Who We Are?

Ranked as one of the fastest growing technology companies on the Deloitte Fast 50 India 2014 survey, at Talentica our vision is to be the # 1 company doing core product development work for start-ups ! So far we’ve built over 130+ innovative products and have worked with some of the hottest start-ups across the globe. We hire technology addicts and encourage them “to create” by understanding the product vision, business context and practical usage.

What we do?

• Build products - Be it building a payment gateway from scratch or Setting up world’s # 1 ad Serving platform or Innovating premium video-mailing software for corporates, we transform our customer’s ideas into successful products.
• Learn Continuously - Innovation is our DNA. We explore and add value to our customer’s business by being on top of technology.

Our Culture

• Colleagues, who inspire, challenge and match up – We’ve flocked some of the finest engineering potential in the country, we hire ONLY from a select few premium engineering institutes
• Open work culture - Openness and Transparency is the way we are, we express, hear and enable your ease and growth

Your Role

• Build Talentica as a thought leader in ML / AI technologies
• Add value to our customers through technical innovation and building technical competence across Talentica in ML / AI.

Top Accountabilities

• Solving customer problems through innovation and technical expertise
• Identify new tools and technology areas that would benefit our customers and ensure that some of them get adapted by the customers
• Showcase our AI / ML expertise by presenting in conferences and by contributing to open source projects
• Building a team of Data Scientists / ML experts.
• Building a culture of innovation and technology expertise

Authorities

• Own the budget for the team
• Own all staffing decisions for the team
• Team participation in conferences - as per the allocated budget

Desired Skills and Experience

• Strong expertise and / or demonstrated ability to learn, architect and implement solutions to AI / ML problems
• Being hands on with an ability to build quick prototypes to demonstrate new technology / algorithm benefits to our customers and internal stakeholders.
• Positive “Can do” attitude a must. Results oriented with discipline to deliver on commitments.
• Leadership to motivate the team and to set a high bar for technical excellence.
• Strong orientation towards customer satisfaction and high quality of deliverables
• Experience of speaking at conferences

Technical background

• Industry experience in solving problems in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language processing, Statistical modelling and Visualization techniques
• Should have published papers in or been a speaker at A / B level conferences
• Experience in Python, R etc.
• PhD in Computer science, Mathematics or related disciplines from a premium institute