Role: Lead NLP Engineer
Location: Bengaluru (North, Sanjay Nagar)
Reporting to: Senior Management
Type: Full-time and in-office

Stride.AI is a fast-growing Cognitive Automation company backed by Techstars. Stride's proprietary platform combines Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to bring speed and efficiency to our customers. With Stride's technology we can automate processes
which would otherwise be cumbersome and time-consuming, and hence free up employee's time for higher value delivery. Our primary clientele are investment banks and financial services companies across the globe.

Stride is home for the best and brightest minds. We are building next generation AI systems and are looking for the crème de la crème to join our team.

Job Description

4 to 7 years experience as NLP Engineer
Solid understanding of Python
Experience with NLP technologies & the handling of unstructured text
Detailed understanding of text pre-processing and normalisation techniques such as tokenisation, lemmatisation, stemming, POS tagging etc.
Prior experience in implementation of traditional ML solutions - classification, regression or clustering problem
Expertise in text-analytics - Sentiment Analysis, Entity Extraction, Language modelling - and associated sequence learning models ( RNN, LSTM, GRU )
Comfort in working with deep-learning libraries (PyTorch)
Strong experience in creation, management and consumption of REST APIs leveraging Swagger, Postman, API Gateways etc;
Strong knowledge in data modelling, querying, performance tuning of any big-data stores (MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis etc) and /or any RDBMS (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL etc)
Think creatively to identify new opportunities and contribute to high quality publications or patents.
Work in a highly collaborative environment with teams to deliver systems from prototyping to production level.
Experience in conducting research and conversion of underlying research methodologies into software solutions
Ability to effectively design software architecture