Scientist - Natural Language Processing Engineer

Who are we?

https://www.ynos.in/" target="_blank">YNOS is a next-generation funded startup founded by IIT Madras faculty and incubated at IIT Madras Incubation Cell. It is a digital platform for Entrepreneurs, Investors, Innovators and Eco-system enablers, providing actionable insights on the startup and investment landscape in India. We are passionate about solving tough problems using technology and data, making a difference

The Opening
We are presently seeking for our next enthusiastic, talented, and driven Python Backend Engineer to start right away. We'd want you to

• Be excited about building a next-generation intelligence platform
• Possess a can-do attitude and be open to new challenges
• Value working with a great team - self-assured, creative, and insightful individuals who work together to achieve amazing things
• Be willing to explore, learn, and contribute new ideas to the platform, thereby improving it
• Be high on self-belief and enthusiasm to work in a startup culture - small team, fast-paced work environment

If this is you, we'd love to hear from you!

As the Python Backend Engineer in https://www.ynos.in/" target="_blank">YNOS, you will

• Create reusable optimised code and libraries
• Deploy task management systems and automate routine tasks
• Build performant apps that adhere to the best practices, therefore increasing latency, performance, and scalability
• Improve the existing codebase while reducing technical debt
• Take charge of all elements of the application, including architecture, quality, and efficiency

Requirements

• Proficient understanding of Python language
• Expertise in developing web apps and APIs using Python frameworks like Flask with an overall grasp of client-server interactions
• Familiarity with task management systems and process automation
• Comfortable with using Command Line and Linux systems
• Experience and understanding of version control systems like git, svn, etc
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases such as MongoDB

Good to have

• Expertise in other backend frameworks viz. Django, NodeJS, Go, Rust etc
• Knowledge of data-modelling, data-wrangling & data-mining techniques
• Experience with data visualisation tools & libraries such as Plotly, Seaborn etc
• Exposure to Statistical and Machine Learning (ML) techniques, particularly in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Familiarity with front-end tools & frameworks such as HTML, CSS, JS, React, Vue, and others

Work location, Job type & Salary

• Our office is located at https://respark.iitm.ac.in/" target="_blank">IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, surrounded by the beautiful IITM Campus!
• This is a full-time position and we’d like you to relocate to Chennai
• Expected salary range ₹6L - ₹8L per annum

 

PYTHON, SQL, TensorFlow, NumPy, SciPy, Pandas

Job Description :

- Developing chatbots and voice assistants on various platforms for diverse business use-cases

- Work on a chatbot framework/architecture using an open-source tool or library

- Implement Natural Language Processing (NLP) for chatbots

- Integration of chatbots with Management Dashboards and CRMs

- Resolve complex technical design issues by analyzing the logs, debugging code, and identifying technical issues/challenges/bugs in the process

- Deploy applications using CI/CD tools

- Designing and building highly scalable AI and ML solutions

- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

- Open-minded, flexible, and willing to adapt to changing situations

- Ability to work independently as well as on a team and learn from colleagues

- High adaptability in a dynamic start-up environment.

- Experience with bot multi-lingual utilization (preferred)

- Experience with bot human escalation

- Ability to optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability

- Come up with new approaches and ideas to improve the current performance of Chatbots across multiple domains and build a highly personalized user experience.

QUALIFICATIONS : B. Tech/ B.E. /M. Tech or a related technical discipline from reputed universities

SKILLS REQUIRED :

- Minimum 3+ years- of experience in Chatbot Development using the Rasa open-source framework.

- Hands-on experience building and deploying chatbots.

- Experience in Conversational AI platforms for enterprises using ML and Deep Learning.

- Experience with both text to speech and vice versa transformation incorporation.

- Should have a good understanding of various Chatbot frameworks/platforms/libraries.

- Build and evolve/train the NLP platform from natural language text data being gathered from users on a daily basis.

- Code using primarily Python.

- Experience with bots for platforms like Facebook Messenger, Slack, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc.

- Knowledge of digital assistants such as Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, etc.

- Experience in applying different NLP techniques to problems such as text. classification, text summarization, question & answering, information retrieval, knowledge extraction, and conversational bots design potentially with both traditional & Deep Learning

- Techniques - NLP Skills/Tools: NLP, HMM, MEMM, P/LSA, CRF, LDA, Semantic Hashing, Word2Vec, Seq2Seq, spaCy, Nltk, Gensim, Core NLP, NLU, NLG, etc.

- Should be familiar with these terms: Tokenization, N-Grams, Stemmers, lemmatization, Part of speech tagging, entity resolution, ontology, lexicology, phonetics, intents, entities, and context.

- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL Databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, PostgreSQL

- Experience with working on public cloud services such as Digital Ocean, AWS, Azure, or GCP.

- Knowledge of Linux shell commands.

- Integration with Chat/Social software like Facebook Messenger, Twitter, SMS.

