!!!! You must be located within 2 hours of the Baltimore area for this position or willing to relocated within 30 days!!!!!
Description:
- Masters +2 years of experience or 6 years relevant work experience
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Formulate and rapidly prototype various approaches as well as effectively communicate the pros and cons of each.
- Excellent time management
- Ability to contribute to a high-performing, motivated workgroup by applying interpersonal and collaboration skills to achieve project goals
- Provide technical guidance in the fields of NLP, Machine Learning, Statistical Methods
- Provide data-driven approaches to tackle various business and NLP problems
- Ability to contribute to the creation of an environment that motivates individuals to work collaboratively as a team
Requires proficiency in:
- Python (required)
- Regular Expressions
- SQL (PostgreSQL)
- No-SQL (MongoDB)
- Version control systems (Git)
- Experience with ML frameworks: Tensorflow, PyTorch, Transfomers, Scikit-learn XGBoost, LSTM, Keras, Pandas, BERT, CNN, RNN, SVMs, k-Nearest Neighbors, Linear/Logistic Regression and Classification, Ensemble Methods, Graphical Models, Clustering, Tesseract
- Information Extraction
- Statistical model building (particularly classification)
- Ability to draw insights from sparsely labeled textual data.
- Ability to leverage domain knowledge as well as ontologies to improve model performance
Strong understanding of statistical modeling and experimental design including:
- When to value precision vs recall
- Bias/variance tradeoffs
- Handling sampling issues
- Ability to improve performance on noisy data (both textual and numeric)
Knowledge of and experience using various NLP approaches, particularly:
- Pattern recognition/feature extraction
- Supervised, Unsupervised, and Semi-Supervised learning techniques
- Understanding of various language models (N-Gram, Skipgram, NLM, etc.)
- Practical experience leveraging open source libraries for emerging DNN approaches to NLP (transformers, BERT, RoBERTA, etc.)
- Chunking/Tokenization
- Semantic parsing
The following skills are not required but are highly desired:
- Experience with NLP technologies
- Experience with machine learning
- Cloud Services Provides (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Web Service technologies such as SOAP, WSDL, WS-Security, MTOM, SWA
- Relational Databases such as DB2, Oracle, MySQL, SQL, JDBC
- NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and HBase
- Hadoop, Spark, HDFS, MapReduce, YARN, Scala, MapReduce, Pyspark
- XML processing experience such as XSD, XPath, XSL, XSLT, etc.
- ebXML
- IBM MQ Series
Required Skills:
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Expert
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) – Expert
- Python – Expert
- Machine Learning – Expert
- PostgreSQL – Expert
Education:
BS Required
Work Authorization:
US Citizen, Green Card, H1-B Visa
Background Check/Public Trust Clearance:
Active clearance is NOT required but candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a US Public Trust clearance
Hours:
You must be located in the US and be able to work US East Coast Hours
About Us
Interactive Consulting Services, Inc.'s (ICS) mission is to match elite talent with cutting-edge technologies and projects.
Interactive Consulting Services (ICS) is a small woman owned business headquartered in Jarrettsville, MD, and has been providing IT and talent services for over 20 years. ICS has a proven track record in both the public and private sectors, providing talent and solutions in fields ranging from healthcare, education, and finance, to social services, defense, and aviation.