Principal Data Scientist- NLP jobs in Bangalore at Swiggy

Principal Data Scientist- NLP

Location: BANGALORE

Role: TECHNOLOGY – DATA SCIENCE

About Team:

Applied Research team at Swiggy is looking for experienced researchers with an aptitude to solve challenging real world problems in the area of natural language processing (NLP)/natural language understanding (NLU).

Role Summary:

As a Principal Data Scientist, we are looking for a subject matter expert in NLP, who would be working on some of the important problem statements we are trying to solve : developing chatbot for English and mixed English (English and Indian languages written using English keyboards),intent classification, sentiment analysis, text categorization, keyword spotting, machine translation from English to Indian languages and vice-versa, automatic speech recognition (ASR) etc.

Requirements:

The potential candidates need to be well versed in classical text processing methodologies like hidden Markov models (HMMs),conditional random fields (CRFs),topic models, word-embeddings, part-of-speech (PoS) tagging etc.
Good understanding of usual machine learning (ML) tools is very important.
Hands-on experience of deep learning (DL) techniques like convolutional neural networks (CNNs),recurrent neural networks (RNNs),long-term short-term memory (LSTM) etc is essential.
Hands-on coding experience in ML friendly languages like python and knowledge of open source ML/DL libraries is needed in order to implement the ideas into working proof-of-concepts (PoCs).
The right candidate will have masters (M.S./M.Tech. etc) or/and PhD degrees with research experience of several years in some of the above domains.
Preferably should have published their research in conferences and journals of repute.
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