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Artificial Intelligence (AI)is transforming government. Across Defense, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security and Emergency Management, Sciences, Natural Resources and Regulatory functions- all are recognizing the power of human-machine teaming. Nothing moves in AI and machine learning (ML) without training data, and only high-quality training data can produce accurate and robust AI/ML powered solutions. Creating high quality training data at the scale necessary to meet the demands of our government mission partners is incredibly challenging. Few companies can do it. Even fewer can do it well. Since 2017, Figure Eight Federal has proven it can do both.

In March 2019, Figure Eight was acquired by Appen. Headquartered in the National Capital Region, Figure Eight Federal was created to specifically serve the needs of our government customers. Together, Appen and Figure Eight Federal, combine the best of human and machine intelligence to provide high-quality annotated training data that powers the world’s most innovative machine learning (ML) mission solutions. The Figure Eight platform enables ML and data-driven business solutions to scale across a diverse set of industries including retail, automotive, finance, manufacturing, agriculture, life sciences, robotics, and more. The Figure Eight platform transforms audio, video, text, and images into high-quality annotated data to support a variety of use cases ranging from computer vision and search relevance to data categorization and natural language processing (NLP). Learn more at www.f8-federal.com.

Provide onsite analytic support to a growing interactive web application for big-data visualization that covers multiple countries and geographic regions.

Requirements:

• Proficient in PostgreSQL/PostGIS databases and able to insert, process, and run SQL queries to produce geospatial layers
• Proficient in ESRI software to properly symbolize complex data layers and create map projects
• ISSA/TS

• Coordinate with data providers to acquire data relevant to the project; evaluate, clean, and format data sources; and upload data to a PostgresSQL database. Data may include, but are not limited to, commercial satellite imagery, aerial photography, remote sensing data, maps, charts, GIS data sets in vector or raster format, and integrated GIS products
• Run defined spatial queries in the PostgreSQL databases to generate the program’s analytic output. Modify spatial queries as directed by the Sponsor to generate new geospatial layers
• Produce geospatial data, including but not limited to, 3D scene visualizations and animations, change detection products, and feature extractions. The subcontractor shall ensure the data is in a compatible format to be ingested into the web application
• Conduct geospatial and statistical analysis to support the Sponsor. This analysis could include identifying spatial and temporal patterns in event data, threat analysis, and the creation of fused imagery and GIS products to put multiple sources of intelligence in spatial context. This analysis may be expressed in the form of briefing slides, maps, charts, graphs and written summaries
• Analyze geospatial data to identify geospatial and temporal patterns and relationships
• Provide metadata, commented code, user manuals, system requirements, system security plans, and any other documents required for future users to learn, implement, and maintain the products or methodologies developed
• Identify and improve or modernize inefficient geospatial workflows and integrating new ESRI stack technologies to improve delivery of geospatial information to Sponsor analysts. Manage and scale date and services to meet mission needs

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Kensho is a 100-person Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) company, centered around providing cutting-edge solutions to meet the challenges of some of the largest and most successful businesses and institutions. We are owned by S&P Global and operate independently. Our toolkit illuminates insights by helping the world better understand, process, and leverage messy data. Specifically, Kensho’s solutions largely involve speech recognition (ASR), entity linking (NED), structured document extraction, automated database linking, text classification, and more.

As an infrastructure engineer at Kensho you will be responsible for building systems and frameworks that will be used by teams across the organization. You will be working on a team with experienced engineers and have an opportunity to learn and grow. As an engineer on the infrastructure team you have the opportunity to work on the core platform that hosts all our assets to build monitoring & alerting that identify the health of such services.

At Kensho, we hire talented people and give them the freedom, support, and resources needed to accomplish our shared goals. We believe in flexibility-first and give our employees the opportunity to work from where they feel most productive and engaged (must be in the United States). We also value in-person collaboration, so there may be times when travel to one of our Kensho hubs (e.g., Cambridge, MA or NYC) will be required for team meetings or company events.

