<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><h2 style="vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(41, 91, 92); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.basistech.com/careers/#nlp-architect-ma" target="_blank" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">NLP Architect – Cambridge, MA</a><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">(see also the less senior <a href="http://www.basistech.com/careers/#nlp-research-engineer-ma">NLP Research Engineer</a>)</span></span></h2><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(37, 47, 53); width: 458.796875px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; padding: 0px 0px
1.2em;">Are you a hands-on natural language processing expert who is ready to play a leading role in the design, development and deployment of cutting edge natural language processing products? If so, Basis Technology would like to talk with you about our current opening for an NLP Architect in Cambridge, MA. If you thrive on leading teams providing advanced text analysis for mission critical systems, then we should talk.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(37, 47, 53); width: 458.796875px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; color: rgb(0, 60, 61);">Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions</h3><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit;">Provide hands-on NLP technical ownership to one or more product teams by:</span><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.3em 18.34375px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; list-style: square;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; color: rgb(173, 203, 133);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; color: rgb(37, 47, 53);">owning the architecture, implementation and evaluation of production-quality NLP algorithms involving both machine-learned (e.g., HMMs, Perceptrons) and rule-based (e.g., RegEx) techniques</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; color: rgb(173, 203, 133);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; color: rgb(37, 47, 53);">facilitating the self-organization of the respective product teams in implementing and evaluating those algorithms</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; color: rgb(173, 203, 133);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; color: rgb(37, 47, 53);">working closely with product owners/managers and engineering executives to prioritize work at both a tactical and strategic level for those product teams</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; color: rgb(173, 203, 133);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; color: rgb(37, 47, 53);">collaborating with the research and development team to assume NLP technical ownership as their efforts are spun out into product teams</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; color: rgb(173, 203, 133);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; color: rgb(37, 47, 53);">interfacing with cross-department subject matter experts in linguistic data, documentation and testing</span></li></ul></div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; vertical-align:
baseline; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(37, 47, 53); width: 458.796875px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; color: rgb(0, 60, 61);">Qualifications</h3><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.3em 18.34375px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; list-style: square;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; color: rgb(173, 203, 133);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; color: rgb(37, 47, 53);">Doctorate or Master’s in relevant subject area (e.g., computer science, computational
linguistics, machine learning, information retrieval)</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; color: rgb(173, 203, 133);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; color: rgb(37, 47, 53);">9+ years professionally applying NLP / Computational Linguistics / Machine Learning, including a history of familiarity with and perhaps publication of cutting-edge research</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; color: rgb(173, 203, 133);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; color: rgb(37, 47, 53);">9+ years professional programming
experience in Java or C/C++</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; color: rgb(173, 203, 133);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; color: rgb(37, 47, 53);">Knowledge of Python or a similar language</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; color: rgb(173, 203, 133);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; color: rgb(37, 47, 53);">Excitement for elegant ideas and high-quality implementations</span></li></ul></div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16px;
color: rgb(37, 47, 53); width: 458.796875px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; color: rgb(0, 60, 61);">How to Apply</h3><div style="padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; width: 458.796875px;">Please send cover letters, resumes and inquiries to: <a href="mailto:jobs-eng@basistech.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(94, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit;">jobs-eng@basistech.com</a> <wbr>with “NLP Architect” in the subject line.</div></div></div> </div></body></html>