Select Minds LLC · 4 months ago
Sr Data Scientist GenAI
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$150K/yr - $210K/yr
10+ years expSelect Minds LLC is a company focused on delivering profitability through effective communication and consulting solutions. They are seeking a Senior Data Scientist specializing in NLP, LLM, and Generative AI to design and deploy models, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and mentor junior data scientists.
AnalyticsInformation TechnologyIT InfrastructureSoftware
Responsibilities
Design, build, fine-tune, and deploy LLMs, transformer-based NLP models, and GenAI solutions for both batch and real-time/streaming contexts
Own all major components of ML pipelines: data ingestion, cleaning, pre-processing (structured & unstructured), embedding, search & retrieval, prompt engineering, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
Collaborate closely with ML Engineers, MLOps, software engineering, product, compliance, legal etc., to move models from prototype to production—ensuring reliability, scalability, monitoring, and maintainability
Define and implement evaluation frameworks: accuracy, bias, fairness, hallucination, consistency, latency; run UAT, stress-tests, drift detection
Optimize models and pipelines for performance, cost, and efficiency
Ensure best practices in model development: version control, repeatability, documentation, governance, and ethical AI use
Mentor more junior data scientists; help build team skills in NLP, GenAI practices, prompt engineering, fine-tuning
Identify new use cases; prototype innovations in GenAI/NLP; keep up with latest research and open source developments, decide what to adopt
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in data science / ML, with substantial work in NLP, LLMs, or Generative AI
Deep hands-on experience in Python, using frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, HuggingFace etc
Proven track record building transformer/NLP / LLM models; experience with fine-tuning, prompt engineering
Solid experience with information retrieval / search: keyword + semantic search, embeddings, vector databases
Experience working in production / deploying models (batch and streaming), working with MLOps practices
Strong algorithmic / statistical / mathematical fundamentals. Ability to reason about model behaviour, bias, uncertainty
Good communicator: able to translate complex technical detail to business / non-technical stakeholders
Preferred
Master's in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Statistics, Machine Learning or related field
Experience with multimodal models (vision + text) or emerging LLMs and agent-based systems
Experience with open source LLMs & toolkits; familiarity with LangChain or similar frameworks
Prior experience in regulated environments (finance, risk, legal, compliance) with strong governance, privacy requirements
Benefits
Competitive salary
Flexible schedule
Opportunity for advancement
Company
Select Minds LLC
Select Minds LLC is a global Information Technology services company providing management consulting, technology and business process outsourcing, quality assurance and staff augmentation services to large corporations across the globe As your trusted partner, we will build a relationship that goes far beyond simply selling you our services or deploying an IT professional to augment your staff.
51-200 employees
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