Applied Scientist - Ottawa, Canada - Coeuraj

Description

Applied Scientist (NLP), Collaboration Science**For a better future to emerge, we need a new approach that unlocks the human potential for transformation living inside each and every one of us. Are you ready to join Coeuraj to enable this change as our new Applied Scientist?


About Coeuraj**:

Coeuraj is a transformation practice that exists to build a more inclusive, collaborative, and sustainable world.

We help people address change by finding the solutions they hold within themselves using tools that leverage the richness and complexity of human interaction, including collaborative design, data science, and complex systems thinking.

And now, we're looking for Applied Scientist (NLP) to join our growing team in Canada and support people, organizations, and groups to collaboratively solve their challenges—and tackle the complex, global problems humanity faces today.

The Coeuraj Canada team combines world-class designers, facilitators, researchers, and data scientists with a suite of advisors who know the ins and outs of the complex systems we operate in and the diverse communities we work with.

To learn more about us, check out a selection of our past projects and ideas.


The Role:

In the role of Applied Scientist (NLP), you will join our Collaboration Science team— our transdisciplinary research team dedicated to the goal of developing intelligence that helps understand, facilitate, and design human collaboration.

How You'll
Have Impact:

• You will be the expert in unlocking the power of social and behavioural data to make visible the systems people are embedded in, and the perspectives held in existing mental models and world views.
• To develop and scale these solutions, you will work with clients who are major stakeholders in solving issues of global importance through high impact projects.
• You will help define the culture and frameworks for future team members
• Together, we shape outcomes that can have longlasting and transformative impacts on individual people, their organizations and communities, and quite possibly the world.

What You'll
Learn:

• You will work in a multidisciplinary team of experts each of whom brings a different lens to understand collaboration.
• You will work on cutting edge of bringing insights from psychology and behavior science into industry practices.
• You will get to collaborate with some of the best changemakers in the world on systemic issues that are both complex and important.

Your Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

• Work together with your science team to perform research, testing, and model development using ecologically valid behavioural data including conversations, gestures, facial expressions etc.
• Lead the identification and development of solutions using existing and emerging NLP methods and technologies that can be effectively applied to the contract domain.
• You will work with psychologists and data humanists to cocreate novel ontologies that describe human interactions in digital and nondigital spaces.
• Work closely with the engineering partners to deploy models into production, build scalable systems, monitor and improve performance metrics.
• Work closely with Product Management to translate user scenarios and product requirements into designs and plans for robust, customeragnostic machine learning solutions.
• You will develop algorithms to automate ETL requirements for NLP modelling.
• As a member of the technical team, you will be consistently evaluating and recommending new technologies that will form part of our products.

What You Offer:

• 4+ years of experience working in various aspects of NLP data science.
• Expertise in NLP and NLU concepts like preprocessing, computational semantics, topic modelling, word embeddings, etc.
• Proficiency with relational databases and JSON data structures.
• Demonstrated skills with Python or R. Experience with libraries like SpaCy, nltk, wordnet, Gensim. (Ideally have a GitHub space to share)
• Experience with 3rd party APIs like Reddit, Twitter, etc.
• Ability to work in a fastpaced and dynamic environment
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience.
• An interest in humanizing data and using data to understand human systems.
• Passion towards research and developing technologies that help people understand each other better.

What We Offer:

• The chance to be an earlyjoiner in a young company that's rapidly growing its capacity to enable change.
• A work environment where you can be your whole and honest self. We're interested in how you will add to our existing culture and help shape our future.
• A generous annual allowance for staff to use to create and maintain a safe and comfortable workspace at home.
• The encouragement and generous annual allowance for team members to use for their learning and growth.
• A flexible timeoff policy that allows all staff mem