Modern Intelligence is seeking exceptional recent graduates and other early-stage researchers to join the team as an AI Research Assistant and contribute to Modern’s in-house research program. You will work closely with the AI research team leads on a wide variety of topics spanning computer vision, NLP, few-shot learning, model optimization, business intelligence, and more. This position is full-time and is based in Austin, Texas.
Responsibilities
- Search and discovery of open-source publications and datasets relevant to research program initiatives.
- Perform exploratory data analysis and engineering tasks such as data cleaning, imputation, normalization, outlier detection, and design ML framework data loaders.
- Design and perform experiments across a wide range of machine learning topics in collaboration with other research team members.
- Build presentations, dashboards, and visualizations to effectively communicate key data insights and trends.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or higher degree in a scientific discipline
- Excellent communication skills, and the ability to work effectively in a team
- Proficiency in coding, statistics, and data science (Python, R, Pandas, scikit-learn, etc.)
- Strong understanding of ML experimental design and statistical inference
- Experience with data visualization tools (matplotlib, seaborn, plotly), dashboards, and Jupyter notebooks
- Must be available for full time employment for a minimum of 6 months
Deeper Qualifications
- Proficiency in at least one popular Deep Learning framework (e.g. Tensorflow or Pytorch)
- Experience in working with popular toolkits for NLP and/or computer vision (Hugging Face, spaCy, timm, torchvision, etc.) and experiment tracking (MLFlow, Tensorboard, wandb, etc.)
- Experience in working with relational databases (e.g., SQL)
- Proven publication experience including academic conferences, whitepapers, blog articles, and verbal presentations.
Pay Range/Benefits:
-$65k - $75k depending on experience
-Full health, dental, and vision insurance
-Free lunch
This role requires US citizenship due to federal contracting guidelines. Cover letters are not necessary, but are welcome if they provide meaningful information about you as a candidate that is not conveyed otherwise.