Kensho states that the anticipated base salary range for the position is 150k-225k. In addition, this role is eligible for an annual incentive bonus and equity plans. At Kensho, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.

What You'll Do:

• Design core, backend software components that powers the Kensho language models and other products.
• Build tools to empower the engineering teams.
• Code using primarily python, jsonnet, and other languages.
• Collaborate with other teams to gather requirements and support their workflows.
• Conduct architecture, design and code reviews.
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources.

• 5-year of relevant work experience in software development.
• Professional coding experience in Python, C++, Rust, or Go.
• Experience architecting and developing large scale distributed systems.
• Experience in concurrency, multithreading and synchronization.
• Familiarity with the Unix/Linux environments.

• Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, Kafka, PostgresQL
• Ubuntu linux or similar operating systems

• Your github account showing practical, entrepreneurial initiative.
• You have experience building distributed systems or have collaborated on a team developing internal tools.
• You have experience building systems processing large amounts of data. 
• You have experience productionizing large machine learning models (LLMs).
• You have experience in MLOPs.

At Kensho, we pride ourselves on providing top-of-market benefits, including:

-       Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance 

-       100% company paid premiums

-       Unlimited Paid Time Off

-       26 weeks of 100% paid Parental Leave (paternity and maternity)

-       401(k) plan with 6% employer matching

-       Generous company matching on donations to non-profit charities

-       Up to $20,000 tuition assistance toward degree programs, plus up to $4,000/year for ongoing professional education such as industry conferences

-       Plentiful snacks, drinks, and regularly catered lunches

-       Dog-friendly office (CAM office)

-       In-office gyms and showers (CAM, DC)

-       Bike sharing program memberships

-       Compassion leave and elder care leave

-       Mentoring and additional learning opportunities

-       Opportunity to expand professional network and participate in conferences and events 

About Kensho

Kensho is an Artificial Intelligence company that builds solutions to uncover insights in messy and unstructured data that enable critical workflows and empower businesses to make decisions with conviction.

Kensho was founded in 2013 and was acquired by S&P Global in 2018. Kensho continues to operate as a startup in order to maintain our distinct, independent brand and to promote our breakthrough, innovative culture. Our team of Kenshins enjoy a dynamic and collaborative work environment that runs autonomously from S&P Global, while leveraging the unparalleled breadth and depth of data and resources available as part of S&P Global.  As Kenshins, we pride ourselves on maintaining an innovative culture that depends on diversity and inclusion.

We are an equal opportunity employer that welcomes future Kenshins with all experiences and perspectives. Kensho is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with offices in New York City, and Washington D.C.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

Kensho is a 100-person Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) company, centered around providing cutting-edge solutions to meet the challenges of some of the largest and most successful businesses and institutions. We are owned by S&P Global and operate independently. Our toolkit illuminates insights by helping the world better understand, process, and leverage messy data. Specifically, Kensho’s solutions largely involve speech recognition (ASR), entity linking (NED), structured document extraction, automated database linking, text classification, and more. We are continuously expanding our portfolio and are looking for passionate researchers to help us create state-of-the-art models across a variety of domains!

Are you looking to solve hard problems and enjoy working with teammates with diverse perspectives? If so, we would love to help you excel here at Kensho. We are a collaborative group of experienced Research Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers, whose academic backgrounds include doctorate degrees in NLP, theoretical physics, statistics, etc. We take pride in our team-based, tightly-knit startup-like Kenshin community, which fosters continuous learning and a communicative environment.

Since early-2022, we have been building a world-class R&D lab comprised of ML/NLP Research Scientists. Our small team has demonstrated compelling results and is fueling innovation throughout Kensho and S&P Global at large. Specifically, we are continuously building a domain-specific Large Language Model (LLM) and are actively working on question-answering (QA), summarization, and document layout analysis.

