Basis Technology is a leading provider of software solutions for multilingual text analytics and digital forensics. Based in Cambridge MA, Basis has offices in Washington, D.C., London, Tokyo and Tel-Aviv.

We are seeking an NLP Engineer to join our core NLP team in central Tel-Aviv. As a member of the core team you’ll be developing our deep learning infrastructure and applying state of the art machine learning and deep learning techniques to a wide range of NLP tasks: morphological analysis, entity extraction and linking, relationship extraction, text categorization, sentiment analysis and more.

The successful candidate will have an M.Sc. or a PhD in computer science with a focus on natural language processing. Experience in deep learning is a big plus.

Responsibilities:

• Keep up-to-date on academic literature in the fields of interest.
• Develop fast and accurate classifiers for different NLP tasks in different languages.
• Optimize the speed and resource consumption of existing deep learning classifiers.
• Be a part of a Scrum team: join standups, write stories, conduct code reviews, etc.

Qualifications:

• M.Sc. or a PhD in computer science, with experience in NLP and machine learning.
• At least 2 years of experience in writing production-grade software
• Excellent communicator and team player able to work in a geographically dispersed team

Desired Qualifications

• Knowledge of deep learning frameworks (Tensor Flow, PyTorch, Keras, etc.)
• Background in language or linguistics
• Experience with the Java ecosystem (Java, Maven, GIT, etc.