About the job
About The Economist Group
The Economist Group (TEG) supports progress and innovation through independent, rigorous analysis. With a global reach spanning over 170 countries, TEG delivers evidence-based insights to individuals and organizations, helping them navigate complex challenges. The group includes four businesses: The Economist, Economist Impact, Economist Intelligence, and Economist Education.
Technology at The Economist Group
The technology team, a group of 200 professionals, plays a key role in TEG’s digital strategy. This team builds and maintains digital products that deliver data, intelligence, and analysis to a worldwide audience. Projects range from enhancing economist.com to developing new offerings for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Collaboration with other departments ensures the adoption of advanced technologies and methods to meet subscriber needs and strengthen engagement.
Role Overview: Senior Natural Language Processing Engineer
The Economist Group is hiring a Senior NLP Engineer for its Bengaluru office. This role focuses on designing, developing, and maintaining the architecture behind economist.com and EIU platforms, with a particular emphasis on systems that improve customer-facing products.
The initial focus will be on building the data infrastructure needed for predictive analytics, machine learning algorithms, and generative AI projects. The Senior NLP Engineer will work closely with the Head of AI and Data Engineering to help shape and execute the organization’s vision. Collaboration with the corporate data team, which handles reporting, analytics, and insights, is also central to the role.

