Data Scientist at Public Listed - Product Based company Ā· Bengaluru (Bangalore) Ā· 4 - 8 years Ā· ā¹25L - ā¹70L / yr Ā· Posted 6 Apr 2026

š¤ Data Scientist ā Frontier AI for Data Platforms & Distributed Systems (4ā8 Years)
Experience: 4ā8 Years
Location: Bengaluru (On-site / Hybrid)
Company: Publicly Listed, Global Product Platform
š§ About the Mission
We are building a Top 1% AI-Native Engineering & Data Organization ā from first principles.
This is not incremental improvement.
This is a full-stack transformation of a large-scale enterprise into an AI-native data platform company.
We are re-architecting:
- Legacy systems ā AI-native architectures
- Static pipelines ā autonomous, self-healing systems
- Data platforms ā intelligent, learning systems
- Software workflows ā agentic execution layers
This is the kind of shift you would expect from companies like Google or Microsoft ā
Except here, you will build it from day zero and scale it globally.
š§ The Opportunity: This role sits at the intersection of three high-impact domains:
1. Frontier AI Systems: Large Language Models (LLMs), Small Language Models (SLMs), and Agentic AI
2. Data Platforms: Warehouses, Lakehouses, Streaming Systems, Query Engines
3. Distributed Systems: High-throughput, low-latency, multi-region infrastructure
We are building systems where:
- Data platforms optimize themselves using ML/LLMs
- Pipelines are autonomous, self-healing, and adaptive
- Queries are generated, optimized, and executed intelligently
- Infrastructure learns from usage and evolves continuously
This is: AI as the control plane for data infrastructure
š§© What Youāll Work On
You will design and build AI-native systems deeply embedded inside data infrastructure.
1. AI-Native Data Platforms
- Build LLM-powered interfaces:
- Natural language ā SQL / pipelines / transformations
- Design semantic data layers:
- Embeddings, vector search, knowledge graphs
- Develop AI copilots:
- For data engineers, analysts, and platform users
2. Autonomous Data Pipelines
- Build self-healing ETL/ELT systems using AI agents
- Create pipelines that:
- Detect anomalies in real time
- Automatically debug failures
- Dynamically optimize transformations
3. Intelligent Query & Compute Optimization
- Apply ML/LLMs to:
- Query planning and execution
- Cost-based optimization using learned models
- Workload prediction and scheduling
- Build systems that:
- Learn from query patterns
- Continuously improve performance and cost efficiency
4. Distributed Data + AI Infrastructure
- Architect systems operating at:
- Billions of events per day
- Petabyte-scale data
- Work with:
- Distributed compute engines (Spark / Flink / Ray class systems)
- Streaming systems (Kafka-class infra)
- Vector databases and hybrid retrieval systems
5. Learning Systems & Feedback Loops
- Build closed-loop AI systems:
- Execution ā feedback ā model updates
- Develop:
- Continual learning pipelines
- Online learning systems for infra optimization
- Experimentation frameworks (A/B, bandits, eval pipelines)
6. LLM & Agentic Systems (Infra-Aware)
- Build agents that understand data systems
- Enable:
- Autonomous pipeline debugging
- Root cause analysis for infra failures
- Intelligent orchestration of data workflows
š§ What Weāre Looking For
Core Foundations
- Strong grounding in:
- Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP
- Statistics, optimization, probabilistic systems
- Distributed systems fundamentals
- Deep understanding of:
- Transformer architectures
- Modern LLM ecosystems
Hands-On Expertise
- Experience building:
- LLM / GenAI systems (RAG, fine-tuning, embeddings)
- Data platforms (warehouse, lake, lakehouse architectures)
- Distributed pipelines and compute systems
- Strong programming skills:
- Python (ML/AI stack)
- SQL (deep understanding ā query planning, optimization mindset)
Systems Thinking (Critical)
You think in systems, not components.
- Built or worked on:
- Large-scale data pipelines
- High-throughput distributed systems
- Low-latency, high-concurrency architectures
- Understand:
- Query optimization and execution
- Data partitioning, indexing, caching
- Trade-offs in distributed systems
š„ What Sets You Apart (Top 1%)
- Built AI-powered data platforms or infra systems in production
- Designed or contributed to:
- Query engines / optimizers
- Data observability / lineage systems
- AI-driven infra or AIOps platforms
- Experience with:
- Multi-modal AI (logs, metrics, traces, text)
- Agentic AI systems
- Autonomous infrastructure
- Worked on systems at scale comparable to:
- Google (BigQuery-like systems)
- Meta (real-time analytics infra)
- Snowflake / Databricks (lakehouse architectures)
𧬠Ideal Background (Not Mandatory)
We often see strong candidates from:
- Data infrastructure or platform engineering teams
- AI-first startups or research-driven environments
- High-scale product companies
Experience building:
- Internal platforms used by 1000s of engineers
- Systems serving millions of users / high throughput workloads
- Multi-region, distributed cloud systems
š§ The Kind of Problems Youāll Solve
- Can LLMs replace traditional query optimizers?
