We9re hiring a Data Scientist focused on natural language processing to build models that turn unstructured text into product features and business insight. You9ll own problems end-to-end - framing, data, modeling, evaluation, and shipping - and work closely with engineering and product to put your work in front of users. What you9ll do - Design and train NLP models for tasks like classification, entity extraction, retrieval, summarization, and semantic search - Fine-tune and evaluate LLMs (open-source and API-based); build RAG pipelines and agentic workflows where appropriate - Build robust evaluation harnesses - offline metrics, human-in-the-loop review, and online A/B tests - Partner with ML engineers to productionize models (latency, cost, monitoring, drift detection) - Turn ambiguous product questions into well-scoped ML problems and communicate tradeoffs clearly to non-technical stakeholders What we9re looking for - 3+ years of applied ML experience with a meaningful portion in NLP - Strong Python and the modern NLP stack: PyTorch or JAX, Hugging Face Transformers, spaCy, sentence-transformers - Hands-on experience fine-tuning transformer models (LoRA/QLoRA, instruction tuning, preference optimization) and/or building production RAG systems - Solid grounding in evaluation: knows the difference between BLEU/ROUGE/BERTScore/LLM-as-judge and when each is misleading - Comfortable with SQL, vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, or similar), and one major cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) - Clear written and verbal communication; can defend a modeling choice and also admit when a heuristic beats a model Nice to have - Publications at ACL/EMNLP/NAACL/NeurIPS or strong open-source contributions - Experience with multilingual NLP, speech, or multimodal models - Background shipping LLM features in a regulated domain (healthcare, finance, legal) What We Offer - Work from anywhere in the US! Machinify is digital-first. - Top Medical/Dental/Vision offerings - FSA/HSA - Tuition reimbursement - Competitive salary, 401(k) with company match - Unlimited PTO - Additional health and wellness benefits and perks - Flexible and trusting environment where you9ll feel empowered to do your best work The salary for this position is based on an array of factors unique to each candidate: Such as years and depth of experience, set skills, certifications, etc. We are hiring for different levels and the base salary can range from $180k-$230k+ based on your assessed level. Compensation also includes meaningful equity, healthcare, unlimited PTO, and more.