Tasks will include:

1. Building, deploying and maintaining data pipelines and machine learning models.
2. Contributing to the dataset creation by supplementing the already available data with that data that may be relevant to the machine learning activity. 
3. Actively participating in the data preparation process/text preprocessing which involves areas of n-Gram identification, tokenization, stopwords removal, named entity removal, etc.
4. Contributing to data analysis to extract insights from textual data. 
5. Other duties as assigned.

Deliverables:

1. The reproducible script allows someone else to recreate your work by copying and pasting code. Include the required packages, data, code, and a description of your environment.
2. Model performance screenshot – A screenshot of the model evaluation results.
3. Document term matrix – a mathematical matrix that describes the frequency of terms that occur in a collection of documents.
4. Note on sentiment analysis – a short writeup on the model.

Who should apply?

We are looking for mid-career professionals interested in working on multi-national research projects tied to civic technology issues pertinent to sub-Saharan Africa specifically in East Africa.

You must have:

1. At least an undergraduate degree
2. At least 3 years experience with machine learning/deep learning (Preferably experience building machine learning for Natural Language processing).
3. Experience working with both Python and R to build and deploy models.
4. An open mind and desire to try out new things
5. Willingness to teach and share knowledge with others.
6. Competency in Microsoft and Google applications including Word, Excel, and Outlook
7. Possess strong writing and communication skills

Interested?

Excellent!

Please fill this google form with your details, a brief statement of interest telling us why you’re interested in the position, a description of similar NLP/machine learning projects you have worked on in the past and why you believe you are a good fit for the role.

Start date: As soon as possible (This role is a flexible role with a time commitment that can be agreed upon)

Deadline to apply: Friday December 2nd, 2022 but applications will close as soon as we identify the right candidate, so do apply sooner rather than later.

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