Data Scientist (NLP) (m/f/d)

at  cognita Deutschland GmbH

cognita develops the issue and media monitoring software blueReport which collects relevant information from all types of media: online news sites, social media, newspapers, radio and TV. The state-of-theart SaaS platform is continually improved by our development team. Our customers include leading corporations, organizations and media and communication agencies across Europe.
To extend our development team in Berlin immediately we are looking for a full time
Data Scientist (NLP) (m/f/d)

What you will do

• You will develop and evaluate ideas & prototypes to improve the existing product and workflows
• You will work closely with the development and product teams to bring your prototypes to production
• You will establish and lead an in-house data science team which will lift our product to the next level
• You are part of an agile team in Berlin where your contribution makes a difference

What you bring to the team

• With your extensive knowledge of NLP tools and development skills (e.g. R, Python) you can quickly validate ideas, build prototypes and improve existing features
• Named Entity Recognition, Keyword and Topic Extraction and Emotion/Sentiment Prediction are familiar techniques you have worked with
• You have basic experience with Machine Learning (e.g. TensorFlow)
• Your excellent communication skills in English and German help you to bring everyone on the same page and will help you to lead your own team — additional languages are a big plus
• You are connected in the NLP research community to stay up to date and bring new ideas and cutting edge technologies to the team
• You know about agile development methods and ideally you have already worked with developers

Who we are

• We are a straightforward and talented development team in a fast-growing company
• We continually learn from each other due to varied backgrounds and interests
• Supplementary company health insurance
• Great office in Berlin Mitte, well connected to public transportation
• Flexible working hours, no micromanagement, flat hierarchy and of course drinks, fruit & vegetables

Interested? Just send us your application. Questions? Don’t hesitate to ask.
We are looking forward to hearing from you soon

• You will develop and evaluate ideas & prototypes to improve the existing product and workflows
• You will work closely with the development and product teams to bring your prototypes to production
• You will establish and lead an in-house data science team which will lift our product to the next level
• You are part of an agile team in Berlin where your contribution makes a differenc