Team Lead NLP Engineer

Social Discovery Group is the world's largest group of social discovery companies which unites more than 50 brands. For more than 20 years, we have been creating premium international dating services and social discovery apps with a focus on video streaming, AI technologies, entertainment, and game mechanics. Our product portfolio includes Dating.com, Cupid Media, Dil Mil, and many others. The products are already used by more than 500 million users in 150 countries around the world.

SDG Invests in social discovery technology startups around the world. Our Investments include Open AI, Patreon, Flo, RAW, EVA AI, Clubhouse, Magnet, Woebot, Flure, Astry, Coursera, Academia, Harbour, Space, Auto1, DocSend, AppAnnie, Rapyd, Boom Supersonic, Trading, View, K-Health and many others.

We solve the problem of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection with the help of digital reality.

Our digital nomad team of more than 800 professionals works all over the world. Our international team of like-minded people and professionals solves ambitious daily tasks and creates truly global products. We value focusing on results, a proactive approach, and we are always looking for new and unconventional ideas.

Our teams of digital nomads live and work remotely from Cyprus, Malta, the USA, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Australia, Poland, Israel, Turkey, Latvia and many others.

We are looking for a Team Lead NLP Engineer to join our new product, TheOne.AI.

TheOne.AI will be a web platform and mobile application featuring various AI characters with unique personalities, temperaments, backstories, and external data. We aim to create a unique and highly realistic communication experience, similar to how you build relationships in a dating app or social network. We are confident that our expertise in online communication and strong team will help us create a competitive product. Our goal is to make our model as human-like and empathetic as possible, ensuring that interacting with it feels natural and effortless.

Your main tasks will be:

• AI-Bot Development: Lead the creation and enhancement of an AI-bot for effective user communication on the theone.ai platform, ensuring it aligns with the latest NLP technologies. Ensure the highest quality of AI-bot interactions and functionality, overseeing the development of testing strategies and continuous evaluation of product metrics for optimization. Establish an automated data annotation system for continuous improvement of models with a focus on efficiency and accuracy;
• Architecture Roadmap: Responsible for the architectural roadmap, designing scalable and robust system architecture that supports evolving project needs;
• Business to Technical Translation: Translate business requirements into technical specifications for the development team, ensuring clear metrics and a well-defined ‘Definition of Done’ are established;
• Process Optimization: Innovate and implement operational processes to maximize team efficiency and project delivery.

We expect from you:

• System design:
  • Experience and knowledge in building dialog systems end-to-end
    • Data;
    • Benchmarking and Evaluation;
    • Approach selection;
    • Aligning with business metrics / needs.
• Modeling:
  • Well acquainted with modern LLM's and tuning methods;
  • Ability to make modifications to the architecture / losses, etc., as needed.
• General skills:
  • Awareness of modern research in the field of Conversational AI, NLP in general;
  • Strong knowledge of Pytorch, Python;
  • Skill in setting tasks and managing a team.

What do we offer:

• REMOTE OPPORTUNITY to work full time from any location;
• 7 wellness days per year (time off) that can be used to deal with household issues, to lie down and recover without taking sick leave;
• Bonuses up to $5000 for recommending successful applicants for positions in the company;
• Full payment for professional training, international conferences and meetings;
• Corporate discount for English lessons;
• ​Health benefits. If you are not eligible for Corporate Medical Insurance, the company will compensate up to $1000 gross per year per employee according to the paychecks. This can be spent on self-purchase of health insurance, or on doctor’s fees for yourself and close relatives (spouse, children);
• ​Workplace organization. The company provides all employees with an equipped workplace and all the necessary equipment (table, armchair, wifi, etc.) in the locations where we have offices or co-working. In the other locations, the company provides reimbursement of workplace costs up to $ 1000 gross once every 3 years according to the paychecks. This money can be spent on the rent of the co-working room, on equipping the working place at home (desk, chair, Internet, etc.) during those 3 years;
• Internal gamified gratitude system: receive bonuses from colleagues and exchange them for time off, merch, team building activities, massage certificates, etc.

If you have the required skills, expertise, and passion for AI products, we would love to hear from you!