Lead Data Scientist (AI Engineer w/Python) Full-time

Your Role and Responsibilities
Our mission is to revolutionise how humans interact with machines by developing and deploying the latest conversational artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP) and speech technologies in IBM’s industry-leading platforms, watsonx Assistant and watsonx Orchestrate. We are proud of the state-of-the-art, scalable and performant machine learning based system we have built, and we are now significantly expanding our team! Being a Senior Data Scientist in NLP, AI and Machine Learning involves creating learning systems that enable humans and machines to perform better. These systems are designed to create new partnerships between people and machines to augment and scale human expertise in every industry, from healthcare to financial services to education.

Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain machine learning models and LLMs with a focus on big data Work in an Agile, collaborative environment to understand and develop solutions for requirements.
• You’ll be involved in designing, coding and testing innovative applications in areas such as machine learning, computational linguistics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), advanced and semantic information search, extraction, classification and reinforcement learning with exploration.
• Collaborate with research teams to adopt the latest technologies in AI and ML.
• Lead in implementing, testing and improving algorithms in these areas and proactively identify and file patentable technology
• Employ IBM Design Thinking to create products that provide a great user experience along with high performance, security, quality and stability.

***Please Note*** – This position requires working onsite 3 days per week at our Mulhuddart location in Dublin.

Introduction
As a Data Scientist at IBM, you will help transform our clients’ data into tangible business value by analyzing information, communicating outcomes and collaborating on product development. Work with Best in Class open source and visual tools, along with the most flexible and scalable deployment options. Whether it’s investigating patient trends or weather patterns, you will work to solve real world problems for the industries transforming how we live.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 5+ years of experience using Python to deliver AI-based applications into production environments
• 3+ years of experience in Machine Learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, MXNet, scikit-learn, or similar frameworks
• 3+ years of applied knowledge in LLMs
• Experience leading AI and/pr ML projects to completion & deploying into production
• Experience running AI-based application experiments and making changes

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Ability to develop and debug nondeterministic, adaptive systems
• Experience with multi-modal LLMs
• Experience with product grade decoder, training speech to text models and applied ML algorithms is a plus
• Experience with Voice/Protocols SIP/RTP is a plus

Required Education
None

Preferred Education
Bachelor’s Degree

About Business Unit
IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

Wonder if IBM is the one for you?
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About IBM
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Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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Being You @ IBM
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