- How do we build self-healing data pipelines at scale?
- Can data systems learn from every query and improve automatically?
- How do we embed reasoning and planning into infrastructure layers?
- What does a fully autonomous data platform look like?
Background: We Commonly See (But Not Limited To)
Our team often includes engineers from top-tier institutions and strong research or product backgrounds, including:
- Leading engineering schools in India and globally
- Engineers with experience in top product companies, AI startups, or research-driven environments
- That said, we care far more about demonstrated ability, depth, and impact than pedigree alone.

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- Leverage Databricks, Apache Spark, and Hadoop for large-scale data processing and model training.
- Implement workflows and pipelines using Airflow and AWS EMR for automation and orchestration.
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- Experience with big data platforms (Hadoop, Spark) and distributed data processing.
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Job Description: Python + AI
Company: Wissen Technology
Location: Bangalore, India
Experience: 5+Years
Employment Type: Full-Time
Role: Python + AI / Data Engineer
About the Role
Wissen Technology is looking for experienced Python + AI / Data Engineering professionals to join our technology team in Bangalore. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience in Python, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, PySpark, Snowflake, and data pipeline development.
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- Develop robust ETL/ELT pipelines for processing large volumes of structured and unstructured data.
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- Design and implement scalable Snowflake data models, tables, views, and SQL transformations.
- Work with batch and, where applicable, real-time data processing pipelines.
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- Develop LLM-based applications, RAG solutions, AI agents, and AI-powered services.
- Integrate AI models with enterprise data platforms and data pipelines.
- Develop REST APIs and microservices using FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
- Perform data cleansing, transformation, validation, and quality checks.
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- Implement data pipeline monitoring, logging, error handling, and alerting.
- Work with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Collaborate with Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Software Engineers, Architects, and business stakeholders.
- Participate in technical design, architecture, code reviews, and production support.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices.
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- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
- Experience working on enterprise-scale AI and data engineering projects.
- Experience combining Python + PySpark + Snowflake + AI/GenAI in production environments.
- Experience with Databricks is an advantage.
- Experience with AI Agents / Agentic AI and tool/function calling.
- Knowledge of distributed systems and cloud-native architecture.
- Experience leading technical initiatives or mentoring engineering teams.
Role OverviewĀ
As a Data Scientist, you will work with business stakeholders, AI engineers, and domain experts to transform data into actionable insights and intelligent solutions. You will develop machine learning models, perform statistical analysis, and contribute to AI-driven products that create measurable business impact.Ā
Key ResponsibilitiesĀ
Data Science & Machine LearningĀ
- Analyze structured and unstructured data to identify patterns, trends, and business opportunities.Ā Ā
- Perform exploratory data analysis (EDA), feature engineering, and data preparation.Ā Ā
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- Design and execute experiments to improve model accuracy and business outcomes.Ā Ā
Ā AI Solution DevelopmentĀ
- Collaborate with AI Engineers, Data Engineers, and domain experts to build AI-powered solutions.Ā Ā
- Translate business requirements into scalable data science approaches.Ā Ā
- Contribute to Generative AI and advanced analytics initiatives where applicable.Ā Ā
- Document methodologies, model performance, and key findings.Ā Ā
Ā Required Technical SkillsĀ
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL for data analysis, feature engineering, and machine learning.Ā Ā
- Strong understanding of Statistics, Probability, Linear Algebra, and Calculus as applied to machine learning and data science.Ā Ā
- Experience with Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA), data preprocessing, feature engineering, feature selection, and handling missing or imbalanced data.Ā Ā
- Good understanding of Supervised, Unsupervised, and Ensemble Machine Learning algorithms, including their assumptions, strengths, limitations, and appropriate use cases.Ā Ā
- Strong knowledge of Regression, Classification, Clustering, Time Series Forecasting, Dimensionality Reduction, Recommendation Systems, and Anomaly Detection techniques.Ā Ā
- Experience with Model Evaluation, Cross-Validation, Hyperparameter Optimization, Bias-Variance Trade-off, Feature Importance, Explainable AI (XAI), and Performance Metrics.Ā Ā
- Understanding of Statistical Inference, Hypothesis Testing, Probability Distributions, Sampling Techniques, Confidence Intervals, and A/B Testing.Ā Ā
- Experience translating business problems into analytical approaches and developing scalable, data-driven solutions.Ā Ā
- Working knowledge of Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Prompt Engineering, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is preferred.Ā
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- Exposure to Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, or Agentic AI.Ā Ā
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- Knowledge of construction, engineering, manufacturing, or industrial domains.Ā Ā
- Participation in hackathons, research, Kaggle competitions, or open-source projects.Ā Ā
Ā Soft SkillsĀ
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, effective communication and collaboration, ownership mindset, adaptability, continuous learning, and a passion for innovation.
