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.
