Main Purpose:
Trafigura is undergoing an exciting Digital Transformation and developing innovative technologies to push the boundaries in Commodities Trading. The Document AI team is a key pillar of this initiative, unlocking the data-rich proprietary documents that pass through our firm to enable high value process optimization and data science use cases.
We are seeking a Senior NLP Scientist to research and development state of the art improvements to our Document AI platform. You will collaborate closely with our Document AI Lead, creating an industry-leading document platform powering our workflows and democratizing data for business and technical users.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:
- 5+ years of experience working on machine learning and NLP problems in production
- Strong coder with demonstrated proficiency in Python
- Strong foundation in classical NLP techniques (e.g. NER, Parts-of-Speech)
- Hands-on experience working with large foundation models and related frameworks and toolkits
- Familiarity with LLMs (e.g. Claude, LLAMA), model fine-tuning techniques (e.g. LORA, QLORA), prompting techniques (e.g. Chain of Thought, GoLLIE)
Key Responsibilities
- Stay current with the latest research in AI and NLP, identifying opportunities for improvement, and implementing them to production
- Maintain rigorous evaluation frameworks to pre-emptively identify biases in our Document AI platform
- Hands-on project delivery of Document AI use cases when required
- Fine-tune LLMs and domain-specific embeddings models for domain-specific tasks
- Mentor and guide data scientists in their model development work
- Example projects you might own in the first 6 months include:
- Implement annotation guideline to improve zero-shot information extraction
- Fine-tune LLMs to improve information extraction from commodity-specific corpuses
- Develop gold standard evaluation metrics for specific use cases
Competencies
- Interest in solving real business problems and dirty data
- Can translate open-ended problems into actionable, short-term goals
- Communicate technical details and high-level strategic plans effectively
Key Relationships and Department Overview:
Key Relationships
- You will work closely with the Digital Transformation Team to understand business requirements and ensure that the Document AI platform continuously meets and exceeds their evolving needs.
- You will work directly with Business users in our front, middle and back offices to build trust and support their business requirements.
- You will support the Data Science & Engineering teams as a Centre of Excellence for Document AI related technology, providing support in the form of knowledge sharing and tooling.
Department Overview
Digital Transformation Team
Reporting Structure
You will report directly to the Document AI Lead.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or handicap, disability, or any other legally protected status.
