At Owl, we tackle one of the most difficult challenges facing insurers around the globethe right way. We are committed to using data and AI ethically, so insurers and their clients are comfortable with these technologies, and no longer have to pass the costs of malingering, exaggerated, and criminal claims onto their policyholders and bottom-line. We’re venture-backed and have already acquired some of the largest insurers as paying clients.
We are looking for an NLP specialist that will help us discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data, and help us make smarter decisions to deliver even better products. Your primary focus will be to apply data mining techniques and statistical analysis to build our text analysis functions. A talented and experienced engineer with a knack for data scraping and NLP would have a significant impact on our product. If you can work with raw data, generate a model, and turn it into an automated pipeline, we’d love to chat!
Responsibilities
- Directly working with the CTO to develop and implement NLP-based information extraction solutions
- Writing code to scrape data to feed into NLP models; driving solutions for cleaning noisy text, normalizing it and ensuring high-quality results
- Turning your prototypes into automation pipelines and deploying them to production
- Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
- Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
- Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner
Requirements
- M.S. or PhD. in Computer Science, Data Science or similar
- Industry and academic experience working on a range of ML problems
- Familiarity with state-of-the-art NLP data structures and models
- Experience with NLP techniques such as entity extraction, dependency parsing, coreference resolution, topic modeling, language modeling, text classification, transformer networks and semantic extraction techniques
- Working knowledge of data processing, cloud infrastructure and AWS services
- Experience building and deploying predictive models, web scraping, and scalable data pipelines
- Strong knowledge of Python, and related machine learning tools (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch, NLTK, spaCy, Keras)
- Excellent communication skills
- Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.
- Data-oriented personality
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible working hours + work-life balance
- Beautiful workspace in Vancouver and Toronto office coming soon!
- Amazing culture of collaborative and passionate coworkers