Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing Engineer in Tech Startup

Whisk.com

Whisk.com is a fast growing discovery platform that helps people decide what to eat. Whisk tracks people’s food preferences for food personalisation, allows users to save recipes into a personal cookbook and create shopping lists that connect into the world’s largest online grocery stores. Our application is seen by over 40m people every month and we work with the largest food manufacturers, retailers and publishers in the US, UK and Australia.

Whisk accolades include a ranking in UK’s Top 50 Startups 2015 and winning multiple industry awards. Dan Cobley, MD Google UK/Ireland said “Whisk is making the moment to buy really matter”.

The role

NLP

We are planning to improve our Natural Language Processing for recipe understanding and to experiment with different Machine Learning techniques to make our process more scalable ( potentially with CRF or LSTM Neural Nets).

Recommendations and Personalisation

We are looking to improve our recommendation and personalisation engines to provide users a set of recipes they love. We’re interested in understanding taste and health preferences to do this, along with many other types of data.

Your qualification

- proven experience in Machine Learning and Natural Language

- programming experience with Python

- Proficiency in English

- Passion and interest in modern technologies and techniques

Beneficial

- familiarity with scikit-learn, TensorFlow

- programming experience with Scala

You + Whisk

We’re looking for people who get as excited about tech and our products as we do! You'll be expected to work closely with the everyone in the business, including the founders. To make a decision on whether you want to join our team have a read of:

1. Our product on whisk.com

2. Our company values