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We are looking for a Data Science & Machine Learning Senior Associate with 3ā5 years of relevant experience in data science, machine learning, and analytics. The candidate will be responsible for developing predictive models, analyzing complex datasets, building scalable ML solutions, and supporting production-grade data science applications on cloud platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement machine learning and predictive analytics models.
- Perform data analysis, statistical modeling, and optimization to solve business problems.
- Build demand forecasting and predictive models using time-series and other advanced techniques.
- Work with large datasets using Python, SQL, PySpark, and cloud-based data platforms.
- Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines for ML model development and deployment.
- Implement MLOps practices including model deployment, monitoring, retraining, and data-drift detection.
- Collaborate with software engineers, product teams, and business stakeholders to convert business requirements into analytical solutions.
- Validate models for accuracy, robustness, bias, and production readiness.
- Create meaningful visualizations and communicate analytical insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Required Skills
- Python
- SQL
- Data Science & Machine Learning
- Predictive Modeling
- Statistical Analysis
- Machine Learning Algorithms
- Optimization Techniques
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- BigQuery
- Dataflow
- Dataproc
- Data Fusion
- Cloud SQL
- Airflow
- PySpark
- PostgreSQL
- Terraform
- Tekton
- APIs
- MLOps
Preferred Skill
- Java
Good to Have
- Demand Forecasting
- Time-Series Analysis
- Neural Networks
- Ensemble Methods
- Support Vector Machines (SVM)
- Regression and Cluster Analysis
- ML Model Testing
- Bias Detection and Data Drift Monitoring
- Production ML Deployment
- QlikSense
- Automotive or Supply Chain Analytics
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related technical field.Master's degree in a relevant quantitative or technical field is preferred.
1st virtual , 2nd round F2F
Python pyspark, SQL, data engineer
5+yrs
Bang/hyderabad
immediate to 15days.
Key Responsibilities
ļ· Strong understanding of Machine Learning algorithms (supervised and unsupervised)
ļ· Hands-on experience with Deep Learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar)
ļ· Experience in NLP techniques and libraries (NLTK, spaCy, Hugging Face, etc.)
ļ· Solid knowledge of Statistics, probability, and data analysis methods
ļ· Proficiency in SQL for querying relational databases
ļ· Strong programming skills in Python (or similar languages)
ļ· Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex concepts simply
Required Qualifications
ļ· 3+ years of hands-on experience as a Data Scientist or in a similar role.
ļ· Strong expertise in classical machine learning and regression modeling.
ļ· Solid understanding of statistics, including probability, distributions, hypothesis testing,
and correlation analysis.
ļ· Proficiency in Python with libraries such as: scikit-learn pandas NumPy
ļ· Experience working with structured/tabular data.
ļ· Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking skills.
ļ· Ability to clearly explain models and results to non-technical stakeholders.
Data Science Engineer ā Python, SQL, Statistics & Machine Learning
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Experience: 3ā5 years
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Work Mode: Work from Office, with some flexibility
Work Week: 5 days
About Talview
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Role Overview
We are looking for a Data Science Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Python, SQL, statistics and classical machine learning, along with experience working on GenAI and Large Language Models (LLMs).
You will work across data processing, statistical analysis, experimentation, model development, evaluation and production AI/ML workflows. You will collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to translate business problems into measurable data science solutions.
This role requires practical experience in classical ML and statistics, beyond working only with LLM APIs or prompt engineering.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Develop complex SQL queries for data extraction, transformation, analysis and validation.
- Use Python for data processing, exploratory data analysis, automation and reusable experimentation utilities.
- Apply statistical analysis, hypothesis testing and experimental design to evaluate business and product outcomes.
