Senior Data Scientist, Resume, Handwriting Recognition, Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning, GenAI

About Ancestry: When you join Ancestry, you become part of a company that values each individual's story. As the world leader in family history, Ancestry empowers personal discovery journeys that enrich lives. With our unmatched collection of over 40 billion records, more than 3 million subscribers, and over 23 million individuals in our expanding DNA network, customers can unearth their family's narrative and achieve a newfound understanding of their own lives. Over the past four decades, we have formed trusted relationships with millions of people who have selected us as the platform for discovering, preserving, and sharing their family's most significant information. We're dedicated to our flexible work location policy, offering the option to work from the office nearest you, from your own home, or a mix of the two (subject to regional restrictions and roles that require office presence - see the full list of eligible US locations HERE). We continue to recruit and promote without the confines of our office locations, broadening opportunities for employee diversity. Working together, we strive towards an inclusive and diverse work atmosphere where our employees can be themselves. All ideas and perspectives are recognized, ensuring our products and services reflect the diverse global clientele we serve. Ancestry encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, veterans, and any other qualified applicants. Do you have a passion for enriching people's lives through your work? Become one of the curious. Ancestry is looking for an exceptional, driven, and highly motivated Data Scientist to join our Handwriting Recognition (HWR) team. This team processes and extracts data from historical records, including text, audio, and image sources, to assist customers in discovering their family history. We've invested heavily in this area and as a scientist on the HWR team, you'll contribute to building state-of-the-art vision and NLP pipelines that process billions of document images. What you will do... - As a Deep Learning Scientist on the HWR team, you will create, train, and fine-tune models that assist in the extraction of records from handwritten images. - Participate in rapid prototyping and agile software development, delivering continuously improved measurement-driven models. - Design, run, and oversee complex model pipelines, working with stakeholders to meet requirements. - Collaborate closely with engineering teams to train, optimize, and deploy models. - Work with Data Science Engineers to move datasets, truth sets, models, pipelines, training, and inference code to the cloud. - Communicate and present deliverables and solutions effectively to teams, stakeholders, and executives. - Implement new AI techniques through applied research (layout/object detection, transcription, generative AI, NLP, LLM, CV solutions for NER). Who you are... - Holder of an advanced degree (MS/PhD) in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related quantitative field. - At least 3-4 years of hands-on technical experience in developing and implementing AIML models in production environments. - Specialized in computer vision, deep learning, and machine learning. - Highly proficient in Python, LLMs, CV, NLP, and other libraries. - Familiar with deep learning frameworks like Pytorch, Hugging Face, OpenAI, TensorFlow, SpaCy, SciPy stack, etc. - Experienced with applied research and applying published models to real-world applications. - Previous experience with Sagemaker and other AWS services is a plus. - Strong software development skills are crucial for success in this role. - Self-starter, highly motivated and able to motivate and energize teams. Additional Information: Ancestry is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions without regard for race, color, religion, 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 legally protected characteristic. Ancestry also offers reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. All job offers are contingent on a background check that complies with applicable laws. For candidates in San Francisco, pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Ancestry will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.  Ancestry is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. Any resumes submitted by search firms to any Ancestry employee via email, the Internet, or any other medium without a signed search agreement for this position will be deemed the sole property of Ancestry. No fee will be paid in the event that the candidate is hired by Ancestry as a result of the referral or through other means.