Head of Engineering - DL/NLP

Responsibilities :

- Define the short-term tactics and long-term technology strategy.

- Lead the team to implement your technology vision.

- Communicate that technical vision to technical and non-technical partners, customers and investors.

- Lead the development of the organization as it matures into lean, high performing agile teams.

- Scale the development teams by finding and hiring the right mix of on-shore and off-shore resources.

- Work collaboratively with the business, partners, and customers to consistently deliver business value.

- Own the vision and execution of developing and integrating AI & machine learning into all aspects of the platform.

- Drive innovation through the use of technology and unique ways of applying it to business problems.

Experience and Qualifications :

- Master's or Ph.D. in AI, computer science, ML, electrical engineering or related fields (statistics, applied math, computational neuroscience)

- 2+ Publications with proven expertise in defining and validating computational approaches to generate hypotheses using multivariate, Bayesian and machine learning approaches

- Relevant experience leading & building teams establishing technical direction

- A well-developed portfolio of past software development, composed of some mixture of professional work, open source contributions, and personal projects.

- Experience in leading and developing remote and distributed teams

- Think strategically and apply that through to innovative solutions

- Experience with cloud infrastructure

- Experience working with machine learning, artificial intelligence, and large datasets to drive insights and business value

- Experience in agents architecture, deep learning, neural networks, computer vision and NLP

- Experience with distributed computational frameworks (YARN, Spark, Hadoop)

- Experience with distributed systems

- Proficiency in Python, C++. Familiarity with DL frameworks (e.g. neon, TensorFlow, Caffe, etc.)

Personal Attributes :

- Excellent communication skills

- Strong fit with the culture

- Hands-on approach, self-motivated with a strong work ethic

- Ability to learn quickly (technology, business models, target industries)

- Creative and inspired.

Superpowers we love :

- Entrepreneurial spirit and a vibrant personality

- Experience with lean startup build-measure-learn cycle

- Vision for AI and Blockchain

- Extensive understanding of why things are done the way they are done in agile development.

- A passion for adding business value

Note: Selected individual will be part of founding team. That comes with added perks which includes equity.

About Tekst :

Our vision is to help users, enterprises make more intelligent decisions with our AI. We do advance research in the fields of AI, deep learning, NLP, computer vision, Blockchain, and neuroscience. 

About Founder :

Yug Chhabda has previously worked with Nasscom, a VC fund, and also made an exit from the 1st product after graduation from PESIT.