Research Scientist - Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence

This job is for Generative AI in visual modality. Candidates with relevant experience only must apply.

The selected candidate is required to perform all the necessary tasks related to data engineering, models selection, use relevant selected libraries/ APIs/ SDKs and creat an Avatar that is visually realistic, with realistic expressions, correct lip synching, and is computationally optimal to run in real time.

The candidate is required to do the necessary designer's tests and documentation as well.

Company: Optimum Solutions

About the company: Optimum solutions is a leader in a sheet metal industry, provides sheet metal solutions to sheet metal fabricators with a proven track record of reliable product delivery. Starting from tools through software, machines, we are one stop shop for all your technology needs.

Role Overview:

• Creating and managing database schemas that represent and support business processes, Hands-on experience in any SQL queries and Database server wrt managing deployment.
• Implementing automated testing platforms, unit tests, and CICD Pipeline
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as GitHub, Bitbucket, ADO
• Understanding of container platform, such as Docker

Job Description

• We are looking for a good Python Developer with Knowledge of Machine learning and deep learning framework.
• Your primary focus will be working the Product and Usecase delivery team to do various prompting for different Gen-AI use cases
• You will be responsible for prompting and building use case Pipelines
• Perform the Evaluation of all the Gen-AI features and Usecase pipeline

Position: AI ML Engineer

Location: Chennai (Preference) and Bangalore

Minimum Qualification:  Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.

Experience:  4-6 years

CTC: 16.5 - 17 LPA

Employment Type:  Full Time

Key Responsibilities:

• Take care of entire prompt life cycle like prompt design, prompt template creation, prompt tuning/optimization for various Gen-AI base models
• Design and develop prompts suiting project needs
• Lead and manage team of prompt engineers
• Stakeholder management across business and domains as required for the projects
• Evaluating base models and benchmarking performance
• Implement prompt gaurdrails to prevent attacks like prompt injection, jail braking and prompt leaking
•  Develop, deploy and maintain auto prompt solutions
• Design and implement minimum design standards for every use case involving prompt engineering

Skills and Qualifications

• Strong proficiency with Python, DJANGO framework and REGEX
• Good understanding of Machine learning framework Pytorch and Tensorflow
• Knowledge of Generative AI and RAG Pipeline
• Good in microservice design pattern and developing scalable application.
• Ability to build and consume REST API
• Fine tune and perform code optimization for better performance.
• Strong understanding on OOP and design thinking
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance, user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of APIs, multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Good knowledge in API Gateways and proxies, such as WSO2, KONG, nginx, Apache HTTP Server.
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable and distributed application
• Good working knowledge on Microservices architecture, behaviour, dependencies, scalability etc.
• Experience in deploying on Cloud platform like Azure or AWS
• Familiar and working experience with DevOps tools like Azure DEVOPS, Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform

For a startup run by a serial founder:

Job Description :

- Architect and develop our B2B platform, focusing on delivering an exceptional user experience.

- Recruit and mentor an engineering team to build scalable and reliable technology solutions.

- Work in tandem with co-founders to ensure technology strategies are well-aligned with business objectives.

- Manage technical architecture to guarantee performance, scalability, and adaptability for future needs.

- Drive innovation by adopting advanced technologies into our product development cycle.

- Promote a culture of technical excellence and collaborative spirit within the engineering team.

Qualifications :

- Over 8 years of experience in technology team management roles, with a proven track record in software development and system architecture + Dev Ops

- Entrepreneurial mindset with a strong interest in building and scaling innovative products.

- Exceptional leadership abilities with experience in team building and mentorship.

- Strategic thinker with a history of delivering effective technology solutions.

Skills :

- Expertise in modern programming languages and application frameworks.

- Deep knowledge of cloud platforms, databases, and system design principles.

- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

- Strong communication skills with the ability to lead cross-functional teams effectively.

• Your responsibilities:
• Build, improve and extend NLP capabilities
• Research and evaluate different approaches to NLP problems
• Must be able to write code that is well designed, produce deliverable results
• Write code that scales and can be deployed to production

• Fundamentals of statistical methods is a must
• Experience in named entity recognition, POS Tagging, Lemmatization, vector representations of textual data and neural networks - RNN, LSTM
• A solid foundation in Python, data structures, algorithms, and general software development skills.
• Ability to apply machine learning to problems that deal with language
• Engineering ability to build robustly scalable pipelines
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team with a strong product focus

We are establishing infrastructure for internal and external reporting using Tableau and are looking for someone with experience building visualizations and dashboards in Tableau and using Tableau Server to deliver them to internal and external users. 

