NLP Data Scientist

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Sortlist is an online platform that helps brands to find the best creative, digital and marketing agencies.
Founded in Belgium in January 2014, we now have 100+ talented people all around Europe (Belgium, France, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Romania). We’re soon to open the UK and the US markets.
In 2020, we helped thousands of companies find the right agency for more than 50.000 projects worldwide. That was made possible thanks to the 2.500.000 visits and 70.000 agencies we had on the platform.
At Sortlist, we know that data is at the core of a great marketplace and we aim to become a reference in the industry.
We need your help to get there faster!
What you will do as a NLP Data Scientist
You will be part of our Artificial Intelligence Team and work mostly with: product managers, backend developers, devops engineers and business intelligence people to:

• Find new and exciting ways to apply and validate NLP research in production. Topics here are, for example, named entity recognition, applying or developing language models. We need to support at least six languages and more to come.
• Help backend developers and devops put your prototypes into production.
• Improve the user experience of our platform by the little pieces of automation you invented and make a lot of people a tiny bit happier every day, because their work gets simpler every day.
• Support several business units in making qualified decisions. This can be, for example, finding ways to optimize campaigns, but also other things.

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What we expect from you: *

• The ability to learn and grow within our team, strong interest in machine learning in real world applications.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities
• Customer focus: You want to see something used by real people and prefer to have a real world impact to writing code based on some interesting theories, but no clear scenario where this can be useful.

Tech Skills:

• Experience with Python machine learning tools (any of those or similar: gensim, tensorflow, pytorch, keras, scikit-learn)
• Experience with natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR)
• Familiarity with programming for data analysis; ideally Python, SQL
• Worked with Databrick, Sagemaker, Colab or similar
• Digging into data lakes or data warehouses
• Having designed or worked with REST(ful) APIs is a plus

What is in for you:

• Possibility to work from our Belgian, German or Romanian offices; remote work is also possible.

• Opportunity to grow your technical skills (e.g. learn how to put an AI model into production), but also your communication and “weak skills”;
• Modern equipment and tools that support the work in the best possible way. For us, that means new MacBooks or a top notch laptop of your choice.
• A great working atmosphere and an extremely dedicated team. I think it’s really rare to find a team that harmonizes as well as ours and where you feel welcomed so quickly.

• You can mostly work in autonomy, of course after careful planning with your team members. What counts is the common goal. There are so many ways to achieve it. We count on your expertise to make the right decisions here.
• Excellent online collaboration tools: G Suite, Github Projects, Slack, online - > no pain with Microsoft tools
• 2000€ yearly training budget
• Actual work-life balance. We all have a life outside of work, and that needs to be valued. Working remotely because you’re visiting friends or parents, being really unavailable on weekends and completely relaxing on vacation

**We’re always open to more suggestions and requests : )

Ready to become part of the Sortlist team?
If you picture yourself in this role and you’re passionate about this field, give us a chance to meet you! Go ahead, hit that button and apply! We will get back to you ASAP to let you know whether you’d be a good fit.

Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: Multiple Locations