Software Engineer (NLP / CV)

Linkfluence first started as a passion project between four students with an ambitious goal: to understand and “map” the social web. Today, Linkfluence is a leading AI-enabled consumer insights company that turns social data into valuable insights for global brands. Our hybrid combination of AI and human expertise is what sets us apart from other social listening players in the industry.

We serve over 500 clients worldwide across all industries, from global brands like LVMH, Nike, and Ralph Lauren, to Danone, Pernod Ricard, and Porsche.

In 2021, Linkfluence was acquired by Meltwater, a leading global provider of media intelligence and social analytics. This important achievement and milestone further highlights Linkfluence’s core mission and vision. This also represents a huge opportunity for growth for the company and for Linkfluencers.

Our team is young, diverse, ambitious, and growing rapidly. We have 180 people of over 20 different nationalities spread across our offices in Paris, London, San Francisco, New York, Düsseldorf, Shanghai, and Singapore. We are a multicultural organization and are committed to a gender-balanced workforce.

If you’re passionate about staying on top of online trends, if your ambition is to help companies serve their customers, if you’re curious about what’s happening in the world and love to listen to others, and if you’re thrilled to be a part of shaping the future of social media intelligence, then we want to hear from you!

Linkfluence is looking for a Software Engineer to join its Artificial Intelligence team and help it scale our Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV) pipelines to continuously develop and integrate new innovative features into existing and future products. Our pipelines are running in real-time enriching thousands of documents per second and analyzing millions of images per day.

We are looking for someone with a creative, proactive, collaborative, and innovation focused mindset. You will work alongside a team of passionate machine learning engineers driven by enthusiasm for adopting new technologies and excitement about making the difference for customers using applied AI. You will take complete ownership of the AI pipelines you develop : from their conception to their implementation in our production ecosystem.

Our team is organized over 3 objectives : innovation, research and production.

• Innovation : We leverage our AI expertise to constantly imagine new business oriented features to enhance our products.
• Research : We need to stay up-to-date to the latest frameworks, techniques that speed up model’s inference time (ONNX, TensorRT, Nvidia Triton, …).
• Production : We make a point of designing and developing our algorithms in a software engineering fashion. Scalability is our goal. The models that we develop are running over millions of documents (text or image) per day.

• 1 to 3 years of strong Software Engineering experience over Machine Learning applications.
• Experience in building and deploying scalable ML pipelines in a production environment,
• High proficiency in an OOP setting like Scala, Java, C++, etc…
• Deep knowledge of Python.
• Strong knowledge in a Deep Learning framework such as TensorFlow or PyTorch
• Classic NLP, CV and ML theoretical knowledge.

Along with interesting extra skills :

• Experience with Big Data technologies such as Spark, Kafka or HBase is a big plus.
• Experience using Information Retrieval systems (and Elasticsearch) is a plus.
• Experience with Terraform, AWS and Kubernetes is a plus.
• Experience with optimizing models’ architecture is a plus.

• First contact will be with the HR team.
• Meet some of the AI team members.
• Technical interview led by the AI team members related to their day-to-day work.
• Discussion with the CTO.

WHY JOINING US ?

• You will work with a team of passionate people who are always willing to help and learn from others.
• You will have the opportunity to work with various technologies, a recent tech stack and learn a lot !
• Enriching 10K documents per second is not trivial :) . If you like tackling such challenges, this job is meant for you.
• As a growing company, we combine a startup mindset with the resources necessary to commit to exciting new initiatives. At Linkfluence, everyone has an opportunity to make a difference.
• Our Paris office is situated in the heart of Paris, 11th arrondissement (close to Republique), which means we are well-connected.

If you have read this far, you should probably apply ! We are already looking forward to knowing more about you.

We encourage the diversity of applicants across gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, social background, religion or belief and disability.