- Integration with Enterprise systems like Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Salesforce, Zendesk, Zoho, etc.

MUST HAVE :

- Strong foundation in the python programming language.

- Experience with various chatbot frameworks especially Rasa and Dialogflow.

- Strong understanding of other AI tools and applications like TensorFlow, Spacy, and Google Cloud ML is a BIG plus.

- Experience with RESTful services.

- Good understanding of HTTPS and Enterprise security.

Developing chatbots and voice assistants on various platforms for diverse business use-cases

- Work on a chatbot framework/architecture using an open-source tool or library

- Implement Natural Language Processing (NLP) for chatbots

- Integration of chatbots with Management Dashboards and CRMs

- Resolve complex technical design issues by analyzing the logs, debugging code, and identifying technical issues/challenges/bugs in the process

- Deploy applications using CI/CD tools

- Designing and building highly scalable AI and ML solutions

- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

- Open-minded, flexible, and willing to adapt to changing situations

- Ability to work independently as well as on a team and learn from colleagues

- High adaptability in a dynamic start-up environment.

- Experience with bot multi-lingual utilization (preferred)

- Experience with bot human escalation

- Ability to optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability

- Come up with new approaches and ideas to improve the current performance of Chatbots across multiple domains and build a highly personalized user experience.

QUALIFICATIONS : B. Tech/ B.E. /M. Tech or a related technical discipline from reputed universities

SKILLS REQUIRED :

- Minimum 3+ years- of experience in Chatbot Development using the Rasa open-source framework.

- Hands-on experience building and deploying chatbots.

- Experience in Conversational AI platforms for enterprises using ML and Deep Learning.

- Experience with both text to speech and vice versa transformation incorporation.

- Should have a good understanding of various Chatbot frameworks/platforms/libraries.

- Build and evolve/train the NLP platform from natural language text data being gathered from users on a daily basis.

- Code using primarily Python.

- Experience with bots for platforms like Facebook Messenger, Slack, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc.

- Knowledge of digital assistants such as Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, etc.

- Experience in applying different NLP techniques to problems such as text. classification, text summarization, question & answering, information retrieval, knowledge extraction, and conversational bots design potentially with both traditional & Deep Learning

- Techniques - NLP Skills/Tools: NLP, HMM, MEMM, P/LSA, CRF, LDA, Semantic Hashing, Word2Vec, Seq2Seq, spaCy, Nltk, Gensim, Core NLP, NLU, NLG, etc.

- Should be familiar with these terms: Tokenization, N-Grams, Stemmers, lemmatization, Part of speech tagging, entity resolution, ontology, lexicology, phonetics, intents, entities, and context.

- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL Databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, PostgreSQL

- Experience with working on public cloud services such as Digital Ocean, AWS, Azure, or GCP.

- Knowledge of Linux shell commands.

- Integration with Chat/Social software like Facebook Messenger, Twitter, SMS.

- Integration with Enterprise systems like Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Salesforce, Zendesk, Zoho, etc.

MUST HAVE :

- Strong foundation in the python programming language.

- Experience with various chatbot frameworks especially Rasa and Dialogflow.

- Strong understanding of other AI tools and applications like TensorFlow, Spacy, and Google Cloud ML is a BIG plus.

- Experience with RESTful services.

- Good understanding of HTTPS and Enterprise security.

Job Type: Full-time

CTC Offering : 3.6L PA to 6L PA

 

Job Location: Remote for 6-9 months due to the pandemic, then Mumbai, Maharashtra

 

Required experience:

• Minimum 1.5 to 2 year of experience in Web & Backend Development using Python with experience in some form of Machine Learning ML Algorithms

 

Overview

We are looking for Python developers with a strong understanding of object orientation and experience in web and backend development. Experience with Analytical algorithms and mathematical calculations using libraries such as Numpy and Pandas are a must. Experience in some form of Machine Learning. We require candidates who have working experience using Django Framework

 

Key Skills required (Items in Bold are mandatory keywords) :

1. Proficiency in Python 3.x based web and backend development

2. Solid understanding of Python concepts

3. Experience with some form of Machine Learning (ML)

4. Experience in using libraries such as Numpy and Pandas

5. Some form of experience with NLP and Deep Learning using any of Pytorch, Tensorflow, Keras, Scikit-learn or similar

6. Hands on experience with RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL

7. Experience building REST APIs using DRF or Flask

8. Comfort with Git repositories, branching and deployment using Git

9. Working experience with Docker

10. Basic working knowledge of ReactJs

11. Experience in deploying Django applications to AWS,Digital Ocean or Heroku

 

KRAs includes:

