Location: Hybrid (2 days in London)

Salary: £70,000 - 90,000 (flexible) + bonus + equity

Work at the forefront of applied NLP research to enhance our AI-powered, automated research platform.

Every business, charity or institution in the world needs to know who they are doing business with. Xapien helps them answer that question – quickly and accurately.

Our AI-powered automated platform revolutionises background research.

Gathering meaningful and relevant information on who you are engaging with is difficult, expensive and time-consuming. It takes hours of manual work to find, review and analyse the ever-growing volume of data available.

We enable organisations to gain a full picture of who they’re doing business with - in minutes.

Xapien uses deep AI, NLP and machine learning to collate, read and distil vast amounts of online information quickly and comprehensively. In the time it takes to make a coffee.

We are looking for a highly experienced Lead NLP Engineer to build cutting edge technology and pioneering IP at the very heart of our business.

The role will involve the mentoring of 2 NLP Engineers and the scope to progress as the company grows further.

You will be engaged in applied research through to full-scale production, pushing boundaries and delivering truly unique solutions.

Reporting into the CTO, you will get the opportunity to work with:

• Knowledge graph extraction
• Entity linking for contextual enhancement
• Event extraction, distillation and machine summarisation

As well as being highly proficient in Python, you will have, proven commercial technical skills in the following:

• SPACY
• Transformer Models (including fine tuning)
• Linguistic parses and NER
• Text classification
• Information extraction

We would love to see someone with a real passion for the field of NLP. Someone who loves reading about and experimenting with new techniques, models and assimilating research from industry and academia to ensure we are always working with the strongest technologies and concepts to achieve our goals.

What else can we tell you? 

We offer a supportive, flexible and collaborative working environment.

Top-of-the range kit, flexible working hours and access to any of WeWork’s London offices means you can plan your workday around your own schedule. And we invest in your development with a £1k professional development budget per year.

We have a hybrid working model. Our team get together in any of the WeWork offices in Waterloo, Kings Cross and across London at least twice a week. Other days can be working from home or office - it's up to you.

Here are the full benefits:

• Shares / equity in the business - you will own a stake in what you're working on.
• Regular salary reviews
• Generous bonus plan
• Unlimited holiday
• High-spec Macbook
• Full support in setting up your home-office including a monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad etc.
• Access to WeWork offices across the UK
• Regular team lunches, drinks and activities.
• Flexible working hours
• Life insurance
• Private Health
• Pension
• £1k annual professional development budget.

If you're keen to join our growing team then we would love to talk to you. Just click through to start the conversation!