Job DescriptionNiki is an artificially intelligent ordering application (
http://niki.ai/app" target="_blank">niki.ai/app). Our founding team is from IIT Kharagpur, and we are looking for a Natural Language Processing Engineer to join our engineering team.
The ideal candidate will have industry experience solving language-related problems using statistical methods on vast quantities of data available from Indian mobile consumers and elsewhere.
Major responsibilities would be:1. Create language models from text data. These language models draw heavily from statistical, deep learning as well as rule based research in recent times around building taggers, parsers, knowledge graph based dictionaries etc.
2. Develop highly scalable classifiers and tools leveraging machine learning, data regression, and rules based models
3. Work closely with product teams to implement algorithms that power user and developer-facing products
We work mostly in Java and Python and object oriented concepts are a must to fit in the team. Basic eligibility criteria are:
1. Graduate/Post-Graduate/M.S./
Ph.D in Computer Science/Mathematics/Machine Learning/NLP or allied fields.
2. Industry experience of min 5 years.
3. Strong background in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
4. Have some experience in leading a team big or small.
5. Experience with Hadoop/Hbase/Pig or MaprReduce/Sawzall/Bigtable is a plus
Competitive Compensation.What We're BuildingWe are building an automated messaging platform to simplify ordering experience for consumers. We have launched the Android App:
http://niki.ai/app" target="_blank">niki.ai/app . In the current avatar, Niki can process mobile phone recharge and book cabs for the consumers. It assists in finding the right recharge plans across topup, 2g, 3g and makes the transaction. In cab booking, it helps in end to end booking along with tracking and cancellation within the App. You may also compare to get the nearest or the cheapest cab among available ones.
Being an instant messaging App, it works seamlessly on 2G / 3G / Wifi and is light weight around 3.6 MB. You may check out using:
https://niki.ai/" target="_blank">niki.ai app