Data / ML

Junior NLP Engineer - Conversational AI

at Lexara AI

πŸ“ Location Vancouver, BC
πŸ“‹ Details Full-time Β· $60k-$100k/yr
πŸ“… Posted

About the Role

Design and ship transformer NLP models at scale

About Lexara AI

NLP-focused AI startup exploring document understanding

Full Description

What you'll do

  • Design and ship transformer-based document understanding models (layout-aware, multi-modal)
  • Improve named entity recognition (NER) and relation extraction across legal and medical domains
  • Own model evaluation pipelines β€” precision/recall dashboards, error taxonomies, regression suites
  • Partner with ML Infra to reduce p99 inference latency without quality degradation
  • Mentor mid-level engineers and lead weekly paper-reading sessions

What we're looking for

  • 1-2 years of NLP engineering experience, with shipped production models
  • Deep familiarity with HuggingFace ecosystem, PyTorch, and transformer fine-tuning
  • Experience with document layout models (LayoutLM, Donut, or similar) is a strong plus
  • Strong Python; comfortable with distributed training on multi-GPU clusters
  • Publications or open-source contributions to NLP research preferred

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Freelance

Pay: $60,000.00-$100,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • Dental care
  • Extended health care

Work Location: In person

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