Associate Applied ML Scientist - 1087

Major Responsibilities:

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, machine learning, NLP, data science, or a related field.
• Strong foundation in machine learning, natural language processing, and deep learning.
• Experience using Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch, Hugging Face, or scikit-learn.
• Familiarity with transformers, embeddings, classification, information extraction, or entity normalization.
• Experience training and evaluating machine learning models, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to collaborate and learn quickly in research and production environments.
• Internship, academic, or professional experience building NLP or machine learning models.
• Familiarity with large language models, fine-tuning, LoRA, PEFT, or prompt engineering.
• Exposure to multilingual NLP, semantic search, retrieval, or entity linking.
• Familiarity with model optimization techniques such as quantization or distillation.
• Experience with AWS, SageMaker, Docker, MLflow, or similar machine learning tools.
• Additional information
• Lightcast is a global leader in labor market insights with our headquarters located in Moscow, ID (US) and other offices in the United Kingdom, Europe, and India. We work with partners across six continents to help drive economic prosperity and mobility by providing the insights needed to build and develop our people, our institutions and companies, and our communities.
• Lightcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and does not discriminate on the basis of federally protected statuses. Lightcast has always been, and always will be, committed to diversity of thought and unique perspectives. We seek dynamic professionals from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.

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