Scismic
Senior Data Scientist - NLP/LLM Specialist
San Diego, California · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$155k-$240kDetected 320 days ago
PythonC++AlgorithmsSQLVector DatabasesAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesMachine LearningTensorFlowPyTorchSparkAirflowData ScienceNLPLLMsRAGMLOpsStatisticsExcelResearch
About the role
- Scismic is supporting a global consulting company that fosters a highly collaborative and inclusive culture, encouraging creativity, growth, and innovation.
- The company is seeking an exceptional Senior Data Scientist with deep expertise in Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models to join the consulting practice.
- You'll work directly with Fortune 500 clients to solve complex business challenges using state-of-the-art AI technologies across diverse industries.
Responsibilities
- We do not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind and are committed to building an agency where everyone is welcome, and every voice is heard.
- With a team of over 1,000 professionals across 50 global markets, the organization partners with world-class clients to solve complex business challenges across diverse industries.
- The company values a "builder's mindset," empowering employees to create new solutions, develop lasting impact, and grow their careers in a supportive environment.
- You will work end-to-end from project initiation through client delivery, comfortable both building sophisticated algorithms and presenting findings directly to clients.
- You excel at automating repetitive tasks and developing reusable frameworks that scale across multiple engagements.
- Strong presentation skills and the ability to build trust with senior executives are essential.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, RLHF, and deployment at scale
- Expert-level Python, with strong knowledge of PyTorch/TensorFlow, Hugging Face ecosystem
- Experience writing production code and ensuring well-managed software delivery
- Experience with foundation models (GPT, BERT, T5, LLaMA, etc.)
- Knowledge of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems
- Experience with evaluation metrics and benchmarking for language models
- Large Language Model proficiency: Hands-on experience with LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, RLHF, and deployment at scale
- MLOps & Infrastructure: Experience with model deployment, monitoring, and scaling in production environments
Skills
- MLflow, Weights & Biases, Apache Airflow, Spark, Vector databases
Compensation
- In order to comply with equal pay and salary transparency laws in various locations, we believe the target range of base compensation in all locations within the United States for this role is $155k-$240k.
Benefits
- Our mission is to create a positive and entrepreneurial environment where talented people thrive on creativity.
- In addition to medical, dental and vision coverage, we offer a generous unlimited PTO plan, 401k program and comprehensive benefits plan.
Company info
- We are proud to be an
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer.
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