Senior Applied NLP and Machine Learning Scientist

Job overview

The Senior Applied NLP and Machine Learning Scientist role is onsite in Moscow, ID, five days per week; candidates must live locally or be willing to relocate. Compensation is not specified. The role joins Lightcast’s AI/ML Lab, which develops labor-market intelligence from job postings and professional profiles. The scientist builds and productionizes models across the NLP lifecycle, from experimentation and evaluation to scalable inference. This work turns unstructured labor-market information into structured insights and supports Lightcast’s economic mobility and workforce intelligence mission.

What you'll do

• Build NLP models for classification, extraction, normalization, entity linking, and semantic matching
• develop transformer- and embedding-based models
• fine-tune and adapt LLMs
• evaluate model approaches
• optimize production inference
• develop multilingual models
• design evaluation frameworks and conduct error analysis
• partner with ML and data engineers on AWS deployment
• mentor team members and contribute to modeling strategy.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

nlp

machine learning

llms

transformers

python

pytorch

aws

moscow id

lightcast

onsite

no visa sponsorship

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Requires a master’s degree or PhD and strong production NLP/ML experience. Lightcast does not provide employment visa sponsorship for this position.

About the employer

Lightcast is hiring for this role. Industry: Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services. Sector: 51.