Relx
Senior Data Scientist II
Illinois · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$110k-$184kDetected 19 days ago
PythonJavaAlgorithmsSQLElasticsearchAWSMachine LearningDeep LearningTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnPandasNumPySparkData ScienceNLPLLMsMLOpsA/B TestingResearchLeadershipMentoring
About the role
- Are you excited to solve complex data science problems using NLP, machine learning, and large-scale data?
- About the Yoda Team The Yoda team is a small, focused division within LexisNexis responsible for managing core datasets related to people, organizations, and taxonomies.
- This role is ideal for someone who is versatile, collaborative, and excited to solve complex problems using NLP, machine learning, large language models, regression, classification, and information retrieval techniques.
Responsibilities
- Develop robust NLP-based models over large-scale corpora, including news, financial, legal, and business data.
- Partner with product leaders, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to apply data science solutions to real business problems.
Requirements
- Experience with NLP tools and methods such as OpenNLP, Stanford NLP, LDA, Gensim, spaCy, or similar frameworks.
- At least 5 years of recent coding experience using Python and/or Java or Scala.
- Experience designing, working with, and reasoning complex data models.
- Ability to work effectively on a small team and provide technical leadership or mentorship to junior team members.
Nice to have
- Experience with large language models and generative AI workflows.
- Experience with entity extraction, taxonomy management, knowledge graphs, or data enrichment.
- Experience working with large-scale legal, news, financial, business, or professional data.
- Familiarity with model evaluation, experimentation frameworks, MLOps practices, and production of ML monitoring.
- Ability to quickly evaluate new approaches and determine the right tool or model for a given business problem.
- Work in a Way That Works for You
- We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation.
- About the Business
Skills
- About our Team
- About the Yoda Team
- Evaluate state-of-the-art algorithms, models, APIs, and open-source tools, including BERT, ELMo, GPT-based models, and related technologies.
- Translate complex business requirements into actionable technical stories with practical estimates.
- Contribute to best practices for model development, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.
Compensation
- Home based-Illinois $110,100 - $183,500.
- If performed in Chicago, IL, the base pay range is $115,400 - $192,200.This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.
Benefits
- Solve challenging problems in natural language processing, machine learning, and information retrieval, including topical classification, sentiment analysis, entity extraction, and user intent detection.
- Research, build, train, evaluate, and deploy machine learning models using both traditional and deep learning techniques.
- Design and improve scalable NLP and machine learning pipelines.
- We are delighted to offer country specific benefits.
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Company info
- Support and mentor junior team members while contributing as part of a small, collaborative team.
Equal opportunity
- qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Visa & Work Authorization
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