Senior Data Scientist, CV, Handwriting Recognition, AIML, GenAI

About Ancestry:
When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person’s story is important. Ancestry®, the global leader in family history, empowers journeys of personal discovery to enrich lives. With our unparalleled collection of more than 40 billion records, over 3 million subscribers and over 23 million people in our growing DNA network, customers can discover their family story and gain a new level of understanding about their lives. Over the past 40 years, we’ve built trusted relationships with millions of people who have chosen us as the platform for discovering, preserving and sharing the most important information about themselves and their families.

We are committed to our location flexible work approach, allowing you to choose to work in the nearest office, from your home, or a hybrid of both (subject to location restrictions and roles that are required to be in the office- see the full list of eligible US locations HERE). We will continue to hire and promote beyond the boundaries of our office locations, to enable broadened possibilities for employee diversity.

Together, we work every day to foster a work environment that's inclusive as well as diverse, and where our people can be themselves. Every idea and perspective is valued so that our products and services reflect the global and diverse clients we serve. 

Ancestry encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants. Passionate about dedicating your work to enriching people’s lives? Join the curious.

Ancestry seeks an exceptional, passionate, and highly motivated Data Scientist to join our (Handwriting Recognition) HWR team. The HWR team is responsible for processing and extracting records from historical records including text, data, audio and image sources to help customers discover and connect with their family history. We have heavily invested in this area and as a scientist on the HWR team, you will help us with building state of the art vision and NLP pipelines that can be used for processing billions of content images. 

What you will do...

• As a Deep Learning Scientist on the HWR team, you will build, train and fine-tune models that can help with extracting records from images with handwritings 

• Engage in fast prototyping, and agile software development and deliver measurement-driven model improvements;

• You’ll design and run and end to end complex pipelines of models and work with stakeholders to satisfy requirements

• You will work closely with engineering teams to train, optimize, and deploy models

• Collaborate with Data Science Engineers to deploy datasets, truth sets, models, pipelines, training and inference code to the cloud

• Effectively communicate and present deliverables and solutions to teams, stakeholders, and executives

• Applied Research and implementation of new AI techniques (layout/object detection, transcription, generative AI, NLP, LLM, CV solutions for NER)

Who you are...

• Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in Computer Science, Data Science or a quantitative field 

• Minimum 3-4 years of hands-on technical experience developing and deploying AIML models in production settings

• Specialization in computer vision, deep learning and machine learning 

• Strong proficiency in Python, LLMs, CV, NLP and other libraries 

• Familiarity with deep learning frameworks like Pytorch, Hugging Face, OpenAI, TensorFlow, SpaCy, SciPy stack, etc.

• Experience with applied research and implementing published models for practical to real-world applications

• Nice to have experience with Sagemaker and other AWS services 

• Strong software development experience is required for succeeding at this role

• Self-starter, high level of motivation and ability to work well independently as well as motivate and energize teams.

Additional Information:

Ancestry is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. In addition, Ancestry will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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