Junior Data Scientist for Conversational AI / NLP / NLU company in Vienna

“Learn, grow and change the world!”

ONDEWO is an award-winning Austrian high-tech company in Vienna. Our vision is to create the artificial intelligence (AI) operating system for human <> machine communication of the future with the motivation to make machines more intelligent to help humans better. ONDEWO is becoming the leader for automating phone calls in German and German-based dialects. With our in-house developed AI algorithms for Speech-2-Text, Natural Language Processing & Understanding, conversation automation and Text-2-Speech we automate thousands of phone calls simultaneously.

Working at ONDEWO is fast-paced, challenging and fun with highly-intelligent, motivated colleagues. We work in a flat hierarchy environment and come from all over Europe. We received many awards, do interesting research projects, international customers, a fancy office in 7th district next to Mariahilfer Straße, and super smart people, motivated to change the way people interact with machines.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead machine learning and data science projects on the cutting-edge of technology
• Analyze large behavioral user data sets from our international clients, come up with new data models and implement concepts and algorithms in Python and TensorFlow
• Build, train, evaluate, benchmark and tune machine learning and deep learning models
• Be part of a cross functional team to work on continuous improvement of our systems with innovative technologies and research techniques
• Keep up to date with the latest technologies, evaluate new tools and learn new techniques
• Write reusable, testable, and efficient code - we love to “type” everything
• Participate in design, code and architecture reviews and coach other team members

DESIRED QUALITIES

• University degree (MS/PHD) in computer science, physics, mathematics, electrical engineering, data science or equivalent industry experience
• Minimum of 2 years experience in Python data science technology stack (e.g., TensorFlow, Keras, scikit-learn, NLTK, Spacy, Pandas, numpy, Jupyter)
• Working knowledge of some visualization tools (e.g. matplotlib)
• Exceptional algorithmic problem solving skills and passion for mathematics
• Experience in natural language processing (NLP) and understanding (NLU) related machine learning models, techniques and best-practices
• Strong track record of successfully delivered data products, services or insights where you had to understand complex data flows and business processes
• Loves working with cutting-edge technologies, research techniques and algorithms
• Strong team player mindset and great to work with
• English fluency, both written and verbally (fluency in German or another language is a plus)

SALARY
According to “IT Kollektivvertrag” the yearly salary is 35.252 EUR (14x monthly salary of 2.518 EUR). However we pay much more and offer employee stock options dependent on the qualification, education and experience. Salary increases fast when showing exceptional performance.

*Apply now at https://ondewo.com/en/career/ *