Lead Data Scientist (NLP)

At AI Palette, we are transforming the consumer product industry. We are looking for smart, motivated, fun people to help us with this industry-changing transformation. AI Palette is building the World’s First AI Platform for New Product Development leveraging the latest cutting-edge and emerging technologies around Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Cloud computing. 
What's it like to work at AI Palette? We're a growing technology startup based out of Singapore; our team members are motivated individuals that help each other do remarkable things and achieve extraordinary results every day. We are active learners, have a positive impact on consumer’s lives and do exceptional work. We face challenges together and we win together. And we strive together to deliver world-class solutions that transform the way consumer products are created. Join us!

We are looking for a passionate NLP enthusiast who will be leading the Data Science division and core development of our AI Platform that will ideate products of the future. As the lead Data Scientist, you will be working hand in hand with the CTO on the toughest and most challenging problems in NLP handling multiple Asian languages and context identification using public data that includes social media. You will get the opportunity to work on Generative text algorithms and add feathers of patents and trade secrets to your cap.

RESPONSIBILITIES 
- Work with the millions of public data points to identify trends and gather 
insights. 
- Leverage the power of Generative text algorithms to create new product 
concepts. 
- Iterative improvements to the existing features as well as development of 
new features. 
- Work closely with the Platform Engineering Team to deploy the AI models. 
- Build & grow your own data science team

REQUIREMENTS 
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, 
Engineering or related fields. 
- Prior experience of 3+ years in industrial data science related to NLP 
- Familiarity with one or more of the open source NLP frameworks (NLTK, 
SpaCy, ELMo, BERT, ULMFiT, ERNIE) 
- Significant previous hands-on experience with machine learning frameworks 
such as Tensorflow, Keras, PyTorch. 
- Proficiency in Python programming in accordance with Software 
- Development standards, including version control (git) and managing 
production codebase.

IDEAL 
- PhD in Computer Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or 
related fields. 
- Experience in computational linguistic theory 
- Prior work experience with social media data (twitter, instagram, reddit, 
blogs, etc.) 
- Previous experience with Cloud Platforms especially with one out of AWS, 
GCP, Azure, etc. 
- Are you a Kaggle Kernel Grandmaster? Welcome to AI Palette!

BENEFITS 
- Own what you do with access to our Employee Share Options Pool (ESOP) 
- Look after yourself with health insurance including Hospital/Surgical, Major 
Medical and Outpatient 
- Learn new skills with sponsored training on Coursera 
- Expand your knowledge with sponsored annual library membership 
- Flexible work hours: Early birds and midnight-oil-burners rejoice!

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY 
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.