Senior NLP Engineer - Cambridge University Press & Assessment｜Meet.jobs

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Help us revolutionise English language learning and assessment!

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Marking and Results Capability team for a Senior Natural Language Processing Engineer to join our expanding NLP team.  

This growing team of Natural Language Processing Engineers will work closely with Cambridge University's Institute for Automated Language Teaching and Assessment (ALTA), to develop existing technologies and use cutting edge research to create new ones. This is an exciting opportunity to work with world-leading NLP researchers, solving educational problems with machine learning and artificial intelligence.

The Role

As a Senior NLP Engineer you will develop and deploy systems based on state-of-the-art natural language processing and machine learning. You will work with researchers at Cambridge Universityto push the boundaries of what it possible with computational linguistics. Using these discoveries, you will build operational systems alongside software engineers at English Language iTutoring (ELiT), transforming products and services that help people learn English.

Key accountabilities

• Support and maintain NLP-based systems. Update to improve performance and support new use-cases. Supervision of NLP Engineers engaged in the same
• Responding to queries regarding NLP systems, and where needed, developing immediately deployable fixes. Testing and quality assuring fixes before authorising deployment to live systems
• Develop and enhance analysis and evaluation pipelines for NLP solutions, including decision making and priority setting for the areas to develop
• Contribute to and lead cross-team projects (e.g., involving product teams, academic researchers) that prototype, integrate and deploy novel ML/NLP solutions
• Work with data engineers, web developers and enterprise architects to build and support pipelines and infrastructure to support NLP solutions
• Contribute to research that positions Cambridge University Press & Assessment as thought leaders in in the application of AI to English learning and assessment
• Collaborate with partners to publish and present research, leading NLP technical work
• Contribute to technical roadmap for NLP within the business
• Contribute to NLP recruitment, staff professional development and mentoring
• Keep up to date in state-of-the-art ML-NLP research relevant to Cambridge University Press & Assessment

About you

The successful candidate will have a Computer-Science based (or Linguistics with emphasis on NLP) Masters level degree. You will have expert computer programming skills and be highly proficient at coding in Python and Java. We are looking for someone with industry experience of applying Natural Language Processing, who has used machine learning libraries in Python and/or Java to solve problems. You will also be familiar with text pre-processing and normalisation techniques. We work with multidisciplinary teams at the University of Cambridge and are looking for a great communicator who will enhance these collaborations.

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The closing date for application is 27th of March, but interviews will already start before closing date.

For more information and to apply please go to our website.

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