(Senior) Data Scientist - Full Remote - Contractor

Category: IT Services

Location:

For one project at a European Institution in Belgium, we’re currently looking for a Full Remote (Senior) Data Scientist.

Candidates need to be based in Europe and have a workpermit. EU Candidates need to be fluent in English. This position is open for employees and freelancers.

Tasks and responsibilities:

- Development and maintenance of software applications in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML) and/or Artificial Intelligence (AI);

- Training of custom machine learning / deep learning models based on structured and unstructured data;

- Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques;

- Follow studies and developments aiming at improving the quality of machine translation (MT) engines for each installed language pair;

- Interact with data stewards and other IT stakeholders to define the data rules;

- Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance;

- Data mining using state-of-the-art methods;

- Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis;

- Design the IT architecture for solutions in the NLP / ML / AI fields, and coordinate its implementation considering master- and meta-data management concepts;

Profile:

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- Master Degree in a related field with 11 years of professional experience in IT.

- +3 years of professional experience in the domain as a Data Scientist;

- Experience in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing;

- Excellent knowledge of Perl, Python, Matlab, R and its NLP/ML libraries (SpaCy, NLTK, scikitlearn, pandas);

- Good knowledge of SQL tooling (NoSQL DB, MongoDB, Hadoop, SQL);

- Knowledge of query languages, such as SQL, Hive, Pig, etc and experience with information extraction;

- Knowledge of NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, etc;

- Knowledge of data visualisation tools, such as D3.js, GGplot, etc;

- Good knowledge of AWS and/or Azure;

- Good knowledge of Linux;

- Good knowledge of Unix and Bash;

- Excellent knowledge of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, Neural Network, and/or artificial intelligence frameworks.

- Knowledge in one of the following areas: predictive (forecasting, recommendation), prescriptive (simulation), sentiment analysis, topic detection, social media crawling and processing, plagiarism detection, trends/anomalies detection in datasets, recommendation systems.

- Experience in the field of corpus based linguistics;

- Experience with alignment models and classification methods;

- Good knowledge of natural language processing systems lifecycle and agile software development methodologies;

- Fluent in English;

Interested: Please forward your resume to

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