Data Scientist

POSITION / TITLE: Data Science Lead

Location: Offshore – Hyderabad/Bangalore/Pune

Who are we looking for?

Individuals with 8+ years of experience implementing and managing data science projects. Excellent working knowledge of traditional machine learning and LLM techniques.

‎ The candidate must demonstrate the ability to navigate and advise on complex ML ecosystems from a model building and evaluation perspective. Experience in NLP and chatbots domains is preferred.

We acknowledge the job market is blurring the line between data roles: while software skills are necessary, the emphasis of this position is on data science skills, not on data-, ML- nor software-engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead data science and machine learning projects, contributing to model development, optimization and evaluation.
• Perform data cleaning, feature engineering, and exploratory data analysis.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions, document and communicate project progress, manage non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with other DS and engineers to deliver projects.
  
  

Technical Skills – Must Have

• Experience in and understanding of the natural language processing (NLP) and large language model (LLM) landscape.
• Proficiency with Python for data analysis, supervised & unsupervised learning ML tasks.
• Ability to translate complex machine learning problem statements into specific deliverables and requirements.
• Should have worked with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Working knowledge of SQL and no-SQL databases.
• Ability to create data and ML pipelines for more efficient and repeatable data science projects using MLOps principles.
• Keep abreast with new tools, algorithms and techniques in machine learning and works to implement them in the organization.
• Strong understanding of evaluation and monitoring metrics for machine learning projects.
  
  

Technical Skills – Good To Have

• Track record of getting ML models into production
• Experience building chatbots.
• Experience with closed and open source LLMs.
• Experience with frameworks and technologies like scikit-learn, BERT, langchain, autogen…
• Certifications or courses in data science.
  
  

Education

• Master’s/Bachelors/PhD Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
  
  

Process Skills

• Understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Ability to follow SDLC processes and contribute to technical documentation.
  
  

Behavioral Skills

• Self-motivated and capable of working independently with minimal management supervision.
• Well-developed design, analytical & problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent team player, able to work with virtual teams in several time zones.
  
  

Skills:- Data Science, Python, Large Language Models (LLM) and Natural Language Processing (NLP)