- Develop and evaluate machine learning models using appropriate metrics and clearly defined success criteria.
- Build LLM workflows involving prompting, structured outputs and comparative evaluation of models and configurations.
- Create evaluation datasets, benchmarks, sampling strategies and ground-truth validation approaches.
- Perform error analysis and root-cause analysis to identify model failures, anomalies and performance degradation.
- Analyse production data and troubleshoot data, model and pipeline issues.
- Integrate data from APIs, databases and other structured and unstructured sources.
- Collaborate with Engineering and Product teams on ML pipelines, evaluation frameworks and inference workflows.
- Research and test techniques to improve AI/ML system performance.
Required Skills and Experience
- 3ā5 years of relevant experience in Data Science, Machine Learning, AI or a related field.
- Strong hands-on Python programming skills.
- Strong SQL skills for complex querying, data transformation and analysis.
- Solid understanding of statistics, hypothesis testing, experiment design and performance measurement.
- Practical experience developing and evaluating classical machine learning models.
- Experience with LLMs, prompting, structured outputs and evaluation.
- Experience defining evaluation metrics, benchmarks and error-analysis approaches.
- Ability to work with APIs, databases and structured and unstructured datasets.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to explain technical decisions, interpret results and communicate findings to stakeholders.
Preferred Skills
- Experience designing end-to-end ML or LLM workflows.
- Experience with dataset creation, sampling, annotation and ground-truth validation.
- Experience analysing production AI/ML systems and debugging model or pipeline issues.
- Experience building reusable experimentation and evaluation frameworks.
Key Skills
Python, SQL, Data Science, Statistics, Machine Learning, Classical ML, Hypothesis Testing, Experimental Design, Model Evaluation, Exploratory Data Analysis, GenAI, Large Language Models, LLM Evaluation, Error Analysis
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Data Scientist ā Agentic AI with strong expertise in Python, Machine Learning, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), RAG and Agentic AI.
The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in developing, fine-tuning, evaluating and deploying machine learning and GenAI solutions. The candidate should be comfortable working with open-source LLMs, LangChain/LangGraph, PySpark and AI observability/tracing frameworks.
The role involves building intelligent AI systems that can reason, use tools, retrieve information and execute multi-step tasks using Agentic AI architectures.
Mandatory Technical Skills
1. Data Science & Python
- 5+ years of experience in Data Science / Machine Learning / AI.
- Strong programming experience in Python.
- Strong understanding of data analysis, feature engineering and statistical techniques.
- Experience with Python ML and data science libraries such as:
- NumPy
- Pandas
- Scikit-learn
- Matplotlib / Seaborn
- Good understanding of data preprocessing, exploratory data analysis and experimentation.
2. Machine Learning & Statistics
- Strong understanding of Machine Learning fundamentals.
- Experience with supervised and unsupervised learning techniques.
- Knowledge of:
- Regression
- Classification
- Clustering
- Feature Engineering
- Model Selection
- Hyperparameter Tuning
- Cross-validation
- Strong understanding of Statistics / ML fundamentals.
- Ability to interpret model performance and statistical results.
3. Generative AI / LLM
- Strong hands-on experience with Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs).
- Understanding of Transformer architecture and modern LLM-based applications.
- Experience working with commercial or open-source LLMs.
- Strong understanding of:
- Prompt Engineering
- Context Management
- Embeddings
- Tokenization
- LLM inference
- Hallucination mitigation
4. RAG ā Retrieval Augmented Generation
- Strong hands-on experience developing RAG applications.
- Experience with:
- Document ingestion
- Chunking
- Embeddings
- Vector search
- Semantic search
- Retrieval pipelines
- Context retrieval
- Reranking
- Ability to optimize RAG pipelines for relevance, accuracy and latency.
- Experience integrating LLMs with enterprise knowledge sources.
5. Agentic AI
- Hands-on experience building Agentic AI / AI Agent solutions.
- Understanding of agent architecture and multi-step reasoning workflows.
- Experience with:
- AI Agents
- Multi-Agent systems
- Tool Calling
- Function Calling
- Agent orchestration
- Planning and reasoning workflows
- Memory
- Workflow automation
- Ability to build agents that can interact with tools, APIs, databases and external systems.
6. LangChain / LangGraph
- Strong hands-on experience with LangChain and/or LangGraph.
- Experience building LLM workflows and agent-based applications.
- Understanding of:
- Chains
- Agents
- Tools
- State management
- Graph-based workflows
- Agent orchestration
- Retrieval workflows
- Experience designing scalable Agentic AI workflows.
