About our Team LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today's top model creators for each individual legal use case.
The Yoda team is a small division of LexisNexis focused on managing core data sets of people, organizations and taxonomies that are published internally for teams to build products with.
About the Role:
We are seeking a Data Scientist who will focus on data extraction, data structuring, classification and analysis using Data Science (NLP, LLMs, Regression, Classification). This role should be able demonstrate versatility, collaborate across teams, and be enthusiastic in tackling new problems as we continue to push technology forward.
Responsibilities:
- Working to solve some of the most challenging problems in natural language processing, machine learning, and information retrieval including topical classification, sentiment analysis, user intent detection.
- Research, build, and deploy models based on both shallow and deep machine learning. Train robust NLP-based models a very large corpus of news and financial data
- Drive best practices for NLP/Machine Learning pipelines.
- Maintain current knowledge base of state-of-the-art ML algorithms (BERT, ELMo, GPT, etc.), API's, and open-source methods, able to quickly evaluate alternatives
- Translate complex business requirements into actionable stories with reasonable time estimates.
- Work with product leaders to apply data science solutions.
Requirements:
- In-depth understanding of machine learning techniques such as classification, clustering, recommendation systems, and statistical models.
- Experience using Machine Learning and associated packages like scikit-learn, pandas, NumPy.
- Experience building cloud services in AWS (Ec2, Lambda) and architecture deployment.
- Proficiency training large scale models in at least one modern deep learning engine such as TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch/Torch, MXNet, Caffe/Caffe2
- Min 2 years of experience using NLP tools and methods such as OpenNLP, Stanford NLP, LDA, Gensim, spaCy
- Min 5 years recent coding experience using Python AND/OR (Java OR Scala)
- SQL programming experience
- Experience and ability to design and work within complex data models.
- Strong skills in setting, communicating, implementing, and achieving business objectives and goals
- Familiarity with Cloud-based Machine Learning environments, Spark, Visualization/Dashboarding, Elasticsearch, Solr, Graph DBs (i.e., Janus Graph, Neptune, etc.)
- Able to work well on a Small Team and Lead other more Jr members of the team
Work in a way that works for you We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
- Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive
Working for you We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
- Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
- Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
- Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
- Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
- Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice
About the Business LexisNexis Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis and Nexis services.
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