x.ai - NY - Data Scientist
At x.ai, we are building an artificial intelligence powered personal assistant. The software will schedule meetings for our customers automatically without subjecting them to the typical back and forth over email negotiating when and where to meet someone. We are looking for a smart, self-motivated, and enthusiastic individual to join us on the journey in building the artificial intelligence of the future. You’ll get to work side by side with a small team of serial entrepreneurs moving at breakneck speed.
A Data Scientist will:
- Design, develop and implement statistical models to carry out various novel aspects of classification and information extraction from unstructured text, such as emails or email threads
- Using a combination of judgement and experience, create hypotheses to confront complex Natural Language Processing problems
- Be capable of designing stringent tests of these hypothesis and use results to guide further development towards performance optimization
- Familiar with or eager to learn various advanced statistical techniques to solve different optimization and constraint problems related to automating the coordination of people’s schedules and derivation of implicit and explicit preferences from email-related data
- Be capable of visualizing and communicating data science concepts to other team members, and seek meaningful feedback from them
Ideal Candidate:
- Quantitative degree and/or relevant experience
- Strong statistics background, ideally experience with Natural Language Processing techniques; loves building mathematical and probabilistic models and algorithms
- Code experience in a production environment; familiar with data structures, parallelism and concurrency
- Intellectually curious, collaborative, self-motivated, fast learner that comfortable working in a dynamic environment tackling challenging problems
- Bonus: Experience with Scala, Python, AWS, and MongoDB; implementation experience with supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms
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