Engineer III Consultant-AI Science Full-time

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As Engineer Consultant – AI Science you will design, develop and optimize Artificial Intelligence, SLM/LLM solutions to diverse real-world problems and implement cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence models and systems. This role includes a combination of implementing new algorithms, SLM/LLMs, performance/accuracy tuning and analysis, defining APIs, and analyzing functionality coverage to build larger, coherent toolsets and libraries. The ability to work in a multifaceted, product-centric environment with excellent interpersonal skills are required.

• Data Mining or extracting usable data from valuable data sources using SQL, Model Development, and implementing innovative NLP/SLM/LLM based AI solutions using Python, Pyspark, distributed computing framework and cloud platform.
• Contributing to developing robust and scalable distributed computing systems for large-scale data processing.
• Contributing in developing Core NLP/SLM/LLM reusable pipelines and infrastructure.
• Implementing and analyzing the performance of advanced algorithms, including those from NLP, deep learning and generative AI.
• Analyzing and modeling both structured and unstructured data from a number of distributed client and publicly available sources.
• Contributing to the research and development of novel generative models, exploring new algorithms and methodologies.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define project requirements and deliver high-quality solutions.

What we are looking for: –

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant work experience.
• Three or more years of experience in cognitive analytics and AI modeling.
• Experience working in collaborative environment with global teams to drive AI solutioning of business problems and implement highly optimized AI algorithms.
• Experience in large-scale distributed systems capable of performing end-to-end AI training and SLM & LLM modeling includes orchestration, fine tuning, model serving in production environment (batch/real time).
• Knowledge of GPU/CPU architecture and distributed computing.
• Working knowledge in advance Prompt engineering and optimizations techniques.
• Exposure to large-scale AI training, understanding of the compute system concepts (latency/throughput bottlenecks, pipelining, multiprocessing etc) and related performance analysis and tuning.
• Experience in Research and Development: Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in generative AI, deep learning, and related fields. Contribute to the research and development of novel generative models, exploring new algorithms and methodologies.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, debugging, performance analysis and relevant AI libraries/frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.)

Even better if you have :

• Advance degree in computer science, Mathematics, Data science or similar field preferred
• Prior experience with Generative AI techniques applied to Large Language Models And multimodal learning (Image, Video, Speech etc.). Advance knowledge of mathematics, Statistics and algorithms.
• Experience in GCP/Azure/AWS or any other cloud technology. Hands-on experience with inference and deployment environments would be an asset
• Experience in Research, prototype, and develop effective tools and infrastructure pipelines
• Publish innovative results on Github, scientific publications and patents.
• Familiarity with telecommunications industry data and use cases.

Where you’ll be working
In this hybrid role, you’ll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours
40

Diversity and Inclusion

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