We are looking to hire NLP Research Scientists with expertise in any of the following: question-answering, summarization, dialog system, reinforcement learning, and distributed systems. In particular, we are currently prioritizing question-answering and are addressing:

-Dialog-based QA that leverages APIs, program synthesis, and large knowledge-graphs/databases to help ensure accurate answers

-Long-form document QA, where the answer is expected to be contained within a user-specified collection of documents

-Math-based QA, where the answer requires automatically parsing tables for relevant information and then performing basic mathematical operations to yield the correct answer (e.g, FinQA, TAT-QA, ConvFinQA)

You will collaborate with our R&D team in conducting and publishing research in the top conferences.

At Kensho, we hire talented people and give them the freedom, support, and resources needed to accomplish our shared goals. We believe in flexibility-first and give our employees the opportunity to work from where they feel most productive and engaged (must be in the United States). We also value in-person collaboration, so there may be times when travel to one of our Kensho hubs (e.g., Cambridge, MA or NYC) will be required for team meetings or company events.

Kensho states that the anticipated base salary range for the position is 150k-225k. In addition, this role is eligible for an annual incentive bonus and equity plans. At Kensho, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.

What You'll Do:

• Collaborate with others to identify the most promising problems to pursue
• Develop novel, state-of-the-art NLP models that can scale to millions of documents
• Work closely with Research Scientists and ML Engineers
• Write clean, readable research code in PyTorch, TF, or JAX (not expected to write production-level code)
• Contribute to a stellar engineering culture that values excellent design, documentation, testing, and code
• Share your research results with your colleagues (presentations) and the world (published papers, patents, and blog posts)

• Outstanding people come from all different backgrounds, and we’re always interested in meeting talented people! Therefore, we do not require any particular credential or experience. If our work seems exciting to you, and you feel that you could excel in this position, we’d love to hear from you. That said, most of our successful candidates possess the following, which reflects both our technical needs and team culture:
• Hold a PhD in Computer Science or related field (or a Master’s with significant research experience)
• Have published in a top-tier ML/NLP conference (e.g., ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICML)
• Are proficient in writing code in PyTorch, Tensorflow, or JAX
• Have experience with the techniques required to work effectively with large, messy real-world data
• Prefer to collaborate iteratively on hard problems with your teammates rather than spending stretches of time working alone and presenting your results intermittently
• Have a love for learning new skills and domains
• Are excited to share knowledge freely, proactively, and effectively with others who are interested
• Are a generous teammate who takes work seriously without taking yourself too seriously

• ML: PyTorch, Weights & Biases, NetworkX
• Deployment: Airflow, Docker, EC2, Kubernetes, AWS
• Datastores: Postgres, Elasticsearch, S3

At Kensho, we pride ourselves on providing top-of-market benefits, including:

-       Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance 

-       100% company paid premiums

-       Unlimited Paid Time Off

-       26 weeks of 100% paid Parental Leave (paternity and maternity)

-       401(k) plan with 6% employer matching

-       Generous company matching on donations to non-profit charities

-       Up to $20,000 tuition assistance toward degree programs, plus up to $4,000/year for ongoing professional education such as industry conferences

-       Plentiful snacks, drinks, and regularly catered lunches

-       Dog-friendly office (CAM office)

-       In-office gyms and showers (CAM, DC)

-       Bike sharing program memberships

-       Compassion leave and elder care leave

-       Mentoring and additional learning opportunities

-       Opportunity to expand professional network and participate in conferences and events 

About Kensho

Kensho is an Artificial Intelligence company that builds solutions to uncover insights in messy and unstructured data that enable critical workflows and empower businesses to make decisions with conviction.

Kensho was founded in 2013 and was acquired by S&P Global in 2018. Kensho continues to operate as a startup in order to maintain our distinct, independent brand and to promote our breakthrough, innovative culture. Our team of Kenshins enjoy a dynamic and collaborative work environment that runs autonomously from S&P Global, while leveraging the unparalleled breadth and depth of data and resources available as part of S&P Global.  As Kenshins, we pride ourselves on maintaining an innovative culture that depends on diversity and inclusion.

