Machine Learning Engineer

• Your responsibilities:
• Build, improve and extend NLP capabilities
• Research and evaluate different approaches to NLP problems
• Must be able to write code that is well designed, produce deliverable results
• Write code that scales and can be deployed to production

• Fundamentals of statistical methods is a must
• Experience in named entity recognition, POS Tagging, Lemmatization, vector representations of textual data and neural networks - RNN, LSTM
• A solid foundation in Python, data structures, algorithms, and general software development skills.
• Ability to apply machine learning to problems that deal with language
• Engineering ability to build robustly scalable pipelines
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team with a strong product focus

• Building out and manage a young data science vertical within the organization

• Provide technical leadership in the areas of machine learning, analytics, and data sciences

• Work with the team and create a roadmap to solve the company’s requirements by solving data-mining, analytics, and ML problems by Identifying business problems that could be solved using Data Science and scoping it out end to end.

• Solve business problems by applying advanced Machine Learning algorithms and complex statistical models on large volumes of data.

• Develop heuristics, algorithms, and models to deanonymize entities on public blockchains

• Data Mining - Extend the organization’s proprietary dataset by introducing new data collection methods and by identifying new data sources.

• Keep track of the latest trends in cryptocurrency usage on open-web and dark-web and develop counter-measures to defeat concealment techniques used by criminal actors.

• Develop in-house algorithms to generate risk scores for blockchain transactions.

• Work with data engineers to implement the results of your work.

• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.

• Build, scale and deploy holistic data science products after successful prototyping.

• Clearly articulate and present recommendations to business partners, and influence future plans based on insights.

• >8+ years of relevant experience as a Data Scientist or Analyst. A few years of work experience solving NLP problems or other ML problems is a plus

• Must have previously managed a team of at least 5 data scientists or analysts or demonstrate that they have prior experience in scaling a data science function from the ground 

• Good understanding of python, bash scripting, and basic cloud platform skills (on GCP or AWS)

• Excellent communication skills and analytical skills

• Work closely with the Founders in helping grow the organization to the next level alongside some of the best and brightest talents around you

• An excellent culture, we encourage collaboration, growth, and learning amongst the team

• Competitive salary and equity

• An autonomous and flexible role where you will be trusted with key tasks.

• An opportunity to have a real impact and be part of a company with purpose.

Introduction

Synapsica is a growth stage HealthTech startup founded by alumni from IIT Kharagpur, AIIMS New Delhi, and IIM Ahmedabad. We believe healthcare needs to be transparent and objective, while being affordable. Every patient has the right to know exactly what is happening in their bodies and they don’t have to rely on cryptic 2 liners given to them as diagnosis. Towards this aim, we are building an artificial intelligence enabled cloud based platform to analyse medical images and create v2.0 of advanced radiology reporting. We are backed by YCombinator and other investors from India, US and Japan. We are proud to have GE, AIIMS, and the Spinal Kinetics as our partners.

Your Roles and Responsibilities

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:

• Strong problem-solving ability
• Prior experience with Python, cuDNN, Tensorflow, PyTorch, Keras, Caffe (or similar Deep Learning frameworks). 
• Extensive understanding of computer vision/image processing applications like object classification, segmentation, object detection etc 
• Ability to write custom Convolutional Neural Network Architecture in Pytorch (or similar)
• Experience of GPU/DSP/other Multi-core architecture programming
• Effective communication with other project members and project stakeholders
• Detail-oriented, eager to learn, acquire new skills
• Prior Project Management and Team Leadership experience
• Ability to plan work and meet deadlines
• End to end deployment of deep learning models.

We’re looking to hire someone to help scale Machine Learning and NLP efforts at Episource. You’ll work with the team that develops the models powering Episource’s product focused on NLP driven medical coding. Some of the problems include improving our ICD code recommendations , clinical named entity recognition and information extraction from clinical notes.

This is a role for highly technical machine learning & data engineers who combine outstanding oral and written communication skills, and the ability to code up prototypes and productionalize using a large range of tools, algorithms, and languages. Most importantly they need to have the ability to autonomously plan and organize their work assignments based on high-level team goals.

You will be responsible for setting an agenda to develop and ship machine learning models that positively impact the business, working with partners across the company including operations and engineering. You will use research results to shape strategy for the company, and help build a foundation of tools and practices used by quantitative staff across the company.

What you will achieve:

• Define the research vision for data science, and oversee planning, staffing, and prioritization to make sure the team is advancing that roadmap

• Invest in your team’s skills, tools, and processes to improve their velocity, including working with engineering counterparts to shape the roadmap for machine learning needs

• Hire, retain, and develop talented and diverse staff through ownership of our data science hiring processes, brand, and functional leadership of data scientists

• Evangelise machine learning and AI internally and externally, including attending conferences and being a thought leader in the space

• Partner with the executive team and other business leaders to deliver cross-functional research work and models

Required Skills:

• Strong background in classical machine learning and machine learning deployments is a must and preferably with 4-8 years of experience

• Knowledge of deep learning & NLP

• Hands-on experience in TensorFlow/PyTorch, Scikit-Learn, Python, Apache Spark & Big Data platforms to manipulate large-scale structured and unstructured datasets.

• Experience with GPU computing is a plus.

• Professional experience as a data science leader, setting the vision for how to most effectively use data in your organization. This could be through technical leadership with ownership over a research agenda, or developing a team as a personnel manager in a new area at a larger company.

• Expert-level experience with a wide range of quantitative methods that can be applied to business problems.

• Evidence you’ve successfully been able to scope, deliver and sell your own research in a way that shifts the agenda of a large organization.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills on quantitative topics for a variety of audiences: product managers, designers, engineers, and business leaders.

• Fluent in data fundamentals: SQL, data manipulation using a procedural language, statistics, experimentation, and modeling

Qualifications

• Professional experience as a data science leader, setting the vision for how to most effectively use data in your organization

• Expert-level experience with machine learning that can be applied to business problems

• Evidence you’ve successfully been able to scope, deliver and sell your own work in a way that shifts the agenda of a large organization

• Fluent in data fundamentals: SQL, data manipulation using a procedural language, statistics, experimentation, and modeling

• Degree in a field that has very applicable use of data science / statistics techniques (e.g. statistics, applied math, computer science, OR a science field with direct statistics application)

• 5+ years of industry experience in data science and machine learning, preferably at a software product company

• 3+ years of experience managing data science teams, incl. managing/grooming managers beneath you

• 3+ years of experience partnering with executive staff on data topics