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Data Scientist/ Generative AI Specialist
Zillion Technologies, Inc.
McLean · On-site Contract Senior $115 – $120/hr 3w ago
About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and implement scalable AI Agents, Agentic Workflows and GenAI applications to address diverse and complex business use cases.
- Develop, fine-tune, and optimize lightweight LLMs; lead the evaluation and adaptation of models such as Claude (Anthropic), Azure OpenAI, and open-source alternatives.
- Design and deploy Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Graph RAG systems using vector databases and knowledge bases.
- Curate enterprise data using connectors integrated with AWS Bedrock's Knowledge Base/Elastic.
- Implement solutions leveraging MCP (Model Context Protocol) and A2A (Agent-to-Agent) communication.
- Build and maintain Jupyter-based notebooks using platforms like SageMaker and MLFlow/Kubeflow on Kubernetes (EKS).
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams of UI and microservice engineers, designers, and data engineers to build full-stack Gen AI experiences.
- Integrate GenAI solutions with enterprise platforms via API-based methods and GenAI standardized patterns.
- Establish and enforce validation procedures with Evaluation Frameworks, bias mitigation, safety protocols, and guardrails for production-ready deployment.
- Design & build robust ingestion pipelines that extract, chunk, enrich, and anonymize data from PDFs, video, and audio sources for use in LLM-powered workflows—leveraging best practices like semantic chunking and privacy controls.
- Orchestrate multimodal pipelines using scalable frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, PySpark) for automated ETL/ELT workflows appropriate for unstructured media.
- Implement embeddings drives—map media content to vector representations using embedding models, and integrate with vector stores (AWS Bedrock Knowledge Base/Elastic/Mongo Atlas) to support RAG architectures.
Required Qualifications
- PhD in AI/Data Science.
- 10+ years of experience in AI/ML, with 3+ years in applied GenAI or LLM-based solutions.
- Deep expertise in prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG, GraphRAG, vector databases (e.g., AWS Bedrock Knowledge Base / Elastic), and multi-modal models.
- Proven experience with cloud-native AI development (AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, MLFlow on EKS).
- Strong programming skills in Python and ML libraries (Transformers, LangChain, etc.).
- Deep understanding of Gen AI system patterns and architectural best practices, Evaluation Frameworks.
- Demonstrated ability to work in cross-functional agile teams
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
Skills
AWS BedrockElasticJupyterKubernetesLangChainMLFlowPythonPySparkSageMakerTransformers
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