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Korn Ferry · 1 week ago

Senior AI Prompt Engineer

Albany, New York Metropolitan Area

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$120K/yr - $188K/yr

5+ years exp

Korn Ferry is seeking a Senior AI Machine Learning Scientist – Research to join a top Energy / Tech global leader. This role involves researching and developing AI solutions for industrial problems, leading projects, mentoring early-career researchers, and creating intellectual property through patents and publications.

Management Consulting

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Research, conceptualize, and develop AI solutions for hard industrial problems

Lead projects and collaborate with teams of peer researchers on new and continuing projects ensuring alignment with strategic objectives

Work independently as well as guide development of new technologies to demonstrate and realize value of AI through early prototypes and solutions for real-world problems

Mentor early-career researchers to be effective in project execution and support their technical growth

Employ software libraries, tools, and practices to implement efficient, scalable, and reusable solutions

Create intellectual property by writing invention disclosures and filing patents

Publish research work in peer-reviewed conferences and journals

Write grant proposals and support execution of R&D programs

Qualification

PythonAI project leadershipGenAI packagesML frameworksPhD in AI-related fieldMulti-Modal Foundation ModelsIntegrating generative AIWriting grant proposalsMentoring researchersCollaboration with researchersContribution to public codebasesCommunication skills

Required

PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or related fields and a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a focus on Artificial Intelligence OR MS degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or related fields with a minimum of 8 years of work experience with a focus on Artificial Intelligence

Demonstrated ability to write Python code and hands-on development of AI solutions

Demonstrated ability to lead AI projects

Familiarity with GenAI packages including models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, etc. and ML frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc

Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals at the Masters' level for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening

Must be willing to work out of an office located in Albany, NY

Preferred

Completed PhD focused on new advancements in Artificial Intelligence

Experience in one or more of: (a) Multi-Modal Foundation Models with image, text, tabular data, and/or time-series data, (b) Integrating generative AI with knowledge graphs and graph-based reasoning, and (c) Integrating physics and domain knowledge in scalable machine learning solutions

Strong communication skills to engage with stakeholders to define problems worth solving and to share progress and outcomes

Experience in leading research efforts and collaborating with researchers

Experience in writing grant proposals and participating in the execution of grant-supported research; includes demonstrated successful communication with government agencies such as DoE, ARPA-E, DoD, and DARPA

Contribution to public domain codebases and/or significant GitHub portfolio