Hybrid Data Science Intern, NLP

at Vail Systems

• Job title: Data Science Intern, NLP
• Job type: Internship
• Experience level: Entry level
• Salary: $40 per hour
• Degree requirement: Postgraduate Degree
• Tech skills: Python, PyTorch
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chicago, United States

About the role

• NLP intern in a summer program at Vail Systems for research in natural language processing. Working with machine learning techniques focused on speech and text communication modalities.

Responsibilities

• Work with us on some of the challenges in natural language processing (NLP).
• Conduct research in NLP and understand, codify and extract meaning from communication modalities (speech, text).
• Build new or improve existing models using state-of-the-art machine learning techniques.
• Gain insight from trying new machine learning approaches with a team of researchers and transition the research to a proof-of-concept.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Human Computer Interaction, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics or a related field.
• 1+ year experience with machine learning and natural language processing.
• Strong verbal and writing communication skills.
• Ability to independently execute a research agenda and collaborate effectively with other researchers and engineers.
• Proficiency in Python or R.
• Experience with deep learning platforms, such as PyTorch, Tensor Flow, CNTK, specifically as they relate to the implementation of state-of-the-art deep learning models (including, but not limited to transformer-based models).
• Existing body of relevant research contributions, such as peer-reviewed publications at top-tier conferences and journals related to ML/NLP.