Senior Data Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer, NLP - 1635

Calabasas, CA, US • Posted 6 days ago • Updated 1 hour ago
Full Time
On-site
USD 85.00 per hour
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Job Details

Skills

  • Employment Authorization
  • Data Deduplication
  • SAFE
  • Modeling
  • Customer Communications
  • Machine Learning (ML)
  • Data Science
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Text Mining
  • Python
  • Testing
  • PySpark
  • SQL
  • Pandas
  • Unity
  • Databricks
  • Workflow
  • Evaluation
  • Customer Support
  • Analytics
  • Property Management

Summary

Job Description
City: Las Vegas, NV / Calabasas, CA

Onsite/ Hybrid/ Remote: Hybrid Calabasas (Monday-Wednesday in office) , Las Vegas (5 days onsite)

Duration: 6 months
Rate Range: Upto $85/hr on W2
Work Authorization: All valid EADs except H1B, OPT, CPT

Must Have:

  • 4-6+ years of data science or machine learning experience
  • NLP classification for customer messages or call transcripts
  • Intent, topic, sentiment, and multi-label classification
  • Confidence scoring and model evaluation
  • Text cleaning, deduplication, speaker handling, and PII-safe processing
  • Trend and anomaly detection
  • Python, PySpark, SQL, and pandas
  • Labeled dataset design and annotation workflows
  • Precision, recall, confusion matrix, and drift monitoring

Responsibilities:

  • Build and deploy NLP classification models for customer communications.
  • Develop intent, topic, sentiment, and multi-label taxonomies.
  • Clean and prepare transcript and message data for modeling.
  • Handle short-text cases, duplicate records, system messages, and speaker identification.
  • Build trend and anomaly detection methods using baselines, seasonality, and channel mix.
  • Design maintainable Python and PySpark data pipelines.
  • Define sampling strategies and annotation guidelines for labeled datasets.
  • Support reviewer adjudication and dataset quality validation.
  • Track model precision, recall, confusion patterns, confidence scores, and drift.
  • Implement secure processing for customer communications containing sensitive data.

Qualifications:

  • 4-6+ years of relevant machine learning, NLP, or data science experience.
  • Proven experience deploying NLP models into production.
  • Strong experience with classification systems and text analytics.
  • Advanced Python development and testing skills.
  • Hands-on experience with PySpark, SQL, pandas, and scalable data pipelines.
  • Experience creating and validating labeled datasets.
  • Strong understanding of model evaluation, monitoring, and false-alert reduction.
  • Experience working with governed or PII-bearing data.

Nice to Have:

  • Databricks
  • Unity Catalog
  • Databricks Workflows
  • MLflow
  • Model and data versioning
  • Retrieval and embedding models
  • LLM-assisted classification with evaluation and guardrails
  • Contact-center or customer-support analytics
  • Property-management or real-estate data experience
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  • Dice Id: RTX1d3dc7
  • Position Id: e587b7cac6c9baf0561d736bc1cca9bc
  • Posted 6 days ago
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