7. LLM Fine-Tuning
- Hands-on experience with LLM fine-tuning.
- Understanding of techniques such as:
- Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT)
- Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
- LoRA
- QLoRA
- Experience preparing datasets for fine-tuning.
- Ability to evaluate fine-tuned models against baseline models.
- Understanding of model optimization and inference considerations.
8. BERT / LLaMA / Open-Source LLMs
Experience working with one or more open-source / transformer-based models such as:
- BERT
- LLaMA / Llama
- Mistral
- Gemma
- Qwen
- Other open-source LLMs
Candidate should understand model loading, inference, fine-tuning and evaluation.
9. PySpark
- Strong experience with PySpark for large-scale data processing.
- Experience working with large datasets and distributed data processing.
- Knowledge of:
- Data transformations
- Data cleaning
- Aggregations
- Joins
- Spark SQL
- Performance optimization
- Ability to build scalable data processing pipelines.
10. Model Validation & Evaluation
- Experience validating and evaluating ML and GenAI models.
- Understanding of traditional ML evaluation metrics.
- Experience evaluating LLM/RAG applications using relevant quality metrics.
- Ability to compare model performance and identify areas for improvement.
- Experience with:
- Accuracy
- Precision
- Recall
- F1 Score
- ROC-AUC
- Retrieval metrics
- LLM response quality
- Groundedness / relevance
- Experience designing evaluation datasets and test cases is preferred.
11. AI Tracing / Observability
- Experience with AI/LLM tracing and observability.
- Ability to monitor AI applications in production.
- Experience tracking:
- LLM requests/responses
- Latency
- Token usage
- Errors
- Retrieval performance
- Agent/tool execution
- Model performance
- Exposure to tools/frameworks such as LangSmith, OpenTelemetry, Arize Phoenix, MLflow or similar is preferred.
12. Model Deployment
- Experience deploying ML/LLM/GenAI solutions into production.
- Exposure to cloud and/or on-premise model deployment.
- Experience with model serving, APIs and production inference.
- Knowledge of deployment environments such as:
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- On-premise infrastructure
- Experience with Docker, APIs and CI/CD is an advantage.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop and deploy Data Science, Machine Learning and GenAI solutions.
- Build production-ready RAG and Agentic AI applications.
- Develop intelligent agents capable of tool calling, reasoning and multi-step task execution.
- Build LLM-powered applications using LangChain/LangGraph.
- Work with open-source LLMs including BERT, LLaMA and other transformer-based models.
- Fine-tune LLMs for specific business use cases.
- Develop scalable data processing pipelines using PySpark.
- Perform data analysis, feature engineering and statistical modeling.
- Develop and maintain model validation and evaluation frameworks.
- Evaluate ML and LLM models using appropriate performance and quality metrics.
- Implement AI tracing, monitoring and observability for production GenAI systems.
- Deploy models and AI applications in cloud or on-premise environments.
- Optimize model performance, response quality, latency and cost.
- Troubleshoot issues related to model inference, retrieval, agents and LLM workflows.
- Collaborate with Data Scientists, ML Engineers, Software Engineers and business stakeholders.
- Convert business requirements into scalable AI/ML solutions.
Good to Have
- Experience with Vector Databases such as:
- FAISS
- Pinecone
- Weaviate
- Milvus
- Chroma
- Azure AI Search
- Experience with MLflow or similar ML lifecycle tools.
- Experience with Docker/Kubernetes.
- Experience with REST APIs / FastAPI.
- Knowledge of cloud AI/ML services.
- Experience with MLOps / LLMOps.
- Experience with multi-agent frameworks other than LangChain/LangGraph.
- Experience working with enterprise GenAI applications.
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate should be a Data Scientist / ML Engineer with strong GenAI and Agentic AI experience, rather than a pure Python developer.
A strong candidate would typically have:
Data Science + Python + ML + Statistics + GenAI/LLM + RAG + Agentic AI + LangChain/LangGraph + LLM Fine-Tuning + Open-Source LLMs + PySpark + Model Evaluation + AI Observability + Model Deployment.
Core Mandatory Skills
Data Science, Python, Machine Learning, Statistics/ML Fundamentals, GenAI/LLM, RAG, Agentic AI, LangChain/LangGraph, LLM Fine-Tuning, BERT/LLaMA/Open-Source LLMs, PySpark, Model Validation/Evaluation, AI Tracing/Observability, Cloud/On-Prem Model Deployment.












