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Data Science Lead - R01570347

Summary

Lead the design and deployment of production AI/ML and GenAI solutions—LLMs, agentic AI, RAG—on Databricks and major cloud platforms, establishing MLOps/LLMOps practices for enterprise clients.

Data Science Lead

Job requirements

Experience Range: With at least 8 years of experience in AI/ML engineering, machine learning, data science, software engineering, or related fields Key Responsibilities:
  • Design and implement advanced machine learning and AI solutions, including LLM-based applications and agentic AI systems, to address complex business challenges and deliver measurable business outcomes
  • Lead the development, deployment, and operation of production AI/ML and GenAI models across major cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, ensuring high availability and scalability
  • Build, orchestrate, and optimize AI agents and autonomous workflows, focusing on robust memory, context management, and multi-agent architectures
  • Drive enterprise AI/ML workloads within the Databricks ecosystem, leveraging Databricks AI Agents, Model Serving, Vector Search, MLflow, and Unity Catalog to enhance operational efficiency
  • Establish and maintain MLOps and LLMOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, model lifecycle management, experiment tracking, evaluation, and monitoring for continuous improvement
  • Develop and apply RAG architectures, embeddings, vector databases, prompt engineering, and LLM evaluation frameworks to improve model performance and reliability
  • Ensure AI security, responsible AI practices, data privacy, and effective mitigation of hallucination, prompt injection, and GenAI guardrails
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, enterprise-grade AI solutions
Required Skills:
  • Advanced hands-on programming experience in Python
  • Proficiency in SQL and experience with large-scale structured and unstructured datasets
  • Strong practical understanding of machine learning and AI fundamentals
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-based applications
  • Expertise in agentic AI including agent orchestration, autonomous workflows, tool/function calling, planning, task decomposition, memory, and context management
  • Extensive hands-on experience with Databricks AI Agents and the Databricks ecosystem
  • Experience with MLOps and LLMOps, including CI/CD, model lifecycle management, experiment tracking, and production deployment
  • Proven experience deploying and operating AI/ML or GenAI models/applications in Azure, AWS, or GCP
  • Expertise in RAG architectures, embeddings, vector databases/vector search, prompt engineering, and LLM evaluation
  • Proficiency with LLM and GenAI frameworks/orchestration tools such as LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, or similar technologies
Preferred Skills:
  • Experience building enterprise-grade agentic AI platforms or multi-agent systems
  • Expertise with Databricks Model Serving, Vector Search, MLflow, Unity Catalog, and related Databricks AI/ML capabilities
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, REST APIs, microservices, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience with managed GenAI platforms such as Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, or Google Vertex AI
  • Experience with vector databases like Pinecone, Azure AI Search, Weaviate, or Databricks Vector Search
  • Experience optimizing LLM applications for latency, throughput, scalability, token consumption, and cost
Desired Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, or a closely related discipline
  • Certification in machine learning, AI engineering, or data science from a recognized institution such as TensorFlow Developer Certificate or Databricks Certified Professional Data Scientist
  • Certification in cloud platforms or MLOps, for example AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialist or Azure AI Engineer Associate

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