Senior NLP Engineer (London)
hace 5 días
City of London
We are a small London startup with the ambition to change education with ML-powered tutoring. Our flagship product is a mobile application for teaching English to intermediate and advanced learners. We’re on the verge of solving one of the biggest challenges in education – making high-quality, personalised learning accessible to everyone. We are building a fundamental model for education - one that can accurately predict student knowledge and orchestrate lessons, adapting to the students needs. We’re looking for a Senior NLP Engineer, with a proven track record of delivering ML models to production, to join the ML team in our growing company. What you will do 🚀 • Build fundamental models for education - solving the ultimate learning task of predicting student knowledge and optimal ‘next task’, • Build fully-automated pipelines for dictionary building; including span identification, word sense distribution, and sense granularity decision, • Work with a vast amount of unique data - we have data from over 1M language tests, including text and voice data, • Create brand new dictionaries and train models to determine the difficulty of words, idioms, phrasal verbs etc., • Analyse large amounts of diverse data - including data from every movie, book, and song, • Work in a cross-functional team and communicate with backend engineers and product managers, • Create new types of tests for language learners to gather more test results, analyse them, and build prediction models based on these results, • Optimise and fine-tune machine learning models for performance, scalability, and accuracy Essential skills 🙏 • Strong expertise in NLP, • Complete end-to-end experience - from finding and cleaning data all the way to monitoring models in production, • Strong understanding of neural networks, CNNs, RNNs, LSTMs, and transformers, • Experience building automated data pipelines, • Hands-on experience with LLM tooling and libraries (e.g., Hugging Face Transformers/PEFT, tokenisers, spaCy or similar), • Experience shipping NLP systems: prompt engineering, fine-tuning (e.g., LoRA/PEFT), vector search, and RAG-based services, • Great knowledge of NLP algorithms: tokenisation, embeddings, attention, language modelling, text classification/generation, and information retrieval Desirable Skills 👌 • Can speak, or learning to speak, more than one language, • Experience with reinforcement learning, • Knowledge-sharing experience (tech talks, articles, YouTube videos, etc.), • Experience using voice data in ML models What we can offer ✨ • A real-deal startup adventure: you'll be hopping on a major project while it's still in the works!, • Freedom to suggest, implement, and test ideas, • Unlimited learning & development budget (courses, conferences, books etc.), • Lunch provided by the company every day, • Regular social events, • 25 days annual leave + public holidays, • Work from our London office Interview Process 🧪 • 3 interviews, which will be mixture of technical and non-technical tasks, • If all the interviews are successful, we’d like to invite you to 2 or 3 paid trial days, or to complete short project remotely with us, to learn what it’s like to work at Glite.