Senior Scientist, NLP Research

Company: Aon
Location: Spokane
Posted on: September 3, 2020

Job Description:

Aon is looking for a Senior Scientist, NLP Research

As part of an industry-leading team, you will help empower results for our clients by delivering innovative and effective solutions supporting IP Solutions in Spokane, Washington or remotely.

Your impact as a Senior Scientist, NLP Research

Job Responsibilities

* Research NLP approaches to address domain specific challenges

* Run a data science/modeling project from start to finish with help from domain experts and other coworkers.

* Code solutions using appropriate languages and libraries

* Test research outcomes against a given objective to evaluate applicability of cutting edge NLP approaches

* Prepare coded solutions and facilitate hand off to engineering teams to ensure the realization of commercial value from research efforts

* Represent the leadership and management in a way that mirrors the adopted mission, core values, and culture

* Educate members of Aon's network with thought leadership that shares best practices

You Bring Knowledge and Expertise

Required Qualifications

* 3+ years of experience in machine learning techniques for text classification

* 3+ years of experience using NLP techniques such as topic modeling, part of speech tagging, document similarity, and named entity recognition

* Deep understanding of one or more of the common NLP library's (NLTK, spaCy, etc.)

* Preferred Qualifications

* Experience creating similarity metrics for text documents or document classification techniques

* Published papers in the field of text classification

* Experience implementing novel active learning techniques

* Experience with PyTorch, Keras, and TensorFlow

* Understanding of different word embedding techniques

* Experience creating convolutional and recurrent neural networks

* Experience using unsupervised clustering techniques for text documents

* Bias for action and results

Education

* Master's degree in a scientific field such as computer science, applied statistics, or computational linguistics

* PhD or equivalent in a scientific field such as computer science, applied statistics, or computational linguistics preferred

We offer you

A competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.

Our Colleague Experience:

From helping clients gain access to capital after natural disasters, to creating access to health care and retirement for millions, Aon colleagues empower results for our clients, communities, and each other every day. They make a difference, work with the best, own their potential, and value one another. This is the Aon Colleague Experience, defining what it means to work at Aon and realizing our vision of empowering human and economic possibility. To learn more visit Aon Colleague Experience.

About Aon:

Aon plc (NYSE:AON) is a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions. Our 50,000 colleagues in 120 countries empower results for clients by using proprietary data and analytics to deliver insights that reduce volatility and improve performance.

By applying for a position with Aon, you understand that, should you be made an offer, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with Aon's employment policies. Background checks may include some or all of the following based on the nature of the position: SSN/SIN validation, education verification, employment verification, and criminal check, search against global sanctions and government watch lists, fingerprint verification, credit check, and/or drug test. You will be notified during the hiring process which checks are required by the position.

Aon provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran, marital, or domestic partner status. Aon is committed to a diverse workforce and is an affirmative action employer.

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Aon is looking for a Senior Scientist, NLP Research

As part of an industry-leading team, you will help empower results for our clients by delivering innovative and effective solutions supporting IP Solutions in Spokane, Washington or remotely.

Your impact as a Senior Scientist, NLP Research

Job Responsibilities

* Research NLP approaches to address domain specific challenges

* Run a data science/modeling project from start to finish with help from domain experts and other coworkers.

* Code solutions using appropriate languages and libraries

* Test research outcomes against a given objective to evaluate applicability of cutting edge NLP approaches

* Prepare coded solutions and facilitate hand off to engineering teams to ensure the realization of commercial value from research efforts

* Represent the leadership and management in a way that mirrors the adopted mission, core values, and culture

* Educate members of Aon's network with thought leadership that shares best practices

You Bring Knowledge and Expertise

Required Qualifications

* 3+ years of experience in machine learning techniques for text classification

* 3+ years of experience using NLP techniques such as topic modeling, part of speech tagging, document similarity, and named entity recognition

* Deep understanding of one or more of the common NLP library's (NLTK, spaCy, etc.)

* Preferred Qualifications

* Experience creating similarity metrics for text documents or document classification techniques

* Published papers in the field of text classification

* Experience implementing novel active learning techniques

* Experience with PyTorch, Keras, and TensorFlow

* Understanding of different word embedding techniques

* Experience creating convolutional and recurrent neural networks

* Experience using unsupervised clustering techniques for text documents

* Bias for action and results

Education

* Master's degree in a scientific field such as computer science, applied statistics, or computational linguistics

* PhD or equivalent in a scientific field such as computer science, applied statistics, or computational linguistics preferred

We offer you

A competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.

Our Colleague Experience:

From helping clients gain access to capital after natural disasters, to creating access to health care and retirement for millions, Aon colleagues empower results for our clients, communities, and each other every day. They make a difference, work with the best, own their potential, and value one another. This is the Aon Colleague Experience, defining what it means to work at Aon and realizing our vision of empowering human and economic possibility. To learn more visit Aon Colleague Experience.

About Aon:

Aon plc (NYSE:AON) is a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions. Our 50,000 colleagues in 120 countries empower results for clients by using proprietary data and analytics to deliver insights that reduce volatility and improve performance.

By applying for a position with Aon, you understand that, should you be made an offer, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with Aon's employment policies. Background checks may include some or all of the following based on the nature of the position: SSN/SIN validation, education verification, employment verification, and criminal check, search against global sanctions and government

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