We’re DefinedCrowd Corporation (http://www.definedcrowd.com), headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with a R&D center in Lisbon, Portugal. We provide machine learning training data for artificial intelligence products and applications internationally. Our clients ranges from Fortune 500 companies to cutting-edge AI and robotics companies and we just got invested by Amazon and Sony. We are a Microsoft Accelerator alumni company, and we are recognized as the fastest growing company in the big data arena for AI. As we continue to expand our international footprint at DefinedCrowd, we are looking for talented new members to join this energetic, hardworking and fun team in both Seattle headquarter and in Lisbon R&D center. As we continue to grow at DefinedCrowd, we are constantly challenging ourselves with finding the most efficient way to manage business operation, building most suitable and sustainable models for our lines of business, creating a highly recognized and trusted brand among both clients and crowd communities.

Current job offers:

Data Scientist (Seattle or Lisbon)

We’re looking for a Data Scientist with an NLP background reporting to the CTO to drive the data science strategy and quality control using machine learning for DefinedCrowd.

Main requirements

• MSc/PhD in Computer Science or equivalent with experience in Machine Learning (including DNNs), Artificial Intelligence or Statistics.

• Creative thinking with the ability to drive their ideas into technology.

• NLP background or experience.

• Proactivity, initiative, positive attitude, ability to solve problems creatively.

• Excellent speaking and writing skills in English.

Nice to have

• Enterprise experience in this area.

• Experience with both supervised and unsupervised learning.

• Data warehousing and ETL.

• Knowledge of ML platforms such as Azure ML, Google Tensor, IBM Watson.

• Experience in statistical analysis and respective tools (e.g. SPSS).

• International publications in this area.

Technical Program Manager (Seattle or Lisbon)

We are looking for a Program Manager with an NLP background reporting to the Program Manager Lead in Lisbon. He/she will be responsible for helping managing customer deliverables, defining data quality, working with the Engineering team on the platform features, validating quality against customer requirements and data reporting and analytics. Scripting and basic programming skills will be required.

Required skills:

• BA or Masters in Linguistics or equivalent. Masters in Computational Linguistics is a plus.

• Experience in project management: gathering requirements; planning; resource allocation; communication with developers.

• Technical Skills: Python; Perl; Regular Expressions; SQL; Excel; Microsoft Office Suite;

• Proficiency in more than 2 languages.

• Proactivity, initiative, positive attitude, ability to solve problems creatively.

• Excellent speaking and writing skills in English.

• Good communication skills and ability to work with ambiguity.

• Able to work with flexible hours when the interactions with Seattle headquarters is needed or with overseas customers and partners.

Please submit your resume to hr@definedcrowd.com. We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Positions opened until filled. Date: 09/10/2016