Lead DS_TIESL

LLM Engineer

Mumbai, India

WHO WE ARE:

TIFIN is a fintech platform backed by industry leaders including JP Morgan, Morningstar, Broadridge, Hamilton Lane, Franklin Templeton, Motive Partners and a who’s who of the financial service industry. We are creating engaging wealth experiences to better financial lives through AI and investment intelligence-powered personalization. We are working to change the world of wealth in ways that personalization has changed the world of movies, music and more but with the added responsibility of delivering better wealth outcomes.

We use design and behavioral thinking to enable engaging experiences through software and application programming interfaces (APIs). We use investment science and intelligence to build algorithmic engines inside the software and APIs to enable better investor outcomes.

In a world where every individual is unique, we match them to financial advice and investments with a recognition of their distinct needs and goals across our investment marketplace and our advice and planning divisions.

OUR VALUES: Go with your GUT

● Grow at the Edge. We are driven by personal growth. We get out of our comfort zone and keep egos aside to find our genius zones. With self-awareness and integrity we strive to be the best we can possibly be. No excuses.

●Understanding through Listening and Speaking the Truth. We value transparency. We communicate with radical candor, authenticity and precision to create a shared understanding. We challenge, but once a decision is made, commit fully.

●I Win for Teamwin. We believe in staying within our genius zones to succeed and we take full ownership of our work. We inspire each other with our energy and attitude. We fly in formation to win together.

Responsibilities: 

• Drive the research and innovation in a result-oriented direction.
• Stay up to date with the latest research trends, have a high level of curiosity and keep exploring advancements in NLU and their applications in conversational AI.
• Mentor other team members during the experimentation phase and help them narrow down the inconclusive direction.
• Come up with ideas to improve NLU capabilities using transfer learning from historical conversational data.
• Benchmark the prototype on Data to gain the required precision.
• Perform in-depth analysis of failure points of the algorithm on different environments.
• Foresee data requirements for future research projects and come up with innovative approaches for data generation.
• Scale models for multiple domains with the help of DevOps, backend and frontend teams.
• Publish and present successful research in relevant journals and conferences.

Requirements: 

• Experience with training and fine-tuning machine learning models on large text datasets.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and 3+ years of software development experience.
• Track record of thinking big and finding simple solutions while dealing with ambiguity.
• Proven experience as a Natural Language Processing Engineer or other similar roles.
• Good understanding of Natural Language Processing tricks and techniques for semantic extraction, data structure, and modelling.
• Understanding of text representation techniques, algorithms, and statistics Familiarity with R language, Python, and Java.
• Good knowledge of Machine Learning frameworks such as eras, PyTorch, etc.
• Ability to code and design software architectures.
• Problem-solving abilities, communication skills, and analytical mind.
• Proven and successful experience on at least one of the projects amongst information retrieval, machine comprehension, entity recognition, text classification, semantic frame parsing or machine translation.
• Relevant publications, patents or talks delivered at reputed conferences are a bonus. ∙

Work Ex: 8+ years

BENEFITS PACKAGE:

TIFIN offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

· Performance Linked variable compensation.

· Medical insurance

· Tax-saving benefits

· Flexible PTO policy and Company-paid holidays

· Parental Leave: 6 months paid maternity,

2 weeks paid paternity Leave

A note on location. While we have team centres in Boulder, New York City, San Francisco, Charlotte, and Bangalore, this role is based out of Mumbai. 

TIFIN is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and values the multitude of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.