NLP Research Scientist One year fixed term contract (mfd)
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Job Summary
Deezer is seeking an NLP research scientist with a strong academic background to join its Research team for a 1-year contract.
The team conducts long-term exploratory research aimed at advancing knowledge representation of music content and understanding listener interactions with music.
With a catalog of several hundred million tracks and more than ten million users enabling easy browsing song retrieval and music recommendations is a challenge. Your mission will be to develop robust language-focused musical item (i.e. songs artists) representations with the goal of enabling item or user description generation (e.g. playlist captioning user preference summary) and supporting user interaction via natural language queries. This will have direct applications in both the recommender system and the search engine of Deezer.
You will collaborate with other researchers production teams responsible for music recommendation and search and music curators and have access to large-scale data on music content and usage allowing you to have a real-world impact on millions of music listeners.
What you will do:
Define domain-specific evaluation schemes and collect data;
Propose develop and evaluate NLP systems to create a music item representation space from multimodal data;
Collaborate with other researchers and with the recommendation and search; team sharing ideas knowledge and projects;
Scientific watch;
Scientific communication (papers publications blogposts).
Qualifications :
What we are looking for:
The candidate should hold a PhD (or equivalent research experience) and publications in NLP or in a related field.
Deep understanding of state-of-the-art methods in NLP.
Experience with training and fine-tuning language models and machine learning systems. Experience with ML on multimodal data would be a plus
Fluent in Python NLP libraries (transformers NLTK spacy) and a deep learning framework (PyTorch ).
Ability to produce clean and reusable code.
Fluency in English. Knowledge of French would be a plus
Knowledge of the Docker environment would be a plus.
Knowledge of Music Theory would be a plus
At Deezer diversity drives innovation. Whatever makes you uniquely you your experiences your way of thinking your journey might be exactly what we need.
If this role speaks to you and aligns with your interests and capabilities even if you dont meet 100% of the qualifications listed please give it a try and tell us more! #BeYou
Additional Information :
At Deezer you can be your true self as we believe that #everyvoicematters. We strive to build an inclusive culture and foster a diverse environment. Because we care and want to ensure each employee feels welcome and safe at work we continuously focus on fighting biases and helping diverse teams work well together through multiple learning opportunities e-learnings and workshops right from the onboarding :
Regular Diversity & Inclusion internal and external talks
Dedicated employee work streams on Gender Equity Ethnicity & Culture Disability and LGBTQ
English and French courses for all so that everyone can connect and feel included
Beyond benefits like transportation we offer you extra perks like:
A Deezer Premium family account for free
Deezer parties several times a year and drinks every other Thursday
Hybrid remote work policy
If you want to learn more about life and culture at Deezer please visit our Welcome to the Jungle page here!
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- Machine Learning
- Python
- AI
- Bioinformatics
- C/C++
- R
- Biochemistry
- Research Experience
- Natural Language Processing
- Deep Learning
- Molecular Biology
About Company
LIVE THE MUSIC WITH US From a pioneer tech start-up created in 2007, Deezer has become one of the first French unicorns and the second largest independent music streaming platform in the world.At sixteen years old, we’re only just coming of age. Now listed on #EuroNext, Deezer is a ra ... View more
