NTT DATA North America · 22 hours ago
Senior Lead AI-NLP Engineer
Irving, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
7+ years expNTT DATA North America is a top 10 global services company and part of the NTT Group, a Fortune 29 telecommunications and services company based in Japan. They are currently seeking a Senior Lead AI-NLP Engineer to design, build, and deploy NLP models while leading the development of conversational systems and mentoring junior engineers.
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Responsibilities
Design, build, and deploy NLP models for intent classification, NER, and sentiment analysis using both traditional methods (BiLSTM, TF-IDF) and modern frameworks
Implement and optimize Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI to improve dialogue management and agent capability
Lead the development and optimization of conversational systems using Rasa NLU
Drive end-to-end development from POC to production-ready systems, including deploying models via API
Lead design reviews, define technical standards, and mentor junior engineers
Establish evaluation frameworks to measure model quality, accuracy, and safety
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience
5+ Years of experience in Python (5–6+ years), including Object-Oriented Programming and writing clean, testable code
3+ Years of hands-on experience with BiLSTM, TF-IDF classifiers, and word embeddings (Word2Vec, GloVe)
2+ Years of experience working in Rasa NLU and Rasa Core
Preferred
Experience with Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, or LLM-based RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
Strong experience in ML Frameworks: PyTorch or TensorFlow
Experience in Cloud & DevOps: Docker, AWS/GCP, and CI/CD Pipeline
Company
NTT DATA North America
NTT DATA, Inc. is a trusted global innovator of business and technology services.
10001+ employees
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