NLP Data Scientist at Uniccon Group

Uniccon Group is the home of innovative and customizable tech products to meet your needs. We combine world-class expertise, experience, and modern tools to scale up your productivity. Valuing and collaborating for the best services have kept us ahead of the market. Individuals, SMEs, organisation, and government agencies achieve more with us.

Uniccon Group owns Africa’s leading hub for STEM research, training, and solutions (STEMFocus). Research is the bedrock of our innovative services in the marketplace, payment gateway, workflow optimization, financial intel, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and e-learning products. We are futuristic and leading with METAVERSE and NFTs in Africa. The operations extend to Agro-commodities processing and export, fashion brands, and general contracting business. It oversees operations across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and other parts of the world. The products are innovative, and customizable to meet market needs. Unicorn Group is a key player in their respective industries.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: NLP Data Scientist

Location: Abuja (FCT)
Employment Type: Full Time

Responsibilities

• Data Handling: Collect, preprocess, and manage large datasets. Perform data cleaning, annotation, and augmentation tsupport model training and evaluation.
• Performance Monitoring: Monitor and analyze model performance in real-world scenarios. Identify issues, troubleshoot problems, and implement improvements as needed.
• Collaboration: Work closely with other data engineers, machine learning engineers and domain experts tunderstand project requirements and deliver effective solutions. Communicate findings and results clearly tstakeholders.
• Research and Innovation: Stay current with the latest research and advancements in NLP and machine learning. Conduct experiments and explore new techniques tadvance our capabilities.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field. A master’s degree or higher is preferred.

Technical Skills:

• Proficiency in Python and understanding in Pytorch is preferred.
• Strong understanding of NLP concepts and techniques, including tokenization, named entity recognition, and dependency parsing.
• Experience with NLP models and architectures such as Transformer, BERT, Tacotron2, Wave Glow, etc.
• Proficiency in data handling, data preprocessing, and data annotation, web scraping. (Required)
• Familiarity with evaluation metrics such as BLEU, ROUGE, WER, and MOS.

Experience:

• Proven experience in data handling, preprocessing and annotation of datasets.
• Demonstrated project experience in speech synthesis, speech recognition, or machine translation.

Soft Skills:

• Strong problem-solving skills and attention tdetail.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability twork effectively in a team environment and adapt tnew technologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with real-world applications of NLP and integration intproduction systems.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications to: [email protected] using  the Job Title as the subject of the mail.