Machine Learning Engineer

Beatrust creates products that enable people to collaborate and self-actualize within an organization. Natural Language Processing and recommendation technologies are at the core of Beatrust's products, and machine learning technologies are used in all aspects of our business to improve the user experience, including analysis of the profiles of Beatrust's users, optimal matching and quick and accurate searches for people, etc. We are always in search of a deeper understanding of human beings, and we use these technologies to develop functions and accumulate data on our data circulation. Beatrust is looking for someone who is looking for a deeper understanding of people, and who can develop functions using the accumulated data, as well as conceptualize and validate the data ecosystem.

Skills and experiences

Minimum qualifications

  • 3 years+ experience as a machine learning engineer or similar role
  • Strong interest in using data and machine learning techniques to explore how people and organizations are/should be
  • Basic knowledge of machine learning, natural language processing and information retrieval
  • Experienced in data analysis and programming in Python
  • Has basic knowledge of cloud environments (GCP/AWS/Azure)
  • Understands Japanese (data will be in Japanese)
  • Understands English (some data will be of English-speaking users, communication with English-speaking members in Beatrust will occur)

Preferred qualifications

  • Interest in and knowledge of advanced machine learning techniques
  • Submit papers to data science or social science conferences
  • Familiar with DBs (MySQL/PostgreSQL/BigQuery)
  • Knowledgeable of statistics and hypothesis testing
  • Experience in analyzing data related to human behavior and attributes
  • Experience building data analysis and machine learning pipelines
  • Experience publishing on topics such as machine learning, natural language processing, recommendations, search technology, etc.
  • Experience in leading and managing development team
  • Contribution to renowned open source projects
  • Kaggle master or above

About the position

Beatrust is currently being introduced to customers in a variety of industries and cultures, and it is necessary to develop functions that enable users to collaborate and self-actualize based on an accurate understanding of the characteristics of users with diverse backgrounds. To this end, we believe it is important to pursue a deep human understanding and incorporate the data generated by users themselves into functions provided to users through machine learning technology and other means.

The ML Engineer will be responsible for developing machine learning-based functions using user data accumulated on Beatrust on a daily basis, as well as exploring the realization of a data ecosystem (a cycle of data utilization) to maximize the utilization of data on Beatrust.

Work description

  • Build and implement model for understanding human behavior from text information (profile, communication logs, etc…)
  • Develop and improve search and recommendation features
  • Development of functions using other data
  • Data collection through crawling, etc.
  • Design and implementation of annotations
  • Understanding and validation of advanced machine learning techniques

Location

Tokyo headquarter (Kanda) or remote

Salary and benefits

Working conditions

  • Salary: In accordance with company regulations
  • Stock option compensation plan: In accordance with company regulations
  • Expenses: Commuting fees, etc.

Benefits

  • Training expense subsidy system, etc.

Vacations and Leave of Absence

  • Flexible working hours
  • Annual holidays: weekends (Saturday and Sunday), national holidays, year-end and new year holidays
  • Annual paid holidays: 10 days per year~ (varies in accordance with the month of employment)

Insurance

  • Health Insurance: Beatrust is a member of the National Health Insurance Association
  • Welfare Pension: Employees are eligible for Japan's public pension system
  • Employment Insurance: Provided mainly during periods of unemployment, childcare leave, and family care leave
  • Industrial Accident Insurance: Provides compensation for work-related disability or death

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