The world's largest group of social discovery companies which unites more than 50 brands. For more than 20 years, they have been creating premium international dating services and social discovery apps with a focus on video streaming, AI technologies, entertainment, and game mechanics. The products are already used by more than 500 million users in 150 countries around the world.
They solve the problem of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection with the help of digital reality.
Their digital nomad team of more than 800 professionals ****works all over the world. Their international team of like-minded people and professionals solves ambitious daily tasks and creates truly global products. They value focusing on results, a proactive approach, and they are always looking for new and unconventional ideas.
Their teams of digital nomads live and work remotely from Cyprus, Malta, the USA, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Australia, Poland, Israel, Türkiye, Latvia and many others.
The role involves working with global teams.

We are looking for a Team Lead/Principal NLP Engineer to join one of our investment products in the Conversational AI field.
Our product consists of virtual partners for interactive communication and flirting. These are customizable characters that users can interact with on any topic, including the most intimate ones, using text, voice messages, photos, and videos. Full confidentiality is our top priority.
We aim to improve the quality of communication between bots and users. The main goal is to optimize the relevance and engagement of dialogues, as well as to increase the average transaction value.
Your main tasks will be:

• Develop and enhance the architecture of ML services to achieve high performance;
• Set up model training processes: accelerating language models, alignment, and improving bot memory;
• Collect and prepare data for training models;
• Participate in the deployment and implementation of ML solutions;
• Act as the Head of AI when needed: manage processes, organize team workflows, and interact with senior management.

We expect from you:

• Practical experience in implementing complex NLP projects;
• Knowledge of mathematical algorithms for ML, key model types, and their evaluation criteria;
• Extensive experience in NLP: LLM, DPO, RLHF, Pretraining, Finetuning, LoRA;
• Ability to build pipelines independently;
• Excellent knowledge of Python and popular libraries (Scikit-learn, Pandas, Matplotlib, Numpy, Scipy);
• Experience working with PyTorch and Transformers;
• Proficient in Linux/Unix and Git;
• Knowledge of CV-related topics is a strong plus (e.g., generative models: diffusion, text-to-image, text-to-video).

• REMOTE OPPORTUNITY to work full time;
• 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 up to $1000 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 the locations where we have offices or co-working. 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.