We are an equal opportunity employer that welcomes future Kenshins with all experiences and perspectives. Kensho is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with offices in New York City, and Washington D.C.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

Barbaricum is a rapidly growing government contractor providing leading-edge support to federal customers, with a particular focus on Defense and National Security mission sets. We leverage more than 14 years of support to stakeholders across the federal government, with established and growing capabilities across Intelligence, Analytics, Engineering, Mission Support, and Communications disciplines. Founded in 2008, our mission is to transform the way our customers approach constantly changing and complex problem sets by bringing to bear the latest in technology and the highest caliber of talent.

Headquartered in Washington, DC's historic Dupont Circle neighborhood, Barbaricum also has a corporate presence in Tampa, FL and Dayton, OH, with team members across the United States and around the world. As a leader in our space, we partner with firms in the private sector, academic institutions, and industry associations with a goal of continually building our expertise and capabilities for the benefit of our employees and the customers we support. Through all of this, we have built a vibrant corporate culture diverse in expertise and perspectives with a focus on collaboration and innovation. Our teams are at the frontier of the Nation's most complex and rewarding challenges. Join us.

Barbaricum seeks an experienced Program Manager to provide support to the Department of Defense's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC). The Program Manager leverage direct program management experience and familiarity with relevant technology and capabilities to oversee teams of Data Scientists, Engineers and Architects working to accelerate, deliver, synchronize and scale AI solutions across the DoD enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Provide management, direction, administration, quality management, and leadership of program execution, acting as the overall lead, manager, and administrator for the effort.
• Direct efforts of cross-competency teams including Contractors at multiple locations and will serve as the primary interface and POC with Government program authorities and representatives on technical and project issues.
• Responsible for regularly briefing leadership on program status and milestones.
• Oversee Contractor personnel project operations by developing procedures, planning and directing execution of the contractual, technical, multi-disciplinary engineering, programming, maintenance, and administrative support effort, and monitoring and reporting progress.
• Manage acquisition and employment of project resources and control financial and administrative aspects of the project. 

• Active DoD Secret Clearance required (TS/SCI preferred)
• Bachelor's Degree (Master's preferred)
• 10+ years of Project Management experience managing complex projects in an IT engineering or big data environment
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in an IC, military, or other Government environment performing in a related subject area (e.g., project management, engineering, computer science), with at least five years of experience managing projects utilizing non-traditional program management methodologies (e.g., agile) in a big data environment
• PMP or related Program Management certification

Additional Information

For more information about Barbaricum, please visit our website at www.barbaricum.com.  We will contact candidates directly to schedule interviews.  No phone calls please.  

Kensho is a 100-person Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) company, centered around providing cutting-edge solutions to meet the challenges of some of the largest and most successful businesses and institutions. We are owned by S&P Global and operate independently. Our toolkit illuminates insights by helping the world better understand, process, and leverage messy data. Specifically, Kensho’s solutions largely involve speech recognition (ASR), entity linking (NED), structured document extraction, automated database linking, text classification, and more.

As a Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability (SRE) at Kensho, you will ensure that Kensho’s services, both internally-critical and customer-facing, have reliability and uptime based on users' expectations. You will work closely with our team of Infrastructure and Application Engineers to come up with scalable solutions. You will also be working with Technical Architects, Product and Engineering Managers and Application Developers to ensure stability and identify critical improvements.

Are you a senior SRE who is a thoughtful, collaborative, and dynamic technologist who loves building the infrastructure that helps others do their jobs more effectively and efficiently? If so, we would love to help you excel here at Kensho. We take pride in our team-based, tightly-knit startup Kenshin community that provides our employees with a collaborative, communicative environment that brings transparency to the biggest challenges in data.

At Kensho, we hire talented people and give them the freedom, support, and resources needed to accomplish our shared goals. We believe in flexibility-first and give our employees the opportunity to work from where they feel most productive and engaged (must be in the United States). We also value in-person collaboration, so there may be times when travel to one of our Kensho hubs (e.g., Cambridge, MA or NYC) will be required for team meetings or company events.

