Data Scientist LLM

Immediate need for a talented Data Scientist LLM. This is a 06+months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Pleasanton, CA (Remote; CA, OR, WA, GA, CO, MD, VA). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID:24-37954

Pay Range: $70 - $75/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop LLMs for specific use cases, including but not limited to text generation, summarization, and conversational agents.
• Prompt engineer pre-trained LLMs on domain-specific data to optimize performance for target applications.
• Develop RAG based applications.
• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product teams to integrate LLM capabilities into existing systems and platforms.
• Optimize model performance in terms of accuracy, speed, and resource utilization.
• Ensure the ethical use of AI models and implement fairness, accountability, and transparency measures.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Key Skills :Data Science, LLM, BERT, RAG, GenAI.
• Strong grasp of NLP concepts such as tokenization, embeddings, attention mechanisms, and sequence modeling.
• Experience in handling domain adaptation, multi-task learning, and transfer learning.
• Experience with popular deep learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch).
• Proven track record of promt engineering, RAG system development and fine-tuning large pre-trained models (e.g., GPT, BERT, T5, etc.).
• Strong programming skills in Python; familiarity with other languages is a plus.
• Extensive experience with TensorFlow, Pytorch, Keras, Theano libraries
• Deep understanding of neural network architectures, especially transformer models.
• Experience with large-scale model training on GPUs.
• Familiarity with model compression techniques (e.g., quantization, distillation).
• Experience with containerization tools (Docker)
• Knowledge of MLOps practices, including model versioning, monitoring, and A/B testing
• Experience in developing and deploying APIs for model inference, using frameworks like, Flask, Django, FastAPI
• Proficiency in data visualization tools (Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly) for analyzing data and also model performance and interpreting results
• Strong experience with version control systems (e.g. Git) and collaborative coding platforms (e.g. Github, GitLab).

Our client is a leading Healthcare Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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