About AlphaSense

AlphaSense provides a revolutionary search engine for knowledge professionals. 

Our mission is to curate and summarize the world's business knowledge, including the vast high-value content sets that traditional web search engines cannot reach. Our users can rapidly discover key data points & relationships while tracking impactful real-time events with intelligent, automated alerts.

Our 1000+ clients include many of the world's largest investment & advisory firms, global banks & Fortune 500 corporations - helping our users become dramatically more productive & gain an information edge by discovering critical data points & trends that others miss.

The Role:

You will join our team of machine learning engineers developing the cutting edge AI & NLP systems that power AlphaSense Search. You are as excited about scaling these systems for production workloads as you are with developing cutting edge algorithms.

Responsibilities:

• Develop highly scalable deep learning models
• Adapt machine learning methods to make effective use of modern parallel environments, distributed clusters and GPUs
• Define performance and scalability requirements for models in production and translate into technical implementation plan and roadmap
• Own systems end-to-end including design, code, train, test, deployment and iteration

Requirements:

• A BS/MS degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or equivalent
• 4+ years developing data pipelines with Python with additional experience in Java, Linux, and scripting languages that interact with cloud resources
• Demonstrated experience developing end-to-end NLP models to derive insights from text data using NLP libraries in Python
• Experience with building back-end services and APIs in Django or Flask
• Good grasp of data toolchains and best practices (such as Beam, Dataflow, Airflow, Spark, Kafka)
• Experience with docker/kubernetes
• Experience using SQL, NOSQL and search databases (SOLR/Lucene, MySQL, Mongo/Cassandra, SOLR/Lucene, etc.)
• Experience working with cloud computing (preferably AWS or GCP)
• Experience with iterative Agile methodology and use of tools like JIRA, Confluence, Git
• Familiarity with Deep Learning frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow
• Demonstrated experience in the software development lifecycle, from requirements to design to development and testing
• Strong communication skills and ability to build pipelines with little guidance in small teams and independently
• Excellent organizational, problem-solving, debugging and analytical skills