AI Group - NLP Research Engineer

Textual data is key to understanding how events in the world impact our clients. As the amount of unstructured data has increased, natural language processing has become a key tool for Bloomberg to deliver analytics faster, more accurately, and at a larger scale than ever before. Whether it's analyzing the social media sentiment of companies over thousands of tweets per second, automatically extracting key indicators from press releases and filings before the rest of the market, or helping our clients derive intelligence from their internal communications by identifying entities and intents, NLP has enabled Bloomberg to maintain its edge as the market leader in financial data and communications.

The AI Group is the central engineering group with over 150 researchers and engineers working together to build data-driven customer-facing products, as well as AI infrastructure and algorithms used by engineers across the company. We also publish papers, attend conferences, organize workshops, and contribute back to the larger AI and open source community whenever we can. Broadly, we are looking for colleagues to who are passionate about:

• Software engineering
• Parallel and distributed systems
• Natural language processing
• Information retrieval
• Information extraction
• Reinforcement learning
• Graphical models
• Recommender systems
• Knowledge graphs
• Automatic speech recognition
• Machine learning for finance (pricing and recommendation)

• Collaborate with colleagues on production systems and applications
• Design, experiment, and evaluate algorithms as well as models
• Write, test, and maintain production-quality code
• Represent Bloomberg at scientific and industry conferences
• Publish research findings in leading academic venues

• Bachelors, Masters, or a Ph.D. in CS, ML, Math, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, Quant, or relevant industry experience.
• Proficiency in modern programming languages such as Python, C++, or Java
• Proficiency in software development

 
If this sounds like you, apply! In addition, do check out our blog, http://TechAtBloomberg.com/AI, to learn more about our publications and projects. 

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