Senior NLP Engineer

Social Discovery Group is the world's largest group of social discovery companies which unites more than 50 brands. For more than 20 years, we have been creating premium international dating services and social discovery apps with a focus on video streaming, AI technologies, entertainment, and game mechanics. Our product portfolio includes Dating.com, Cupid Media, Dil Mil, and many others. The products are already used by more than 500 million users in 150 countries around the world.

SDG Invests in social discovery technology startups around the world. Our Investments include Open AI, Patreon, Flo, RAW, EVA AI, Clubhouse, Magnet, Woebot, Flure, Astry, Coursera, Academia, Harbour, Space, Auto1, DocSend, AppAnnie, Rapyd, Boom Supersonic, Trading, View, K-Health and many others.

We solve the problem of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection with the help of digital reality.

Our digital nomad team of more than 800 professionals works all over the world. Our international team of like-minded people and professionals solves ambitious daily tasks and creates truly global products. We value focusing on results, a proactive approach, and we are always looking for new and unconventional ideas.

Our teams of digital nomads live and work remotely from Cyprus, Malta, the USA, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Australia, Poland, Israel, Turkey, Latvia and many others.

We are looking for a Senior NLP Engineer to join our new product, TheOne.AI.

TheOne.AI is an artificial intelligence platform created by the Social Discovery Group. It is designed for natural communication and entertainment and helps avoid feelings of loneliness.

TheOne is an AI-driven platform designed for authentic interaction and entertainment, helping to combat loneliness. It features a unique profile marketplace with detailed backstories, covering individuals of all ages, genders, and nationalities, each with their unique interests. AI bots behind these profiles offer a personalized communication experience, mimicking real human interactions so convincingly that the line between artificial and real fades away.

These bots can engage in conversations, send voice messages, and share photos and videos, creating a sense of genuine interaction. TheOne allows users to forget they're interacting with AI, offering a deep dive into the world of emotions and interpersonal relationships. It redefines virtual entertainment standards, making every interaction unique and rich, setting a new benchmark for AI developments.

Your main tasks will be:

• Conducting experiments with LLMs: Explore and analyze the effectiveness of different architectures and techniques (SFT, RLHF, Adapters, etc.) to enhance the capabilities of AI models;
• Developing and implementing evaluation methodologies: Implement and maintain robust frameworks to assess the performance, accuracy, and user satisfaction of AI bots, including offline and online metrics;
• Optimizing models for inference: Improve the efficiency and speed of AI models during inference to ensure they meet the performance and scalability requirements for production environments;
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams: Work closely with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to integrate AI solutions into the overall product pipeline.

We expect from you:

• Proficiency in Python, algorithms, and mathematics: Strong coding skills in Python and a solid foundation in algorithms, linear algebra, probability, and statistics;
• Deep understanding of ML and DL principles: Comprehensive knowledge of machine learning and deep learning concepts, including supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning;
• Comprehensive expertise in NLP and LLM: In-depth experience with natural language processing and large language models;
• Familiarity with ML frameworks and tools: numpy, pandas, scipy, scikit-learn, pytorch, transformers;
• English level: B2+.

It will be a plus:

• Experience in distributed training: Ability to implement and manage distributed learning workflows, ensuring efficient parallel training of models across multiple GPUs and nodes;
• Proficiency in C++ and CUDA: Strong skills in C++ programming and experience with CUDA for optimizing and accelerating deep learning algorithms on NVIDIA GPUs;
• Relevant publications: Demonstrated expertise through publications in reputable conferences or journals, showcasing contributions to the field of machine learning and AI;
• Knowledge of cloud platforms: Hands-on experience with cloud services like AWS, GCP, or Azure for training DL models.
  

What do we offer:

• REMOTE OPPORTUNITY to work full time from any location;
• 7 wellness days per year (time off) that can be used to deal with household issues, to lie down and recover without taking sick leave;
• Bonuses up to $5000 for recommending successful applicants for positions in the company;
• Full payment for professional training, international conferences and meetings;
• Corporate discount for English lessons;
• ​Health benefits. If you are not eligible for Corporate Medical Insurance, the company will compensate up to $1000 gross per year per employee according to the paychecks. This can be spent on self-purchase of health insurance, or on doctor’s fees for yourself and close relatives (spouse, children);
• ​Workplace organization. The company provides all employees with an equipped workplace and all the necessary equipment (table, armchair, wifi, etc.) in the locations where we have offices or co-working. In the other locations, the company provides reimbursement of workplace costs up to $ 1000 gross once every 3 years according to the paychecks. This money can be spent on the rent of the co-working room, on equipping the working place at home (desk, chair, Internet, etc.) during those 3 years;
• Internal gamified gratitude system: receive bonuses from colleagues and exchange them for time off, merch, team building activities, massage certificates, etc.
  

If you have the required skills, expertise, and passion for AI products, we would love to hear from you!