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Cornerstone OnDemand

Lead Data Scientist

Hyderabad, India

Cornerstone provides an AI-powered Talent Experience Platform for unified content discovery, knowledge management, and personalized learning platform for your career journey. Our award-winning Platform is used globally by Fortune 500 companies and government organizations to solve content discovery, curation, and recommendation problems across external, internal, and tacit knowledge sources.

In the Data Science and Machine Leaning team at Cornerstone we are looking for solid hands-on technologists with solid time-management skills and experience in highly autonomous roles. You also function effectively in a collaborative environment and are comfortable making independent decisions.

This would be Mumbai/ Pune/ Hyderabad based role.

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In this role, you will...

  • Work on new initiatives for Machine Learning using conversational NLP techniques and introduce ML-based learning for recommendation and coaching assistant in our products
  • Work with the engineering teams and ensure timely deliveries.
  • Be part of a global Engineering team supporting Fortune 1000 customers worldwide.
  • Ability to experiment and iterate rapidly and provide tangible improvements in the overall engagement

You have got what it takes if you have...

  • Master's or bachelor's degree in computer science or a related study or equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years of hands-on experience architecting and designing highly scalable and resilient systems.
  • Experience in designing & scaling applications based on Data Science, NLP, and conversational AI
  • Understanding of ML algorithms - classical and deep learning and ML frameworks
  • Good understanding of system availability, security, and performance management.
  • Hand-s on work experience in: PyTorch and its ecosystem of libraries, Word and document embeddings, Transformers and Attention, RNN, LSTM, A background in BERT and its variants, transfer-learning practices, NLP Libraries: NLTK, Genism , Spacy, ML-pipelines - Apache Airflow/ Kubeflow/ RAY, OpenAI libraries and Models - LLMs, scikit-learn, Pandas, Numpy , plotting using matplotlib, seaborn, HuggingFace.

Beside the knowledge of framework or libraries, having experience in building the recommendation systems with following algorithms will be considered as a plus:

  • Generative Models i.e. VAE & GAN
  • Collaborative based filtering/ Context aware/Graph based recommender systems
  • Factorization Machine, Deep recommender

Experience with any of the following is considered a plus:

  • TensorFlow, Big-data and PySpark
  • Data wrangling libraries: Beautiful Soup or Scrapy
  • R libraries, Taking models to production
  • Cloud Technologies: GCP/AWS
  • ML Graph Models GNN and NetworkX

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Client-provided location(s): Hyderabad, Telangana, India; Andheri East, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; Pune, Maharashtra, India
Job ID: CornerstoneOnDemand-req9198
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
    • HSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Pet Insurance
    • Mental Health Benefits
  • Parental Benefits

    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Fertility Benefits
    • Family Support Resources
    • Adoption Leave
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Casual Dress
    • Snacks
    • Company Outings
    • On-Site Cafeteria
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Unlimited Paid Time Off
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Leave of Absence
    • Summer Fridays
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Stock Purchase Program
    • Performance Bonus
    • Relocation Assistance
    • Financial Counseling
    • Profit Sharing
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Promote From Within
    • Work Visa Sponsorship
    • Leadership Training Program