Manager - Data Scientist

Required Skills:

• 6+ years of overall NLP/GenAI/Recommender Systems experience with considerable time spent in building enterprise grade solutions.
• Proficiency in working with large datasets and performing data preprocessing on cloud platforms.
• Practical experience in developing generative AI applications, including prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications.
• Good understanding of LLM concepts and fundamental. Hands-on experience in leveraging LLMs for POCs and applied problem solving and integrating it into overall solution workflow.
• Practical experience in developing various types of recommender systems, including content-based, collaborative filtering, or hybrid methods.
• Strong programming skills in Python; experience with PySpark is a plus. Azure Cloud experience is mandatory.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate data science outcomes.
• Experience with version control systems like Git.
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices, developing/consuming RESTful API is a plus.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with popular recommender system-related algorithms like ALS, KNN and LightFM.
• Familiarity with transformer architecture, types of LLMs (encoder-only, encoder-decoder and decoder-only).

• Some hand-on experience in solving NLP problem with/without GenAI will be a plus.