Senior Machine Learning Engineer / Data Scientist at Youverify

Youverify is a leading provider of digital identity management and supports innovative Private security companies, Government agencies, FinTech companies, and top tier banks manage KYC, AML in a safe and regulatory compliant manner.

Youverify’s mission is to be the most reliable source of identity, address and background data verification. Since been peer-selected by cohort members of Village Capital PayPal Fintech 2018, Youverify has continued to shift the verification landscape with our product offerings. As a company that provides modern and compliant identity and address verification services for government, global enterprises and start-ups, Youverify knows first-hand how difficult it may be for businesses to verify the identity of their customers, staffs and partners and we want to help to make this process as simple and easy as possible. This is a unique opportunity to work in a fast-growing and product driven environment using new technologies and frameworks as we continue building our identity verification solution.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Machine Learning Engineer / Data Scientist

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• We are looking for for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer / Data Scientist who will be responsible in extracting value from our data and creating artificial intelligence products. You will lead all the processes from data collection, cleaning, and preprocessing, to training models and deploying them to production. Ideal candidate will also be responsible in creating machine learning models and retraining systems.

Responsibilities

• Identifying valuable data sources and automating data collection processes.
• Studying and transforming data science prototypes as well as designing machine learning systems
• Undertake pre-processing of structured and unstructured data.
• Collaborate with engineering and product development teams.
• Run machine learning tests and experiments
• Perform statistical analysis and fine-tuning using test results
• Train and retrain systems when necessary
• Extend existing ML libraries and frameworks
• Analyse large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns.
• Build predictive models and machine-learning algorithms.
• Combine models through ensemble modelling
• Present information using data visualization techniques.
• Propose solutions and strategies to business challenges.

Requirements

• B.Sc in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or relevant field.
• 5+ years’ experience as a Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer, or Data Analyst.
• Expert in python and strong math and statistics skills.
• Strong experience with machine learning algorithms in the areas of NLP, NLU, text analysis, forecasting, and named entity recognition.
• Rest API using Flask.
• Cloud computing with AWS.
• Containers (Docker) and Container Orchestration Framework (Kubernetes).
• Workflow scheduler (Airflow).
• Machine Learning Model lifecycle management using Mlflow, and Kubeflow.
• Experience with graph databases (Neo4j, or AWS Neptune) is a plus.
• Expert in transformer models (BERT).
• Experience with NumPy, Pandas, and Scikit-Learn.
• Expert in any of the following deep learning frameworks: pytorch, TensorFlow, keras, or MXNet.

Salary
N1,000,000 - N1,200,000 / month.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using position applied for as the subject of the mail.
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Application Deadline  4th November, 2022.