CognitiveScale is looking for an Applied Machine Learning Scientist to join our team!
What We Do:
CognitiveScale is an augmented intelligence pioneer that pairs humans and machines to bring practical, scalable, trusted AI solutions to life.
CognitiveScale’s award-winning and proven Cortex software helps customers win with intelligent, transparent, and trusted AI-powered digital systems. Cortex Fabric empowers financial services, digital commerce, and healthcare organizations to radically simplify the development, deployment, and management of their AI systems while Cortex Certifai helps businesses automate the management of AI business risk by answering pressing questions around robustness, explainability, and bias of AI systems. Whether they are personalizing investor, customer, patient, or member experiences, or ensuring digital systems use trustworthy AI, our clients are creating a better future for all.
Why Us?
We are headquartered in beautiful Austin, Texas and have offices in London and Hyderabad. CognitiveScale is #1 in AI patents among privately held companies. Our investors include Norwest Venture Partners, Intel Capital, IBM Watson, M12 (Microsoft Ventures), USAA, and Anthem BlueCross BlueShield. We have been recognized by the World Economic Forum, as well as top industry analysts for positively impacting business and society with AI.
What You’ll Do:
Our Algorithmic Sciences team integrates ML and NLP expertise with enterprise software to deliver innovative people and process centric AI solutions. This position is specifically for candidates with demonstrated applied ML expertise who can engage with customers and potential customers to help translate their business problems into a set of data science procedures. This includes estimation of what data, skills, and effort levels would be required for such engagements, and then development of a model in collaboration with your peers on the machine learning team and software engineers.
High Level Responsibilities:
Analyze complex data from various sources to build next-generation ML systems
Assist the engineering and operations teams in integrating and deploying your solutions
Estimate the effort involved and skills needed from a machine learning perspective for a specific customer engagement
Learn and understand industry processes and incorporate them in the solution
Maintain a high standard of quality and adhere to best coding practices
Coordinate and work collaboratively with remote teams to ensure smooth delivery
Measure and optimize the quality of your algorithms
Qualifications:
Experience with Data Science centered projects in the software industry
MS degree in Computer Science/Engineering, related quantitative field with 2 years of relevant experience or a Bachelor’s degree in these fields with 4+ years of experience
Experience with languages such as Python, C++, and Linux shell scripts
Strong interest and knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and its subfields
Experience with open-source ML/math toolkits such as scikit-learn, PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc.
Ability to collaborate with the R&D team to develop new algorithms
Experience in topics including Deep Learning, Contextual Bandits, optimization, statistics, and NLP is a plus
Prior customer facing experience
Up to 10% once travel restrictions are lifted
Location
This role can be located anywhere in the U.S., although we have a strong preference for Austin-based individuals. We are working fully remotely during the pandemic but anticipate returning to the office in summer of 2021. We plan to adopt a remote first culture which will enable employees the flexibility to work from home, with occasional travel to CogScale offices for meetings, team building events or just to have a quiet place to work.
Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
CognitiveScale is an Equal Opportunity Employer. CognitiveScale does not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of age, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, veteran status, or disability.
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