Job Description

Important information before applying:

Location: This position is based on-site in Moscow, Idaho, and requires five days per week in the office. We will consider only candidates who currently live locally or are willing to relocate.

Work Authorization: To respect your time, we cannot provide employment visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Before applying, please confirm that you are authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.

Lightcast is seeking an Associate NLP / Machine Learning Scientist to join our AI/ML Laband help develop NLP models for large-scale labor market data.You will work with senior scientists and engineers to build and improve models that transformunstructured data such as job postings and professional profiles into structured labor marketintelligence. Core problem areas include classification, information extraction, entityrecognition, normalization, semantic matching, and multilingual NLP.

Major Responsibilities

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, machine learning, NLP, data science, or a related field.
• Strong foundation in machine learning, natural language processing, and deep learning.
• Experience using Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch, Hugging Face, or scikit-learn.
• Familiarity with transformers, embeddings, classification, information extraction, or entity normalization.
• Experience training and evaluating machine learning models, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to collaborate and learn quickly in research and production environments.
• Internship, academic, or professional experience building NLP or machine learning models.
• Familiarity with large language models, fine-tuning, LoRA, PEFT, or prompt engineering.
• Exposure to multilingual NLP, semantic search, retrieval, or entity linking.
• Familiarity with model optimization techniques such as quantization or distillation.
• Experience with AWS, SageMaker, Docker, MLflow, or similar machine learning tools.

Lightcast is a global leader in labor market insights with our headquarters located in Moscow, ID (US) and other offices in the United Kingdom, Europe, and India. We work with partners across six continents to help drive economic prosperity and mobility by providing the insights needed to build and develop our people, our institutions and companies, and our communities.

Lightcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and does not discriminate on the basis of federally protected statuses. Lightcast has always been, and always will be, committed to diversity of thought and unique perspectives. We seek dynamic professionals from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.