Remote NLP Engineer

Summary

Join Trunk Tools, a startup tackling the construction industry, as we deploy workflows and agents to automate construction. As a key team member, you will enhance search capabilities through advanced NLP techniques, process diverse documents, and design entity extraction systems.

Requirements

• MS/PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in NLP, with a focus on building production-ready systems
• Proficiency in Python, ML and experience with NLP libraries such as NLTK, spaCy, or Hugging Face Transformers
• Strong experience with information retrieval and search technologies, such as elasticsearch, graph databases, or vector embeddings
• Familiarity with LLM-based applications and RAG systems in real-world scenarios

Responsibilities

• Enhance our search capabilities through advanced NLP techniques
• Process and analyze a diverse set of documents including text, tables and images
• Design and implement entity extraction and text classification systems
• Identify and model relationships between entities within and across different document types
• Design and implement an efficient indexing structure to enable accurate and fast search capabilities
• Design and conduct experiments to evaluate and improve NLP model performance
• Develop and maintain language models tailored to the construction industry domain

Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock option equity packages
• 3 Medical Plans to choose from including 100% covered option. Plus Dental and Vision Insurance!
• 401K
• Learning & Growth stipend
• Free lunch provided in NYC and Austin office - you’ll never go hungry with us!
• Unlimited PTO; We truly believe in work-life balance and that hard work should be balanced with time for rest and rejuvenation