NLP/ML/AI Data Scientist Contract

At Uni Systems, we are working towards turning digital visions into reality. We are continuously growing and we are looking for a Business Analyst to join our UniQue team in Brussels!

What will you be bringing to the team?

• Development and maintenance of software applications in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML) and/or Artificial Intelligence (AI);
• Training of custom machine learning / deep learning models based on structured and unstructured data;
• Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques;
• Studies and developments aiming at improving the quality of machine translation (MT) engines for each installed language pair, addressing the specific needs of customers of the service concerning MT quality and contributing to a general strategy for the systematic evaluation and long-term improvement of MT quality;
• Interact with data stewards and other IT stakeholders to define the data rules;
• Define data controls and implement actions to ensure data quality and integrity;
• Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance;
• Data mining using state-of-the-art methods;
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis;
• Design the IT architecture for solitons in the NLP / ML / AI fields, and coordinate its implementation considering master- and meta-data management concepts;
• Analyse data architecture for consistency, completeness, accuracy and reasonableness;
• Contributing for the analysis of data management vision, strategy and policy and derive the IT requirements;
• Contributing to the design of the IT architecture considering master- and meta-data management concepts.

Requirements

What do you need to succeed in this position?

• Master Degree +13 years of working experience
• At least 4 years of specific expertise with:

– Python

– Cloud development in Azure

– Development of AI solutions

• At least 2 years of specific expertise with large language models
• At least 1 year of specific expertise with Python libraries like Langchain, Pandas, etc.
• Excellent knowledge of Perl, Python, Matlab, R and its NLP/ML libraries (SpaCy, NLTK, scikit-learn, pandas…).
• Excellent knowledge of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, Neural Network, and/or artificial intelligence frameworks.
• Excellent knowledge of Data Management
• Good knowledge of AWS and/or Azure;
• Good knowledge of Linux;
• Good knowledge of Unix and Bash;
• Good knowledge of natural language processing systems lifecycle and agile software development methodologies;
• Good knowledge of quality assurance and quality control for machine translation (MT) and experience with MT quality procedures, testing methodologies and tools, such as automatic quality metrics (BLEU scores and similar) and human evaluation of MT quality;
• Knowledge of query languages, such as SQL, Hive, Pig, etc and with information extraction
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, etc.
• Knowledge of data visualisation tools, such as D3.js, GGplot, etc
• Experience in the field of corpus based linguistics;
• Experience with alignment models and classification methods.
• Experience with data analytics over big datasets, non_x001f_structured databases as well as data lakes.
• Ability to understand, speak and write English
• Knowledge of French as an additional asset

At Uni Systems, we are providing equal employment opportunities and banning any form of discrimination on grounds of gender, religion, race, color, nationality, disability, social class, political beliefs, age, marital status, sexual orientation or any other characteristics. Take a look at our Diversity, Equality & Inclusion Policy for more information.