Data Scientist - Senior Manager

Officer – Data Scientist

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated and technically skilled Data Scientist to join our AI/ML Science team as part of the Agentic AI platform initiative. The Science pillar drives advancements in LLM research, fine-tuning, evaluation frameworks, anomaly detection, and next-generation model development, partnering closely with Platform Engineering, SRE, and Pods/Business Engagement to deliver robust agentic solutions and platform features.

In this role, you will drive applied research and product-oriented data science within the Agentic AI platform initiative. Independently own domain-specific model evaluation, fine-tuning, and operationalization workstreams. This role requires deep technical skills in LLMs, graph-based reasoning, and production-scale AI deployments, as well as the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and business teams.  

Key Responsibilities

• Own BU specific AI/ML problem statements and objectives to deliver value leveraging agentic AI workflows and domain specific LLM solutions.
• Lead foundational and domain model evaluation, fine-tuning, and prompt optimization with robust data curation and governance.
• Design and implement evaluation frameworks, taxonomies, and metrics for model benchmarking and anomaly detection.
• Build and maintain knowledge graphs, embeddings, and inference engines to enable semantic search, reasoning, and scalable serving.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy scalable AI solutions in production environments.
• Conduct experiments, analyze results, and communicate findings and best practices across teams.
• Stay abreast of the latest advancements in generative AI, LLMs, and agentic systems.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or related field.
• 5+ years of overall experience in IT and 3+ years of relevant experience in applied machine learning or NLP, with hands-on work in production environments.
• Strong experience with LLMs, GenAI, or NLP, including fine-tuning and evaluation.
• Proficiency in Python and ML libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn).
• Experience with graph databases (e.g., Neo4j, DGL), knowledge graphs, and vector stores.
• Familiarity with cloud AI/ML services (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and MLOps practices.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Prior work on agentic AI is a big plus

Work Schedule

On-premise

Keywords

Senior Data Scientist, Generative AI, LLM, Applied Machine Learning, RAG, Agentic Applications, Python, Azure, Model Evaluation

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