Kensho states that the anticipated base salary range for the position is 175k-225k. In addition, this role is eligible for an annual incentive bonus and equity plans. At Kensho, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.

What You'll Do:

• Run and stabilize Kensho’s production services that support critical financial applications and backend processes.
• Monitor, maintain and help scale services that are integrated into S&P’s platform. 
• Manage end-to-end availability and performance of critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence. 
• Add, tune and maintain alert configurations and documentation as needed.
• Design and build advanced automated operational and deployment frameworks alongside tooling and infrastructure to help engineering teams measure and increase their velocity.
• Cultivate full-team participation in high quality, thoughtful software.
• Participate in on-call/production support.
• Develop/adapt tools and applications to automate tasks.

• At least six years of experience, including experience developing/building a scalable application.
• Fluency in any two or more modern programming languages (Python, Java, Go, C++, etc.)
• Strong experience with coding and debugging and have developed a large application/service.
• The ability to demonstrate a practical understanding of algorithms, data structures, and design patterns.
• DevOps experience and can demonstrate skills in engineering and supporting production services in a modern, containerized cloud environment.
• Scalable testing, automation, continuous integration frameworks and best practices.

• Kubernetes, Envoy, Jenkins, Git, Docker, Kafka, Prometheus, Kibana, Elasticsearch, Grafana, Postgres, Terraform

• You have been a major technical contributor in a big project.
• Your open source projects show innovation and initiative.
• You have research, publications, and patents, if any.

At Kensho, we pride ourselves on providing top-of-market benefits, including:

-       Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance 

-       100% company paid premiums

-       Unlimited Paid Time Off

-       26 weeks of 100% paid Parental Leave (paternity and maternity)

-       401(k) plan with 6% employer matching

-       Generous company matching on donations to non-profit charities

-       Up to $20,000 tuition assistance toward degree programs, plus up to $4,000/year for ongoing professional education such as industry conferences

-       Plentiful snacks, drinks, and regularly catered lunches

-       Dog-friendly office (CAM office)

-       In-office gyms and showers (CAM, DC)

-       Bike sharing program memberships

-       Compassion leave and elder care leave

-       Mentoring and additional learning opportunities

-       Opportunity to expand professional network and participate in conferences and events 

About Kensho

Kensho is an Artificial Intelligence company that builds solutions to uncover insights in messy and unstructured data that enable critical workflows and empower businesses to make decisions with conviction.

Kensho was founded in 2013 and was acquired by S&P Global in 2018. Kensho continues to operate as a startup in order to maintain our distinct, independent brand and to promote our breakthrough, innovative culture. Our team of Kenshins enjoy a dynamic and collaborative work environment that runs autonomously from S&P Global, while leveraging the unparalleled breadth and depth of data and resources available as part of S&P Global.  As Kenshins, we pride ourselves on maintaining an innovative culture that depends on diversity and inclusion.

We are an equal opportunity employer that welcomes future Kenshins with all experiences and perspectives. Kensho is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with offices in New York City, and Washington D.C.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

About Morning Consult:

Morning Consult is a global decision intelligence company changing how modern leaders make smarter, faster, better decisions. The company pairs its proprietary high-frequency data with applied artificial intelligence to better inform decisions on what people think and how they will act.

Ideally this position would be based in Washington, DC, however we are open to our other office locations or remote within the US.

The Role:

Morning Consult is seeking a highly motivated and entrepreneurial Economic Intelligence Account Executive to drive sales of Morning Consult Economic Intelligence (MCEI), a subscription to syndicated global economic data and analysis. In this role, you will take ownership of the sales pipeline and process, from prospecting new leads, scheduling sales introductions, leading pitch meetings and running innovative demos of our world-class Economic Intelligence product. This role will work closely with Morning Consult’s Chief Economist to prioritize sales opportunities, schedule and execute in-person sales presentations and drive top-of-funnel interest in the product.

