Director, Data Science (Agentic AI, RAG pipelines, LLM, ML, NLP)

About this Role:

We are seeking a Director - Data Science to lead high-impact data science initiatives that convert diverse data into actionable insights and decision support. You will be responsible for designing developing and implementing solutions that drive research excellence operational efficiency and revenue growth. This role requires hands-on technical leadership as well as collaboration with multiple cross-functional stakeholders.

What youll do:

• Harness advanced technologies to extract interpret and visualize insights from large volumes of structured and unstructured data

• Collaborate with stakeholders to design develop and implement cutting-edge solutions that deliver insights through Machine Learning Deep Learning and Generative AI techniques

• Innovate in text analytics and develop creative approaches for interpreting complex datasets to deliver impactful recommendations

• Own high-visibility programs that translate business objectives into measurable results such as improved engagement retention and cost efficiency

• Build text analytics and knowledge retrieval capabilities for large-scale unstructured data to generate accurate explainable insights

• Define standards for evaluation guardrails prompt engineering retrieval quality and hallucination control to ensure trustworthy AI

• Enforce best practices in documentation code reuse and model lifecycle management while enhancing algorithms to meet evolving needs

• Ensure responsible AI practices covering data privacy IP safety and auditability

• Mentor and develop a high-performing team of data scientists fostering a culture of innovation and impact

What Youll Need:

• Experience:

  • Overall: 9-11 years in data science/AI/ML roles

  • Hands-on: 6 years applying ML/DL NLP and LLMs to real-world business problems including text mining and unstructured data analysis

• Education: Bachelors or Masters in Computer science Engineering Statistics Mathematics or related field from a reputed college

• Technical Skills:

• Expertise in Agentic AI RAG pipelines LLMs prompt engineering knowledge graphs and evaluation frameworks

• Well-versed in a wide range of ML algorithms advanced statistics and natural language processing

• Expertise with LLM customization techniques (RAG tuning advanced prompting etc.)

• Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL with strong experience in libraries such as Pandas NumPy scikit-learn TensorFlow PyTorch SpaCy NLTK

• Hands-on experience with vector databases (FAISS pgvector etc)

• Practical experience with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS) or GCP for model training deployment and scaling

• Familiarity with distributed computing (Spark/Databricks)

• Strong background in data preparation cleaning normalization and handling large-scale unstructured text data

• Knowledge of responsible AI privacy auditability and code management using GitHub/Bitbucket

• Basic visualization skills in Excel Power BI or Streamlit for dashboards and insights

• Passionate leader with a strong appetite for learning and applying emerging AI and data science technologies. Experience in analysing unstructured data and building scalable solutions

• Ability to foster innovation and drive adoption of next-generation AI tools for impactful business outcomes

• Strong knowledge of model serving monitoring and evaluation frameworks

• Proven expertise with vector databases knowledge databases embeddings feature stores

• Soft Skills: Excellent communication stakeholder management problem-solving and ability to work in fast-paced milestone-driven environments

What you will get:

• Competitive salary generous paid time off policy charity match program Group Medical Insurance Parental Leave Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and more!

• Collaborative team-oriented culture that embraces diversity

• Professional development and unlimited growth opportunities

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