Founded in 2011, Lingua Custodia is the unique Fintech expert in Machine
Learning applied to financial translations. We are developing smart
translation engines specialised by document types or customised for a
client. Our ambition is to help financial institutions to use their
linguistic data more efficiently so that they can spend less time and
money in translation and communicate rapidly and effectively with their
clients whatever their native language may be. Our clients are mid to
large financial institutions (AXA, HSBC, BNP-Paribas, ...) mostly located
in Europe and some in Asia. Lingua Custodia is a founding member of
France Fintech, certified by Finance Innovation since 2014 and member of
the Luxembourg  House of Financial Technology (the LHoFT). The company
is widely recognised for its innovation capability and has been
regularly awarded. We are just about to close a fund raising operation
in order to fuel our growth and international development. Opening a new
office in Luxembourg is already scheduled in September 2019.

Lingua Custodia's team is composed of a diversified mix of profiles,
strongly skilled in their area of expertise, all committed to our
entrepreneurial adventure. But what we value the most at Lingua Custodia
are soft skills: Team spirit, trustfulness, open-minded thinking,
enthusiasm, freedom to try new ideas or practices.

We are currently hiring a NLP Researcher to investigate improvements
in the state of the art for neural Machine Translation.


Responsibilities

The NLP researcher will be part of the R&D team. He/she will design
and implement experiments in the field of Neural Machine Translation,
which will be reported in scientific, technical publications and
demonstrators at international conferences (WMT, EAMT, ACL,
EMNLP). Research activities relate mainly to the folowing topics:


- Automatic data extraction and cleaning methods
- Bilingual Terminology induction from monolingual data
- Terminology control in Neural Machine Translation to ensure the
  reliable translation of specific entities
- Modeling of source sentence coverage during translation
- Document-level Machine Translation
- Machine Translation evaluation

Qualifications

- PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language
  Processing or any related fields.
- Strong track record of successful implementations and publications
  in Natural Language Processing or Machine Learning.
- Experience in Linux environment: Bash scripting.
- Proficiency in Python
- Proficiency in at least one neural framework: TensorFlow, Pytorch,
  MxNet, etc.


Benefits

- Friendly startup environment
- Laptop
- Possibility to work remotely
- Good health insurance


Applications are expected by email: hr@linguacustodia.com

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