SmartNews is a leading mobile app of news aggregation services. It analyzes millions of articles to deliver most engaging information with high quality in near-real time fashion to millions of users around the world. Our AI Foundation team is responsible to research and develop world-class AI algorithms that can be applied at large scale to accomplish our mission. It works on a range of content understanding, user modeling and recommendation problems, which include natural language processing tasks of classification, entity recognition, summarization, computer vision of image/video processing, collaborative filtering, etc. The team generally produces good content/user signals and state-of-art recommendation models to the News Ranking and Ads Ranking team to deliver the world's high quality information to the people who need it.
Responsibilities
Build and manage an organization that could include multiple teams to accomplish company objectives for developing and implementing state-of-art machine learning algorithms that have product impact
Provide guidance, mentorship, and coaching to the foundation team
Collaborate with key stakeholders and partners to understand business needs, set technical and research roadmap for content-based recommendations.
Lead cross-organizational projects to improve machine learning models that benefit company OKR
Set visions for company’s research direction to be industry leading in areas of personalized discovery, natural language processing and related areas
In this position, you are expected to lead your team members on one or more of the following areas to provide cutting edge solutions or core technologies for SmartNews. At this senior management level, you are required to have overall understanding of corporate AI landscape, and set visions/roadmaps in its directions with senior members of the team
General Machine Learning, Deep Learning
Natural Language Processing (entity recognition, categorization, text embedding, etc)
Knowledge Graph
Recommendation and Ranking Algorithms
Promote AI first culture and distill AI mindset across engineering teams
Requirements
Requirements
3+ years of experience in designing and implementing state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms, and applying them to real world problems
Industry leading expertise in certain domain of machine learning techniques, especially in deep learning, natural language processing, recommendation systems, computer visions
Long term track record of leading AI teams to successfully deliver improvement of features/models to production systems with high impact
Able to build a strong team through hiring, as well as mentoring/growing machine learning scientists by constantly challenging them with solid support
Strong leadership and communication skills
MS or Ph.D in computer science, mathematics, physics or other quantitative fields
Preferred Qualifications
Strong interest in news media and our mission
Strong domain expertise in recommendation algorithms