Dist Engr-AI Science

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About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Distinguished Engineer to lead the architecture and design our AI/ML practice particularly focused on agentic this role you will spearhead the development and implementation of cutting-edge AI/ML solutions leveraging your deep expertise to drive innovation and establish industry best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design develop and deploy end-to-end AI/ML solutions including data pipelines model training deployment monitoring and optimization.
• Develop technical high level and low level architecture for generative and agentic systems
• Lead and mentor a high performing team of data scientists and AI/ML engineers fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
• Stay abreast of the latest advancements and trends in Generative/Agentic AI continuously evaluating and integrating emerging technologies.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including product engineering and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into innovative AI/ML solutions.
• Champion the adoption of AI/ML best practices ensuring the development and deployment of secure reliable and ethical AI systems.

Qualifications:

• Masters or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning or a related field.
• At least 12 years of experience in architecting designing and implementing large-scale AI/ML systems in a production environment including implementation of large-scale NLP Projects and Fine tuning & Evaluation of LLMs for downstream tasks such as text generation Classification summarization question answering entity extraction etc.
• Proven track record of designing developing and deploying agentic solutions at scale with measurable results mapped to business goals
• Ability to represent the team in leadership forums and elevate the AI practice by creating next gen solutions and evangelizing best practices
• Ability to guide the team to correctly analyze cognitive insights and leverage unstructured conversational data to create transformative intelligent context aware and adaptive AI systems
• Experience in Machine Learning Deep Learning model development & deployment from scratch in Python.
• Working knowledge of NLP frameworks and libraries like NLTK Spacy Transformers Pytorch Tensorflow hugging face apis.
• Working knowledge of various supervised and unsupervised ML algorithms . Should know the various data preprocessing techniques and its impact on algorithms accuracy precision and recall.
• Knowledge & Implementation Experience of Deep Learning i.e Convolutional Neural Nets (CNN) Recursive Neural Nets (RNN) & Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) Deep Reinforcement Learning.
• Experience with RESTful JSON API services.
• Working knowledge on these: Word embeddings TF-IDF Tokenization N-Grams Stemmers lemmatization Part of speech tagging entity resolution ontology lexicology phonetics intents entities and context.
• Experience in analyzing Live Chat/call conversation with agents.
• Expertise in Python Sql PySpark Scala and/or other languages and tools.
• Understanding of validation framework for generative model output and perspective on future ready systems to scale validation
• Familiarity with GPU/CPU architecture and distributed computing and general infra needs to scale Gen AI models
• Ability to provide technical thought leadership on model architecture delivery monitoring measurement and model lifecycle best practices.
• Excellent communication interpersonal and presentation skills with the ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with MLOps tools and best practices.
• Contributions to open-source AI/ML projects.
• Familiarity with telecommunications industry data and use cases.

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