developing and deploying microservices;

• Proficiency in Python and machine learning libraries (Scikit-learn, Pandas, Matplotlib, Numpy, Scipy, Sklearn);

• Knowledge of the PyTorch Deep Learning framework;

• Confident use of OS Linux/Unix and version control systems like git;

• Ability to independently build a pipeline;

• Understanding of how ONNX works;

• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases;

• Experience fine-tuning GPT-like models;

• Experience using GloVe, ELMo, RNN, CNN, Transformer, BERT;

• Experience with virtualization technologies (Docker, etc.);

• Experience with deepspeed/Jax;

• Courses like ODS, MIPT+Huawei will be an advantage.

What do they offer:

• REMOTE OPPORTUNITY to work full time;

• Vacation 28 calendar days per year;

• 7 wellness days per year (time off) that can be used to deal with household issues, to lie down and recover without taking sick leave;

• Bonuses up to $5000 for recommending successful applicants for positions in the company;

• Full payment for professional training, international conferences and meetings;

• Corporate discount for English lessons;

• ​Health benefits. If you are not eligible for corporate medical insurance, the company will compensate you with up to $ 1,000 gross per year per employee, according to the paychecks. This can be spent on self-purchase of health insurance or on doctor’s fees for yourself and close relatives (spouse, children);

• Workplace organization. The company provides all employees with an equipped workplace and all the necessary equipment (table, armchair, wifi, etc.) in their offices or co-working locations. In the other locations, the company provides reimbursement of workplace costs up to $ 1000 gross once every 3 years, according to the paychecks. This money can be spent on the rent of the co-working room, on equipping the working place at home (desk, chair, Internet, etc.) during those 3 years;

• Internal gamified gratitude system: receive bonuses from colleagues and exchange them for time off, merch, team building activities, massage certificates, etc.