Finquest is the premier platform delivering personalized connections to its clients who seek M&A and direct investment opportunities in the Asia Pacific, European and North American mid-market space. With a unique database, machine learning and a team of experts, Finquest provides targeted, curated, and actionable connections, whilst maintaining complete confidentiality throughout the process. With Finquest, clients can broaden their market access, creating a more efficient deal making environment.
To strengthen our R&D team, we are looking for a Data Scientist with background in NLP and information retrieval. You will have the opportunity to work in a fast-growing team and have a great impact on our products and services that strongly benefit our clients.
Key Responsibilities:
· Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale information extraction and retrieval, data analysis, machine learning model design and validation.
· Work closely with data and engineering teams to analyze data from various data sources, and to extract valuable information from these sources.
· Leverage state-of-the-art machine learning research to build innovative products from existing data and offer added value to our clients.
· Conduct applied research in cooperate data and contribute to IPR tasks.
· Other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
· Master’s degree in Computer Science with minimum 3 years of experience as a Data Scientist, or PhD degree in Machine Learning/Data Mining.
· Strong background in information retrieval, especially in NLP, knowledge graphs, graph/network mining, and/or recommender systems.
· Experience in financial/economic databases, cooperate research or FinTech.
· Strong programming skills in Python and strong hands-on prototyping skills.
· Comfortable to follow latest research articles and to implement and improve state-of-the-art approaches.
· Fluency in English.
Would be a plus:
· Understanding of deep learning algorithms and hands on experience with pertinent libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Caffe, Keras, NetworkX, …).
· Publications or open-source projects in Machine Learning related topics.
· Proven track record for writing high quality production-level code.
· Experience in large scale machine learning tasks.
· Expertise in optimization algorithms.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Finquest is a fast-growing Fintech company, with headquarters in Singapore and additional offices in New York, London, Paris, Luxembourg, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Bangalore.
Finquest’s mission is to reinvent deal origination by harnessing the power of data, AI, and people. Our team speaks more than 15 languages, and we pride ourselves on our diverse and collaborative office environment across our offices.