1. Understanding the scope of work

2. Understanding and adopting the current internal development workflow and processes

3. Understanding client requirements as communicated by the project manager

4. Arriving on timelines for projects, either independently or as a part of a team

5. Executing projects either independently or as a part of a team

6. Developing products and projects using Python

7. Writing code to collect and mathematically analyse large volumes of data.

8. Creating backend modules in Python by building or reutilizing existing modules in a manner so as to

provide optimal deliveries on time

9. Writing Scalable, maintainable code

10. Building secured REST APIs

11. Setting up batch task processing environments using Celery

12. Unit testing prepared modules

13. Bug fixing issues as reported by the QA team

14. Optimization and performance tuning of code

 

Bonus but not mandatory

1. Nodejs

2. Redis

3. PHP

4. CI/CD

5. AWS

About Artivatic :Artivatic is technology startup that uses AI/ML/Deeplearning to build intelligent products & solutions for finance, healthcare & insurance businesses. It is based out of Bangalore with 20+ team focus on technology. Artivatic building is cutting edge solutions to enable 750 Millions plus people to get insurance, financial access and health benefits with alternative data sources to increase their productivity, efficiency, automation power and profitability, hence improving their way of doing business more intelligently & seamlessly. Artivatic offers lending underwriting, credit/insurance underwriting, fraud, prediction, personalization, recommendation, risk profiling, consumer profiling intelligence, KYC Automation & Compliance, automated decisions, monitoring, claims processing, sentiment/psychology behaviour, auto insurance claims, travel insurance, disease prediction for insurance and more. We have raised US $300K earlier and built products successfully and also done few PoCs successfully with some top enterprises in Insurance, Banking & Health sector. Currently, 4 months away from generating continuous revenue.Skills : - Building server-side logic that powers our APIs, in effect deploying machine learning models in production system that can scale to billions of API calls - Scaling and performance tuning of database to handle billions of API calls and thousands of concurrent requests - Collaborate with data science team to build effective solutions for data collection, pre-processing and integrating machine learning into the workflow - Collaborate, provide technical guidance, and engage in design and code review for other team members. - Excellent Scala, cassandara, architect, api, software, python, Java programming and software design skills, including debugging, performance analysis and test design - Proficiency with at least one Scala, GoLang, Python micro frameworks like Flask, Tornado, Play, Spring etc. with experience in building REST APIs - Experience or understanding in building web crawlers, data fetching bots etc. - Experience with design and optimisation of Neo4j, cassandra, NoSQL databases, PostGreSQL, Redis, Elastic Search - Familiarity with one of the cloud service providers, AWS or Google Compute Engine - Computer Science degree with 4+ years of backend programming experience Experience : 3 Years+ Location : Sony World Signal, Koramangala 4th Block, Bangalore

- Niki is an artificially intelligent personal shopping assistant (http://niki.ai/app). Our founding team is from IIT Kharagpur, and we are looking for a Backend Developer to join us in the core software development and maintenance. - We work mostly in Java and Python and object oriented concepts are a must to fit in the team. If you have experience in :1. Working at a high-traffic consumer facing company for minimum 5 years. 2. Architecting scalable systems in terms of making key decisions about database options, server frameworks, sync vs async, distributed vs monolithic, redundancy etc. 3. Ensuring fault tolerance and optimal latency of distributed and concurrent systems. 4. Mitigating and recovering from large scale system crashes and disasters. 5. Automation and consumer centric machine learning implementations - setting up ground truth, feedback loops and A/B testing. 6. Large scale monitoring and alarm systems. 7. Thinking backwards from a customer POV and relentlessly pursuing customer's cause in tech and product decisions. And you are always ready to get your hands dirty with coding and shipping products and services covering all the aspects yourselves - requirements gathering, resource allocation, testing, deploying, monitoring and iterating. Basic eligibility criteria are : 1. Graduate/Post-Graduate in Computer Science/Mathematics/Physics or allied fields. 2. Industry experience of 5-9 years in developing scalable software. 3. Have some experience in leading a team big or small.

3 or more years of experience in Python programming Good understanding of Object oriented programming concept. Should have working knowledge with flask and mongodb. At least 2 - 3years experience in Machine learning and NLP Proficient with machine learning and deep learning libraries like Pandas,Numpy,Scikit learn,Tensorflow, and Keras, Expertise into deep learning- neural networks would add advantages Proficient with Any Natural language processing library like NLTK or Spacy Hands-on technical experience of Artificial intelligence using open source programming languages and analytics software. Experience using data science techniques such as web scraping, text mining, natural language processing, machine learning, statistical modelling or image recognition Data visualisation skills, e.g. in Tableau or qlikview would add advantage.

The person will be responsible for implementing natural language processing and AI / Machine learning components, as well as integrating available open source components and APIs into the system. Primary responsibilities will include implementing the system following directions from the architect and the AI scientific team, testing and validating performance, and supporting modifications as needed. Development of tools for training AI and ML algorithms will also be a part of the responsibility of this individual. Education: Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science. Proficiency in Java, Python Experience: Minimum of three to four years experience in implementing machine learning and natural language processing algorithms or working with available open source AI/ML components.