Associate Applied ML Scientist - 1087

Lightcast • Moscow, ID

31d

About The Position

Lightcast is seeking an Associate NLP / Machine Learning Scientist to join its AI/ML Lab and help develop NLP models for large-scale labor market data. The role works with senior scientists and engineers to build and improve models that transform unstructured data, including job postings and professional profiles, into structured labor market intelligence. Core problem areas include classification, information extraction, entity recognition, normalization, semantic matching, and multilingual NLP.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, machine learning, NLP, data science, or a related field.
• Strong foundation in machine learning, natural language processing, and deep learning.
• Experience using Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch, Hugging Face, or scikit-learn.
• Familiarity with transformers, embeddings, classification, information extraction, or entity normalization.
• Experience training and evaluating machine learning models, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to collaborate and learn quickly in research and production environments.
• Internship, academic, or professional experience building NLP or machine learning models.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with large language models, fine-tuning, LoRA, PEFT, or prompt engineering.
• Exposure to multilingual NLP, semantic search, retrieval, or entity linking.
• Familiarity with model optimization techniques such as quantization or distillation.
• Experience with AWS, SageMaker, Docker, MLflow, or similar machine learning tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve NLP models for classification, extraction, normalization, entity linking, and semantic matching.
• Train and evaluate transformer-based and embedding-based models using architectures such as BERT, DeBERTa, ModernBERT, and Sentence Transformers.
• Support experimentation with LLMs and foundation models, including prompt-based approaches and fine-tuning techniques.
• Perform model evaluation, error analysis, and data analysis to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Help optimize models for production, focusing on accuracy, latency, throughput, and cost.
• Build and maintain reproducible training and evaluation pipelines.
• Work with multilingual labor market data and support cross-lingual model development.
• Collaborate with senior scientists, ML engineers, and data engineers to productionize models.
• Stay current with advances in NLP, LLMs, embeddings, and machine learning.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level