Principal Data Scientist - Remote

LivePerson is a transformational force in how brands and consumers communicate. With over 18,000 brands, including HSBC, Verizon, and Home Depot, we are on a mission to make life easier for people and brands everywhere through trusted Conversational AI. We believe in a future where conversations are the norm for getting your intentions fulfilled - whatever they are.  

We are an innovative, intent-driven company that believes in building the future and we are looking for growth minded, unconventional thinkers, developers and builders to join the team.

You will thrive here if: 

• You can operate in a fast paced, dynamic environment
• You can build partnerships that move our business forward
• You build code that is simple, understandable, and clean 
• You see feedback or failure as motivation to learn and to grow
• You believe data-driven decision making is the norm
• You relate to our core principles and want to work with Conversational AI experts

In this role you will:

• Create, develop, and apply machine learning approaches to conversational decision making and dialogue management in both a commercial and research setting
• Use your expert knowledge of state-of-the-art methods and tools to consistently find the most effective, efficient, stable, explainable, and elegant approaches
• Design and build modern, flexible machine learning training pipelines
• Analyze large scale conversational datasets
• Bringing research-driven models to life within production systems
• Creating durable, flexible scientific deployment and experimentation capabilities
• Work on challenging unsupervised and semi-supervised problems related to dialog management, and create pipelines to accelerate and scale this effort
• Use and present research findings in ways that inform and sometimes guide business and product strategy
• Lead publication efforts in top dialogue conferences such as ACL, SIGdial, Neurips, Interspeech…etc

Your qualifications are:

• Masters/PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, or a related field
• Publication history in AI/ML/NLP conference with a focus on dialogue management research OR extensive experience within the commercial space working on production dialogue management systems.
• Hands on experience with Deep Learning for dialogue management 
• Analysis, problem-solving, communication, and critical-thinking skills
• Strong understanding of Machine Learning fundamentals
• Strong programming experience in Python
• Strong communication skills and a team player