As a Machine Learning Research Engineer in Morningstar | Sustainalytics

You are responsible for developing new AI technologies used to assess the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance of public and private companies globally.

The technologies you will develop range from information extraction, NLG systems to any number of subfields that you see fit in order to help expand the capabilities of our analysts.

Your work will ultimately help investors define their strategy leveraging ESG insights and will push companies to improve how they treat the environment, their social spheres (workforce, stakeholders, consumers, nearby communities), and their governance. As more and more companies move towards this direction we aim to have a far-reaching impact by promoting a healthy ESG mentality through novel AI technologies.

You will be working together with a team of talented and result oriented research engineers. This team’s key focus is to expand our competencies and learn how to leverage new AI technologies through a constant stream of diverse experiments which will allow you to:

Lead the development and implementation of advanced machine learning models.

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the ML engineering team.

Define best practices and standards.

Contribute to long-term technical vision and strategy.

Lead development of PoCs to determine the feasibility of a new technology.

Train, fine-tune or adapt open-source models to fit our data.

Propose new ML architectures and approaches.

Collaborate with ML Ops and Software Engineering teams to help them implement a scalable production version of your PoC.

Qualifications

5+ years of relevant experience researching and developing Machine Learning technologies

Experience leading ML research & development projects

Experience training / fine-tuning open source models (e.g. Transformers, LLMs)

Experience handling and exploring various types of data (from tabular, natural text to images)

Experience organising and documenting experiment

Nice to have

Experience with NLP, NLG and / or NLU technologies (e.g. Transformers, BERT, GPT)

Experience with text processing (e.g. NER, Entity disambiguation)

Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow or other similar frameworks

Basic experience with CV technologies (e.g. ImageNet, SSDs, YOLO)

Basic Experience with other ML techniques like DecisionTrees, XGBoost, Gradient Boosting

Any AI related interests / experience is welcomed (e.g. Reinforcement Learning, Meta Learning, Symbolic AI)

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Morningstar’s hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. We’ve found that we’re at our best when we’re purposely together on a regular basis, at least three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you’ll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.