What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Applied Scientist - NLP position at Wish?
Company Description
Wish is a mobile e-commerce platform that flips traditional shopping on its head. We connect hundreds of millions of people with the widest selection of delightful, surprising, and—most importantly—affordable products delivered directly to their doors. Each day on Wish, millions of customers in more than 100 countries around the world discover new products. For our over 1 million merchant partners, anyone with a good idea and a mobile phone can instantly tap into a global market.
We're fueled by creating unique products and experiences that give people access to a new type of commerce, where all are welcome. If you’ve been searching for a supportive environment to chase your curiosity and use data to investigate the questions that matter most to you, this is the place.
Job Description
The Knowledge Engineering organization is responsible for data understanding, search and discovery end-to-end at Wish. We build core AI systems, microservices, and infrastructures by leveraging cutting-edge technologies to impact millions of users with personalized shopping experiences everyday.
We are looking for an outstanding applied scientist with a solid Natural Language Processing (NLP) background to join our team! The role will provide an opportunity to work on research and develop large-scale deep learning models and systems to deeply understand our products, users, and search queries at Wish.
What you'll be doing:
Design, research and develop state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) models and deep learning algorithms to deeply understand our products, users, and search queries.
Build highly scalable and available machine learning systems to improve different systems across the company, including structured data, query understanding, content moderation, search, personalization, ads, merchant, logistics, etc.
Work and collaborate with different cross-functional teams end-to-end.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in computer science or related field.
3 years of industry experience in software engineering and applied machine learning related domain.
Solid programming skills with proven experience designing, developing and delivering advanced machine learning models and engineering systems.
Passionate, great communication skills, strong ownership, self-motivated, and inventive.
Preferred Qualifications:
PhD degree in artificial intelligence, machine learning, or natural language processing, etc.
Publications in top tier conferences, such as ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, NeurIPS, KDD, AAAI, etc.
Experience with natural language understanding, information extraction, search engine, recommender system, knowledge graph, computational advertising, etc.
Experience with big data platforms and large-scale distributed systems.
Here at Wish, you are joining a team and company at a time of growth and transformation. You will love being surrounded by people who are as passionate as you are about e-commerce, technology, and a data-driven culture. Even if you don't meet 100% of the above, we encourage you to still apply!
Additional Information
Wish values diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive work environment. We provide equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. We do not discriminate based on any legally-protected class or characteristic. Employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know. For job positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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