Senior Data Scientist

What youll do

• Identify product features that can be enabled using AI/ML and own the journey from design to production deployment.
• Work closely with the engineering manager for estimation, integration and production deployment.
• Identify new techniques that would benefit customers and ensure that some of them are adopted.
• Explore, design, and implement Agentic AI solutions using LLMs, AI agents, tool/function calling, and multi-step workflows to solve complex business problems and enhance product capabilities.
• Showcase ML expertise through thought leadership articles and show and tell - POCs
• Lead a small team of data scientists.
• Build a culture of merit in the team.

To be successful in this role, you should have:

Qualification:

• M.Tech from IIT (CS) or B.Tech/B.E from IIT/NIT.

Experience:

• Should have worked in the industry for at least 6-10 years.
• Should be capable of conceiving original ideas and coding them as working algorithms.
• Should have worked on 2 problems from definition to deployment.

Skills:

• Solved problems using Machine Learning in at least one area – NLP, CV or Predictive Analytics.
• Excellent programming skills and must be able to implement complex algorithms in Python
• Extensive understanding of ML and statistical algorithms
• Hands-on experience with use of standard machine learning libraries such as OpenCV, Tensorflow, Keras etc.
• Hands-on experience with Generative AI and Agentic AI, including LLMs, AI agents, prompt engineering, tool/function calling, and agentic workflows.
• Capability of converting a PoC to production quality code and subsequently deploy
• Good communication skills both Oral and Written
• Mentored or led a small team of ML engineers.

Nice to Have

• Bigdata experience
• Credited courses focused on linear algebra, stochastic models, pattern recognition, design and analysis of algorithms, machine learning
• Should be capable of converting theory to practice by reading relevant papers.