VelocityEHS
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Machine Learning Scientist

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Description

 

THE OPPORTUNITY:

*Open to remote candidates*

VelocityEHS is a world pioneer Software Developer company in Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) domain. We are building cutting edge machine learning solutions into our software products to elevate the experience of our customers and enhance the capabilities of our products.

As a machine learning scientist on this growing team, you will take on a role in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) projects VelocityEHS. We are developing NLP components that cover a wide range of languages, and play a central role in indexing, sentiment analysis, feature extraction, event classification, and cross-reference similarity assessment.

You will build relationships with stakeholders and partner teams across multiple departments, analyze natural language data, select suitable rule-based or machine-learning based techniques and advise team members as they make improvements, closing the loop through data, model, application and customer feedback.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Key Responsibilities include:

  • Design and implement natural language processing algorithms to solve complex use cases in traditional industrial scenarios,
  • Iterate existing and developed algorithms by error cases review and analysis,
  • Test, evaluate and refine the complete pipelines regarding accuracy and efficiency,
  • Collaborate with end-user and product owners to understand, break down and prioritize research tasks.

Minimum Skills & Qualifications:

  • Experience with designing, training, fine-tuning, and modifying models using popular deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc)

  • Degree in a quantitative field (computer science, mathematics, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, or similar)
  • 2+ years experience using NLP techniques, including but not limited to Deep Learning (Attention models, Transformers, Word2Vec models, CNN/RNN models, etc)
  • 2+ years experience implementing machine learning related techniques using Python
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Skills & Qualifications:

  • Familiarity with AWS
  • Ph.D. or M.Sc in Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, Computer Sciences, Mathematics or a relevant quantitative area with specialization in natural language processing
  • Scientific thinking and the ability to invent, a track record of thought leadership and contributions that have advanced the field
  • Solid software development experience
  • Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
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What are VelocityEHS Perks + Benefits

VelocityEHS Benefits Overview

Here at VelocityEHS, we place a high value on teamwork and understands that a great culture and work environment help to generate innovative ideas. Our employees are self-motivated, hard-working, enthusiastic and enjoy a great work-life balance.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
VelocityEHS partners with local nonprofits to create volunteer opportunities for our employees, who all have up to 2 days volunteer time to use each year.
Partners with nonprofits
VelocityEHS partners with various local nonprofits for volunteer events, such as One Tail at a Time, Cradles to Crayons, Habitat for Humanity and Ronald McDonald House.
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Employee-led culture committees
Quarterly engagement surveys
Hybrid work model
In-person revenue kickoff
Summer hours
President's club
Employee awards
Flexible work schedule
VelocityEHS provides employees with a work schedule that includes Summer hours, and flexible start and end times as needed to accommodate their busy lives.
Remote work program
We have transitioned fully to a remote-first work model, which allows our employees the flexibility they need to manage work around their lives - not the other way around.
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
VelocityEHS has dedicated training, both at an employee and leadership level, to help continuously educate our community to better understand their own bias and others experience.
Diversity manifesto
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Diversity employee resource groups
Mosaic celebrates cultural diversity at VEHS, FEM is dedicated to the empowerment of women in our community and Pride works to create a safe & open Workplace for LGBTQIA+ Colleagues and Allies.
Hiring practices that promote diversity
VelocityEHS is dedicated to broadening our recruiting pipeline by ensuring inclusive employer branding, leveraging diverse job boards and partnering with schools with diverse student body populations.
Health Insurance + Wellness
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Employees can contribute up to $2750 annually to their FSA.
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
VelocityEHS partners with Bright, an online wellness platform that provides 20 hours of live fitness, mindfulness and health programming every day to our employees around the globe.
Team workouts
VelocityEHS always participates in the annual JP Morgan Chase corporate challenge, but we also offer group workouts like bootcamps and yoga throughout the year.
Mental health benefits
VelocityEHS offers Modern Health to all of our employees, a global mental wellness platform that provides several modalities of care including counseling, coaching, and self-paced online courses.
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
VelocityEHS 401(K) retirement plan matches 50% of an employee's contribution up to 5% of their annual base salary.
Child Care & Parental Leave
Generous parental leave
VelocityEHS has increased their parental leave policy to 16 weeks of paid leave for birth parents and 6 weeks total of paid leave for non-birth parents.
Family medical leave
Company sponsored family events
Vacation + Time Off
Generous PTO
VelocityEHS employees receive between 17 and 32 days per year of paid time off based on years of service, not including additional volunteer and reflection days.
Paid volunteer time
All employees start with 1 day of paid volunteer time per year. We also offer all employees a "day of reflection" to use for personal celebration or education.
Sabbatical
Eligible employees get 1 month sabbatical after 10 years of working at the company.
Paid holidays
Bereavement leave benefits
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Company-sponsored happy hours
Recreational clubs
Fitness stipend
Employees have access to Bright, an online fitness platform offering 20 hours of fitness and wellness live programming every day.
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Employees receive $100 per month to spend how they see fit to optimize their work from home experience.
Onsite gym
Professional Development
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education stipend
The Eagles Education program pays for qualified employees to earn advanced degrees and certifications as it related to their career development and growth.
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks
Paid industry certifications
Personal development training

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