Data Scientist at Seal Software – a DocuSign Company

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The team
The Analyze and Manage team builds and operates industry-leading analytics products that utilize AI, machine learning and cutting-edge NLP to provide deep insights for our customers. The Machine Learning (ML) team’s primary goal is to maintain and enhance the core analysis engine. In order to keep up with the rapidly evolving field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and ML, certain time is allotted for research. This allows us to lead the trend of automating the contract analysis processes by testing and evaluating the latest ML technology and methods in an inhouse designed lab. As such, we hire people who are excited about working on a groundbreaking and technically challenging AI vision that will be one of DocuSign’s key investments over the next 5 years.
This position
DocuSign is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive machine learning engineer to help build industry-leading state of the art machine learning solutions. You will be leveraging data mining, deep learning, content understanding, image processing and more. You will integrate and deploy machine learning models that deliver more personalized and automated customer experiences.


This position is an Individual Contributor role and reports to Director of Engineering.
Responsibilities:
Work together with the ML team to perform research, testing and evaluation of existing and emerging NLP/ML methods and technologies that could be effectively applied to contractual/legal data
Be knowledgeable in and be able to apply NLP techniques in order to maintain and extend the current rule-based, supervised and unsupervised methods
Be knowledgeable in and able to apply ML algorithms and technologies to NLP tasks such as Named Entity Recognition, POS tagging, Parsing, Sentiment Analysis, Clustering, etc.
Develop an understanding of the technologies, methods and the architecture within Seal's product development. Also an understanding of the entire software development end-to-end process as well as the product code and release management process will be essential
Assist with the development of language agnostic contract clause recognition, including Cyrillic (Russian) and double byte languages such as Japanese, Korean and Chinese
Understand, assist and improved the existing training data maintenance and enrichment process

Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, applied mathematics or related NLP/ML context of study
At least 3 years related projects experience applying NLP/ML technology & methods to text data
Proven skills and experience to perform NLP/ML research, testing and evaluation
IT technology background and applied experience with software design and development
Is "hands-on" and takes the initiative

Preferred Qualifications:
Programming in Java or other object-oriented language is required, knowledge in Python is a plus
Knowledge and experience with Neural Networks and Deep Learning is a plus
Knowledge of and applied experience with text processing toolkits such as GATE is a plus
PhD in Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, Computational Linguistics or related field is a plus

About us
DocuSign helps organisations connect and automate how they prepare, sign, act on, and manage agreements. As part of the DocuSign Agreement Cloud, DocuSign offers eSignature; the world’s #1 way to sign electronically on practically any device, from almost anywhere, at any time. Today, hundreds of thousands of customers and hundreds of millions of users in over 180 countries use DocuSign to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives. Plus, we save more trees together! And that’s a good thing.
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