Required Experience 

• Implementation of interactive visualizations using Tableau Desktop  
• Integration with Tableau Server and support of production dashboards and embedded reports with it 

• Writing and optimization of SQL queries  
• Proficient in Python including the use of Pandas and numpy libraries to perform data exploration and analysis 
• 3  years of experience working as a Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer 
• Bachelors in Engineering – can be Electronic and comm , Computer , IT  
• Well versed with Basic Data Structures Algorithms and system design 

• Should be capable of working well in a team – and should possess very good communication skills 
• Self-motivated and fun to work with and organized 
• Productive and efficient working remotely 
• Test driven mindset with a knack for finding issues and problems at earlier stages of development 
• Interest in learning and picking up a wide range of cutting edge technologies 

• Should be curious and interested in learning some Data science related concepts and domain knowledge 
• Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices 

Highly Desirable 

• Data Analytics 

• Experience in AWS cloud or any cloud technologies 
• Experience in BigData technologies and streaming like – pyspark, kafka is a big plus 
• Shell scripting  
• Preferred tech stack – Python, Rest API, Microservices, Flask/Fast API, pandas, numpy, linux, shell scripting, Airflow, pyspark 
• Has a strong backend experience – and worked with Microservices and Rest API’s - Flask, FastAPI, Databases Relational and Non-relational 

About Us

upGrad is an online education platform building the careers of tomorrow by offering the most industry-relevant programs in an immersive learning experience. Our mission is to create a new digital-first learning experience to deliver tangible career impact to individuals at scale. upGrad currently offers programs in Data Science, Machine Learning, Product Management, Digital Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, etc. upGrad is looking for people passionate about management and education to help design learning programs for working professionals to stay sharp and stay relevant and help build the careers of tomorrow.

• upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19

• upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most sought-

  after startups in India

• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India

  by FastCompany.

• We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech

• upGrad is the official education partner for Government of India - Startup India

  program

• Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

   

  Role Summary

  Are you excited by the challenge and the opportunity of applying data-science and data- analytics techniques to the fast developing education technology domain? Do you look forward to, the sense of ownership and achievement that comes with innovating and creating data products from scratch and pushing it live into Production systems? Do you want to work with a team of highly motivated members who are on a mission to empower individuals through education?
  If this is you, come join us and become a part of the upGrad technology team. At upGrad the technology team enables all the facets of the business - whether it’s bringing efficiency to ourmarketing and sales initiatives, to enhancing our student learning experience, to empowering our content, delivery and student success teams, to aiding our student’s for their desired careeroutcomes. We play the part of bringing together data & tech to solve these business problems and opportunities at hand.
  We are looking for an highly skilled, experienced and passionate data-scientist who can come on-board and help create the next generation of data-powered education tech product. The ideal candidate would be someone who has worked in a Data Science role before wherein he/she is comfortable working with unknowns, evaluating the data and the feasibility of applying scientific techniques to business problems and products, and have a track record of developing and deploying data-science models into live applications. Someone with a strong math, stats, data-science background, comfortable handling data (structured+unstructured) as well as strong engineering know-how to implement/support such data products in Production environment.
  Ours is a highly iterative and fast-paced environment, hence being flexible, communicating well and attention-to-detail are very important too. The ideal candidate should be passionate about the customer impact and comfortable working with multiple stakeholders across the company.

  
  Roles & Responsibilities

  • • 3+ years of experience in analytics, data science, machine learning or comparable role
    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science/Data Analytics, Math/Statistics or related discipline 
    • Experience in building and deploying Machine Learning models in Production systems
    • Strong analytical skills: ability to make sense out of a variety of data and its relation/applicability to the business problem or opportunity at hand
    • Strong programming skills: comfortable with Python - pandas, numpy, scipy, matplotlib; Databases - SQL and noSQL
    • Strong communication skills: ability to both formulate/understand the business problem at hand as well as ability to discuss with non data-science background stakeholders 
    • Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives

     

    Skills Required

    • Experience in Text Analytics, Natural Language Processing

    • Advanced degree in Data Science/Data Analytics or Math/Statistics

    • Comfortable with data-visualization tools and techniques

    • Knowledge of AWS and Data Warehousing

    • Passion for building data-products for Production systems - a strong desire to impact

      the product through data-science technique