This is a new role at Morning Consult, designed to sell an existing product into a new addressable market — particularly strategy, financial planning & analysis, finance, demand forecasting and buy-and-sell-side research units within corporate and financial services sectors. This is an exciting opportunity to expand on Morning Consult’s commercial success in the near term and transform Morning Consult’s business in the long term.

The Product:

MCEI provides clients with unparalleled insight into emerging trends in the global economy by integrating Morning Consult’s proprietary, high-frequency economic data with recurring and topical analysis. MCEI data reflects over 13,000 daily survey responses in more than 40 countries, covering consumer confidence, employment, household finances, consumer spending, supply chains and inflation, small business conditions and inflation expectations. Drawing on this proprietary data, premium MCEI reports offer clients recurring economic analysis delivered through the Morning Consult Intelligence platform.

On an as-needed basis, the Economic Intelligence Account Executive also has the opportunity to sell Morning Consult Research Intelligence, the company’s market-leading, full-service custom research product. The combination of MCEI and MCRI provides clients with the best of both worlds: always on syndicated data and analysis paired with bespoke deep dives into particularly relevant topics.

The Economic Research Team at Morning Consult:

Morning Consult’s Economic Research team is responsible for executing the full life cycle of the MCEI product: survey design, data development, data validation, analysis, sales and servicing. The team includes client-focused business economists, data scientists and sales and servicing experts. The team is part of Morning Consult’s Content team and works closely with a broad range of internal stakeholders, including Morning Consult’s Business Development team.

What You’ll Be Working On:

• Selling MCEI, including identifying prospects, building and executing sales outreach strategies, building and maintaining a robust sales pipeline and completing sales contracting in consultation with Morning Consult’s Legal team
• Coordinating with the Morning Consult Business Development team to identify MCEI sales opportunities with current clients and appropriately exchange referrals
• Retaining, renewing and expanding MCEI sales by working with Morning Consult’s Economic Research and Customer Success Management teams
• Assessing and improving the product pitch by summarizing and presenting to the Chief Economist key findings and lessons learned from both positive and negative sales interactions

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in sales at an economic or financial data and analysis company, preferably with experience selling to both corporate and financial services clients. Candidates with experience selling into strategy, financial planning & analysis, finance, demand forecasting and buy-and-sell-side research are preferred
• Knowledge of and interest in the business and financial implications of global economic and economic policy developments
• Pipeline development and management — experience with cold and warm sales outreach, meeting scheduling, meeting follow-ups, contract negotiations and closings. Experience with Mail Merge and Salesforce is preferred
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to use data to inform decision-making
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to articulate complex ideas and negotiate effectively with clients and partners
• Process-oriented with strong attention to detail
• Listening to clients and prospects to understand their business operations and business needs
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt quickly to changing priorities
• Passion for delivering exceptional customer experiences, and a willingness to go above and beyond to exceed client expectations
• Willing to take feedback, learn and grow; an ethos of continuous self-improvement

Note: We view the above section as a guide, not a checklist. Research shows that underrepresented/marginalized groups are less likely to apply for a job if they feel that they don’t meet 100% of the qualifications. We welcome diverse and non-traditional backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t satisfy every single bullet on this list! It’s expected that you’ll learn and grow throughout your time at Morning Consult, so if you’re open to building new skills, we’d love to hear from you.

The expected base salary range for this position is $107,500 - $174,900, with a midpoint of $141,200.

In most cases, we target the midpoint of our salary ranges for new hire compensation. This placement is reflective of full proficiency in a role. This role is eligible for additional variable compensation and an equity grant, which will be discussed in your initial recruiter conversation. Please see an overview of Morning Consult’s benefits on our Career Page.

We are committed to a work environment that is inclusive to all and free of discrimination. It is our policy to be an equal opportunity employer without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, veteran status, citizenship status or any other factors prohibited by law. Morning Consult will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals.

