Natural Language Processing Engineer

About Merlin:

Merlin is a venture backed aerospace startup building a non-human pilot to enable both reduced crew and uncrewed flight. Backed by some of the world’s leading investors, Merlin is scaling alongside our customers to begin leveraging autonomy today to solve some of aviation’s biggest challenges.

About You:

Are you a machine learning expert looking for applications of this technology that truly enhance the world you live in? Would you like to work on enhancing the safety of aviation by building machines that can understand spoken language? Do you want to own a significant portion of a key system for a new product? If so, you might be a good fit for the natural language processing team working on natural language understanding (semantic parsing) here at Merlin Labs.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in development of a speech-to-semantics system optimized for air traffic communication, with a focus on semantic parsing
• Apply existing methods of semantic parsing to improve performance of our system
• Plan and develop experiments to test new ideas for our semantic parser
• Interact with annotators and data collection engineers to expand our systems training and test data
• Collaborate with other NLP engineers to integrate the speech-to-semantics system into our larger pipeline of Merlin's natural language understanding system
• Keep current with research in the semantic parsing community, and communicate discoveries with the rest of the NLP team
  
  
  

Requirements:

• Masters degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• Experience building natural language understanding products for research or commercial environment
• Fluency in Python, competency with C and/or Java
• Experience with deep learning techniques, including implementations via frameworks and libraries such as PyTorch, ArrayFire, and Tensorflow
  
  
  

Nice to Haves:

• Experience developing production-quality software on teams using tools such as Jira, GitHub, and continuous integration pipelines to facilitate project management, code review, and testing
• Experience with both neural and statistical methods of semantic parsing
  
  
  

Merlin Labs offers an innovative, entrepreneurial, and team-focused startup environment. We also offer a top-notch benefits package (health, dental, life, unlimited vacation, and 401k with match) and work/life integration. Being part of the Merlin team allows you to become part of a small team that supports professional development while working together to achieve our mission.

Merlin Labs is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability

status. All job offers are contingent upon the candidate passing background, and reference checks.

At this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or consider candidates who require visa transfers. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

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