Senior/Principal Data Scientist - NLP

Summary

Join Veeva Systems, a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.

Requirements

• 4+ years of data science experience (or 2+ years with a Ph.D.)
• Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, AI, Computational Linguistics, or a related field
• Strong foundation in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML)
• Experience with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) methods like Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) and Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) for training LLMs based on human preferences
• Hands-on experience with large language models and transformers (e.g., GPT, BERT)
• Proficient in Python and NLP libraries (e.g., NLTK, SpaCy, Hugging Face)
• Familiarity with Big Data frameworks (e.g., Ray, Spark) and Deep Learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, JAX)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills for cross-functional teamwork

Responsibilities

• Adopt the latest NLP technologies and trends
• Develop LLM-based agents capable of performing function calls and using tools like browsers for enhanced data retrieval
• Design and implement end-to-end pipelines to extract predefined information from large-scale, unstructured, multi-domain, and multilingual data
• Use and develop techniques like named entity recognition, entity-linking, slot-filling, few-shot learning, active learning, question answering, and dense passage retrieval for information extraction
• Collaborate with data quality teams to define annotation metrics and conduct qualitative and quantitative evaluations

Benefits

• Work anywhere
• Personal development budget
• Veeva charitable giving program
• Fitness reimbursement
• Life insurance + pension fund