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Kensho is a 100-person Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) company, centered around providing cutting-edge solutions to meet the challenges of some of the largest and most successful businesses and institutions. We are owned by S&P Global and operate independently. Our toolkit illuminates insights by helping the world better understand, process, and leverage messy data. Specifically, Kensho’s solutions largely involve speech recognition (ASR), entity linking (NED), structured document extraction, automated database linking, text classification, and more. 

Kensho’s Applications group works on multiple products and develops the software that delivers Kensho’s AI capabilities to our customers.  Our teams are small, product-focused, and intent on shipping high-quality code that best leverages our efforts.  We’re collegial, humble, and inquisitive, and we delight in learning from teammates with backgrounds, skills, and interests different from our own.

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Enterprise Integrations team, you will develop the software behind our reliable, secure, and performant APIs while integrating with existing SaaS applications.  There are a few product pipelines within the Enterprise Integrations team, one of which is an LLM-backed project that you will be a part of.  You will collaborate with colleagues from Machine Learning, Product, and Infrastructure, as well as with other engineers within the company.  You have a demonstrated capacity for depth, but are comfortable working with a broad range of technologies.  You are a thoughtful, deliberate technologist and share your knowledge generously. 

At Kensho, we hire talented people and give them the freedom, support, and resources needed to accomplish our shared goals. We believe in flexibility-first and give our employees the opportunity to work from where they feel most productive and engaged (must be in the United States). We also value in-person collaboration, so there may be times when travel to one of our Kensho hubs (e.g., Cambridge, MA or NYC) will be required for team meetings or company events.

Kensho states that the anticipated base salary range for the position is 150k-225k. In addition, this role is eligible for an annual incentive bonus and equity plans. At Kensho, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, develop, test, document, deploy, maintain, and improve software.
• Collaborate with machine learning engineers to execute on LLM-backed applications.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Work with key stakeholders to develop system architectures, API specifications, implementation requirements, and complexity estimates.
• Test assumptions through instrumentation and prototyping.
• Promote ongoing technical development through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and mentorship.

• At least five years of direct experience developing SaaS applications within a team.
• Thoughtful and efficient communication skills (both verbal and written).
• Experience developing SaaS application backends and APIs using a variety of tools.
• Experience collaborating with ML engineers (MLEs) to develop software and tooling.
• Experience turning abstract business requirements into concrete technical plans.
• Experience working across many stages of the software development lifecycle.
• Sound reasoning about the behavior and performance of loosely-coupled systems.
• Proficiency with algorithms (including time and space complexity analysis), data structures, software architecture, and system design.
• At least one domain of demonstrable technical depth.

• Django, Python 3, PostgreSQL
• Git, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes
• RabbitMQ, Kafka, Celery
• Open Source Models (SOTA and task-specific)

• Experience working with geographically distributed teams.
• Experience collaborating on natural language processing (NLP) tools.
• Experience working with large language models (LLMs).

At Kensho, we pride ourselves on providing top-of-market benefits, including:

-       Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance 

-       100% company paid premiums

-       Unlimited Paid Time Off

-       26 weeks of 100% paid Parental Leave (paternity and maternity)

-       401(k) plan with 6% employer matching

-       Generous company matching on donations to non-profit charities

-       Up to $20,000 tuition assistance toward degree programs, plus up to $4,000/year for ongoing professional education such as industry conferences

-       Plentiful snacks, drinks, and regularly catered lunches

-       Dog-friendly office (CAM office)

-       In-office gyms and showers (CAM, DC)

-       Bike sharing program memberships

-       Compassion leave and elder care leave

-       Mentoring and additional learning opportunities

-       Opportunity to expand professional network and participate in conferences and events 

About Kensho

Kensho is an Artificial Intelligence company that builds solutions to uncover insights in messy and unstructured data that enable critical workflows and empower businesses to make decisions with conviction.

