Director of Machine Learning

Company Overview:

At Codvo, software and people transformations go hand-in-hand. We are a global empathyled technology services company. Product innovation and mature software engineering are part of our core DNA. Respect, Fairness, Growth, Agility, and Inclusiveness are the core values that we aspire to live by each day. We continue to expand our digital strategy, design, architecture, and product management capabilities to offer expertise, outside-the-box thinking, and measurable results.

Required Skills (Technical):

•  Advanced knowledge of statistical techniques, NLP, machine learning algorithms and deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow, Theano, Kera’s, Pytorch.
•  Proficiency with modern statistical modelling (regression, boosting trees, random forests, etc.), machine learning (text mining, neural network, NLP, etc.), optimization (linear optimization, nonlinear optimization, stochastic optimization, etc.) methodologies.
• Building complex predictive models using ML and DL techniques with production quality code and jointly own complex data science workflows with the Data Engineering team.
• Familiarity with modern data analytics architecture and data engineering technologies (SQL and No-SQL databases).
• Knowledge of REST APIs and Web Services
• Experience with Python, R, sh/bash

Required Skills (Non-Technical):

• Fluent in English Communication (Spoken and verbal)
• Should be a team player
• Should have a learning aptitude
• Detail-oriented, analytically.
• Extremely organized with strong time-management skills
• Problem Solving & Critical Thinking

Key deliverables for the Data Science Engineer would be to help us discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data, and help us make smarter decisions to deliver even better products. Your primary focus will be on applying data mining techniques, doing statistical analysis, and building high-quality prediction systems integrated with our products.

What will you do?

• You will be building and deploying ML models to solve specific business problems related to NLP, computer vision, and fraud detection.
• You will be constantly assessing and improving the model using techniques like Transfer learning
• You will identify valuable data sources and automate collection processes along with undertaking pre-processing of structured and unstructured data
• You will own the complete ML pipeline - data gathering/labeling, cleaning, storage, modeling, training/testing, and deployment.
• Assessing the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques.
• Building predictive models and machine-learning algorithms to apply to data sets.
• Coordinate with different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes.
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• Presenting information using data visualization techniques and proposing solutions and strategies to business challenges

We would love to hear from you if :

• You have 2+ years of experience as a software engineer at a SaaS or technology company
• Demonstrable hands-on programming experience with Python/R Data Science Stack
• Ability to design and implement workflows of Linear and Logistic Regression, Ensemble Models (Random Forest, Boosting) using R/Python
• Familiarity with Big Data Platforms (Databricks, Hadoop, Hive), AWS Services (AWS, Sagemaker, IAM, S3, Lambda Functions, Redshift, Elasticsearch)
• Experience in Probability and Statistics, ability to use ideas of Data Distributions, Hypothesis Testing and other Statistical Tests.
• Demonstrable competency in Data Visualisation using the Python/R Data Science Stack.
• Preferable Experience Experienced in web crawling and data scraping
• Strong experience in NLP. Worked on libraries such as NLTK, Spacy, Pattern, Gensim etc.
• Experience with text mining, pattern matching and fuzzy matching

• Brand new Macbook
• Stock Options
• Health Insurance
• Unlimited Sick Leaves
• Passion Fund (Invest in yourself or your passion project)
• Wind Down

The role involves computer vision tasks including development, customization and training of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs); application of ML techniques (SVM, regression, clustering etc. ) and traditional Image Processing (OpenCV etc. ). The role is research focused and would involve going through and implementing existing research papers, deep dive of problem analysis, generating new ideas, automating and optimizing key processes.

Requirements:

• 2 - 4 years of relevant experience in solving complex real-world problems at scale via deep learning, computer vision or AI
• Python, cuDNN, Tensorflow/PyTorch/Keras (or similar Deep Learning frameworks).
• CNNs, RNNs, Transfer learning (for image classification, segmentation, object detection etc).
• Image Processing techniques using OpenCV or other white-box image feature extraction algorithms.
• End to end deployment of deep learning models.

Responsibilities: 

• Improve robustness of Leena AI current NLP stack 
• Increase zero shot learning capability of Leena AI current NLP stack 
• Opportunity to add/build new NLP architectures based on requirements 
• Manage End to End lifecycle of the data in the system till it achieves more than 90% accuracy 
• Manage a NLP team 

Page BreakRequirements: 

• Strong understanding of linear algebra, optimisation, probability, statistics 
• Experience in the data science methodology from exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, model selection, deployment of the model at scale and model evaluation 
• Experience in deploying NLP architectures in production 
• Understanding of latest NLP architectures like transformers is good to have 
• Experience in adversarial attacks/robustness of DNN is good to have 
• Experience with Python Web Framework (Django), Analytics and Machine Learning frameworks like Tensorflow/Keras/Pytorch.