Data Scientist (Natural Language Processing)
Frontiers, Switzerland
Job Description
Frontiers is a fast-growing open-access academic publisher with headquarters in Lausanne Switzerland, employing over 700 people. Frontiers has massively invested in data acquisition and modeling, leading to the deployment of sophisticated data products to further accelerate its business.
We are looking for a Data Scientist with experience in natural language processing (NLP) to join our data science team in Lausanne. Your main focus will be the development of state-of-the-art NLP algorithms for extracting knowledge from the scientific literature to build a knowledge graph.
You will work together with product owners, machine learning engineers and data engineers in order to build machine learning products that can advance Frontiers’ business. We are a diverse team of people from over 30 different countries with offices in Lausanne, Madrid, London, Seattle and Beijing. We are operating in small teams, with freedom for independent work and fast decision making.
Responsibilities
- Development, optimization and evaluation of NLP models and pipelines
- Technological review of data science solutions and communication to management
- Proactive identification of opportunities for potential products within Frontiers
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or similar
- Fluency in English and strong communication skills
- Demonstrable experience in NLP tasks such as named entity and relation recognition/linking
- Experience in semantic search, text summarisation, word/sentence/document embeddings
- Familiarity with knowledge graphs and graph embeddings
- Proficiency in Python, including its data/statistical/NLP packages (e.g. NumPy, SciPy, pandas, scikit-learn, spaCy, HuggingFace transformers, AllenNLP)
- Experience with deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, Keras, Tensorflow)
- Willingness to share and adopt best work practices on a common codebase (Python packaging, version control, pull requests, testing, continuous integration)
- Experience with SQL
- Familiarity with big data platforms (e.g. Spark, Azure Databricks) is a plus
Benefits:
- 25 days' vacation per year and Christmas office closure
- Participation into the company's annual bonus scheme
- Access to the latest equipment and international working environment
- Professional development opportunities
- Frontiers has taken the decision to offer our employees full flexibility to work-from-home.
- Fruits and snacks in the kitchen as well as much tea amp; coffee as you like
- In-house well being activities including free weekly yoga
How to apply
Please submit your application in English.
Applicants must be Swiss or EU citizen, or have a valid Swiss work permit.
Frontiers actively embraces diversity and is a safe and welcoming workplace. Recruitment is free from discrimination - including based on race, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation. With over 600 employees from more than 50 different nations, our diversity creates vibrant teams and constantly challenges us to appreciate multiple perspectives.