Kensho was founded in 2013 and was acquired by S&P Global in 2018. Kensho continues to operate as a startup in order to maintain our distinct, independent brand and to promote our breakthrough, innovative culture. Our team of Kenshins enjoy a dynamic and collaborative work environment that runs autonomously from S&P Global, while leveraging the unparalleled breadth and depth of data and resources available as part of S&P Global.  As Kenshins, we pride ourselves on maintaining an innovative culture that depends on diversity and inclusion.

We are an equal opportunity employer that welcomes future Kenshins with all experiences and perspectives. Kensho is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with offices in New York City, and Washington D.C.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

About Morning Consult:

Morning Consult is a global decision intelligence company changing how modern leaders make smarter, faster, better decisions. The company pairs its proprietary high-frequency data with applied artificial intelligence to better inform decisions on what people think and how they will act.

Ideally this position would be based in Washington, DC, however we are open to our other office locations or remote within the US.

The Role:

Morning Consult is looking to hire an entrepreneurial strategic communications and market research professional to join our Research Solutions team. Those in this role must understand survey research, advocacy and messaging strategy and have experience bringing people together internally to make projects come to life.

In this role, you will be eager to develop creative and impactful projects that help our clients make the most of our data-focused technology products. You will work closely with leadership to both expand current client offerings and ensure all client needs are exceeded.

The Research Solutions Team at Morning Consult:

The Research Solutions Team at Morning Consult is a crucial part of building an industry-leading, customer-obsessed Commercial Organization to drive sustainable growth across our entire portfolio of business.  Our aim is to deliver high-impact, quality intelligence at scale to decision makers anytime, anywhere. Our team consists of researchers who come with experience in market research, insights, political polling, strategic consulting, and more.

What You’ll Be Working On:

• Oversee research projects for small accounts (≤$500K) independently, with minimal oversight
• Work on diverse research projects, and select methodology and approach to obtain important answers to a client research question, with manager oversight
• Communicate independently with clients to gather survey inputs, communicate progress, and explain data insights and methodology
• Navigate Morning Consult’s data ecosystem and delivers consultative value to clients to deepen trust, with manager support
• Generate deliverables that address key client questions, with minimal oversight
• Focus and prioritize work based on business-critical priorities, with occasional guidance from their manager
• Leverage Salesforce to track client revenue against the contract, with oversight from their manager
• Join sales calls to interpret research needs, explain simple methodology, and support the proposal process by providing accurate pricing inputs and methodology suggestions
• Adopt and share best practices for the research process and project management across teams to increase knowledge and skill

• Proven track record of success, and experience in the research industry
• Experience working closely with clients, eager to exceed client expectations to deepen trust
• Strong prioritization skills, managing multiple projects and priorities simultaneously
• An organized planner who clarifies priorities and progress with collaborators to maintain visibility
• Strategic thinker who can recognize research project risks and proactively get ahead of issues
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to understand customer expectations and exceeds them to secure trust
• Uncompromising attention to detail with high technical standards and dedication to learning best research practices
• Proactively raises barriers to success, and contributes creative ideas to increase impact
• A constantly curious individual who seeks stretch assignments, taking advantage of on-the-job learning opportunities

Note: We view the above section as a guide, not a checklist. Research shows that underrepresented/marginalized groups are less likely to apply for a job if they feel that they don’t meet 100% of the qualifications. We welcome diverse and non-traditional backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t satisfy every single bullet on this list! It’s expected that you’ll learn and grow throughout your time at Morning Consult, so if you’re open to building new skills, we’d love to hear from you.

The expected salary range for this position is $64,300 - $100,000, with a midpoint of $82,100.

In most cases, we target the midpoint of our salary ranges for new hire compensation. This placement is reflective of full proficiency in a role. This role is eligible for additional variable compensation and an equity grant, which will be discussed in your initial recruiter conversation. Please see an overview of Morning Consult’s benefits on our Career Page.

We are committed to a work environment that is inclusive to all and free of discrimination. It is our policy to be an equal opportunity employer without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, veteran status, citizenship status or any other factors prohibited by law. Morning Consult will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals.

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