Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Contractor) 🧑💻
Filevine is forging the future of legal work with cloud-based workflow tools. We have a reputation for intuitive, streamlined technology that helps professionals manage their organization and serve their clients better. We’re also known for our team of extraordinary and passionate professionals who love working together to help organizations thrive. Our success has catapulted Filevine to the forefront of our field - we are ranked as one of the most innovative and fastest-growing technology companies in the United States by both Deloitte and Inc. Our Mission is building the seamless intersection between legal and business by creating a world-class platform to help professionals scale.
We're a team of driven, enthusiastic problem solvers with strong backgrounds in machine learning, engineering, product management, legal and operations, on a mission to help attorneys resolve cases faster, for better outcomes. We're combining cutting edge models, approaches, and technologies with precise human in loop and data annotation processes. After achieving state-of-the-art results in automatic transcription, we're now pushing the boundaries in advanced NLP problems such as summarization of medical records and legal depositions, or automations of other legal workflows. We have many challenges to solve, which is exactly where you'll start if you join us.
Key Responsibilities
Develop and improve NLP models for tasks such as medical summarization, credibility analysis, and contradiction detection
Continuous improvement of our automatic transcription pipeline and automation of internal processes using AI
Ensure high accuracy, stable processes, and optimized infrastructure/monitoring around the models
Effectively communicate technical machine learning results in a business context
Collaborate with our full-stack engineering team to ensure seamless implementation of ML models in production
Promote excellence and best practices across the machine learning team in research, implementation, tooling, and system design
Conceptualize and implement new ML ideas in the NLP domain, from validation to production
Requirements
Good communication and writing skills in English
At least 3 years of experience in machine learning roles involving end-to-end ownership of projects
Strong background in NLP; experience with ASR is a plus
Advanced experience with PyTorch or other modeling toolkits
Good understanding of software engineering principles
Working experience with deep learning techniques, particularly in NLP applications
Team spirit and independent problem-solving mindset
Experience with or interest in legal or medical domain NLP applications is a plus
Ability to meet periodically in our Prague office as we value in-person collaboration
We are using mostly Python, React, Typescript, Kubernetes and AWS. We care about your engineering skill rather than specific language framework or tooling
Estimated Time Commitment: 160 hours/month
We’d love to connect
This opportunity is for independent contractors and is not intended to establish an employment relationship. Contractors are responsible for their own taxes and compliance with applicable laws in their jurisdiction.