Natural language processing expert (m/f/d)

Freelance/temporary employment for a project
Basel Stadt
Start date: asap
Reference number: 837883/1
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Responsibilities

  • Review and optimize a transformer architecture and training pipeline
  • Implement and experiment with advanced techniques to improve performance on fields with severe class imbalance
  • Conduct in-depth error analysis to identify patterns in misclassifications and propose data-driven improvements
  • Refine and validate the data processing, label mapping, and stratified data splitting procedures to ensure maximum reliability
  • Collaborate with our software architect to integrate the final, optimized model into a production-ready API for inference
  • Document the final model architecture, training procedures, performance benchmarks, and best practices for future development

Profile

  • Educational background: advanced degree in AI/NLP or related field
  • Hands-on experience fine-tuning Transformer models
  • Demonstrable experience with multi-task and multi-label classification problems, expertise in handling severe class imbalance in text data
  • Proficiency in deploying machine learning models as REST APIs
  • Strong proficiency in PyTorch, including creating custom model architectures (e.g., multi-head classifiers) and custom loss functions
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to write clean, modular, and well-documented Python code, experience with Docker

Benefits

  • Internal career opportunities 
  • Wolrd-renowned pharmaceutical company 
  • International and diverse environment 

About Hays

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Staffing process for freelance specialists

  1. Analysis of qualifications
  2. Telephone or personal interview
  3. Contact with customers
  4. Contract with Hays
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Contact at Hays

+41 44 225 50 00
Reference number : 837883/1
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