Proto Ghana Recruitment 2020

Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified candidates for Proto Ghana Recruitment 2020.

Proto Tools is an American industrial hand tool company. Founded as Plomb, it is presently a division of Stanley Black & Decker. The company is credited with creating the first combination wrench in 1933.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: NLP Engineer

Here Are Our Cultural Principles;

As a remote-first company, our top priority is to implement new ways of enabling your maximum productivity, happiness, and contributions to the global team. To accomplish this, we receive incredible support from the Creative Destruction Lab, Next Canada, the National Research Council of Canada, and Enterprise Malta. The company founders are Canadian-Italian and Taiwanese, both with military backgrounds. We have set a cultural tone of high-accountability and high-inclusiveness that is respectful of all the cultures represented in the company.

Gender Equality: We strive to maintain an even gender balance with mission-critical leadership opportunities for women.

Multicultural: We align hiring to local market demands with a particular focus on polyglots and SaaS professionals.

Age Neutral: We combine the best attributes of every generation with opportunities matched to each member’s technical and lived experience.

Software: Daily communication and accountability is performed via various collaboration softwares, such as Slack, Monday, Github, JIRA, etc.

About You

Smarty Pants: Masters Degree or PhD in a related field.

Strategic Thinker: Contribute to the company’s technical product development & roadmap.

Multilingual: Native or fluent speaker of 1-2 languages.

Cool Cookie: This is a startup. We plan ahead but we must also be nimble and fast to adapt. If we asked your friends, they would say you’re the calmest person they know in tough situations.

NICE TO HAVES (BUT NOT DEALBREAKERS)

Familiarity with machine learning tools like Scikit-learn, PyTorch and Tensorflow
Experience with Python 3
Knowledge of RESTful API, gRPC, airflow, message queue
Experience with the parser, semantic role labelling, or sentiment analysis, named entity recognition
Fluent in Twi

DO NOT APPLY IF (ABSOLUTE DEALBREAKERS)

You’re in school, running a startup, etc.
You cannot provide up to three references
You have a preference for unambiguous tasks
Your dream job is at a big, name-brand company
You’ll only be available 9-5 in your local timezone
You prefer problem-solving to be done by management
You consider an office with a ping-pong table to be a “perk”
You have difficulties working with people from certain ethnicity, religions or genders
You expect your company and colleagues to create the processes required for your success
You have ever quit a job within one month of employment for a non-emergency reason or failed to provide a notice period

NOTE: Proto’s screening process will not always identify these factors, so please only submit your candidacy if these do not apply.

Compensation & Benefits