Senior Research Scientist (Knowledge Graphs)

See yourself at DataminrAs a Research Scientist you’ll be working on some of the most challenging AI problems in real-time event detection and directly contributing to products while advancing the state of the art. You'll architect and implement entities models, information extraction, knowledge graph construction, maintenance and reasoning for our real-time alerting platform. This critical role involves developing innovative solutions that enable seamless external and internal data consumption and deliver high-impact insights. This role can be remote anywhere in the US or based out of our New York City office.AI Innovation at Dataminr Working at Dataminr you’ll have the opportunity to tackle the most exciting trends in AI on a daily basis to power a revolutionary product that uncovers critical events around the world as they unfold.Regenerative AI: our AI technology, ReGenAI, is a new form of generative AI that automatically regenerates real-time Live Event Briefs as events unfold. Learn more here.Agentic AI: we recently launched our Agentic AI capability, what we’re calling our Intel Agents, that autonomously generates critical context for our clients on real-time events, threats, and risks allowing them to see the clearest, most accurate view of what’s happening on the ground. Learn more hereMultimodal AI:our platform detects events from many different types of data (images, video, sensor data, audio, and text in over 150 languages). Learn more here. The opportunity Perform research to advance the state of the art and solve specific problems at scale in one or more of the following areas: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Named Entity Recognition (NER), Entity Linking (EL), Entity Alignment (EA), information extraction (IE), knowledge graphs (KG), graph embeddings, link prediction.Work closely with a diverse, interdisciplinary team to deliver value to customers (existing and new products). Contribute to the research community via publications in top tier venues, participation in program committees, etc.Excel in placing a human-centered focus on the work (context, end-user impact, etc), finding solutions that work in practice and have significant impact.Productionize and ship research into Dataminr’s products, and thus to its users worldwide.Senior candidates are expected to lead technical areas and/or people.What you bring At Dataminr, we value you for who you are. We encourage you to apply for this role, even if you don’t meet every qualification. Our candidates are reviewed on the basis of their skill and potential to succeed. Ph.D. in Computer Science or related fieldExperience in one or more of the following topics: topic detection & tracking, text classification, knowledge extraction/representation/management, machine learning and deep learning, etc. Outstanding publication record (IEEE, AAAI, NeurIPS, CVPR, ACL, TACL, EMNLP, WWW, etc.).Demonstrated ability to work independently, set up experiments and demonstrate progress through principled use of metrics. Proficiency in Python and experience with relevant AI/ML libraries and frameworks such as PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, and LangGraph. Experience with LLM serving technologies such as vLLM is a plus.About DataminrAt Dataminr, we are a mission driven team of talented builders, creators and visionaries who have real-world impact on how organizations are able to respond to events. Dataminr’s groundbreaking, AI-powered, intelligence platform provides organizations with the earliest signals of emerging risks, events, and threats before they unfold. Trusted by two-thirds of the Fortune 50 and half of the Fortune 100, Dataminr’s platform analyzes billions of public data inputs spanning text, image, video, audio and sensor data across 150+ languages, empowering our clients to stay one step ahead in an increasingly complex world where every second counts. Founded in 2009, we have pioneered the world’s first real-time event detection platform, long before the recent Gen AI ‘boom.’ Dataminr operates all around the world united by our passion to use AI for the greater good, be agents of positive change and put our technology into the hands of clients charged with the responsibility to keep organizations running and keep people safe.As our employees focus on developing our revolutionary technology, we focus on our employees. Dataminr is proud to offer a variety of flexible work arrangements, offices all over the world to foster collaboration, generous PTO and sick leave, and more, as part of our competitive benefits package aimed at keeping all our employees happy and healthy. Explore all our benefits here. We believe our differences give us strength. Our employees are empowered to be their best, authentic selves through various opportunities, such as our robust employee resource group (ERG) network, manager development programming, professional development funds, and more.We serve a global community made up of many cultures and strive to reflect the w