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Data Scientist

Aitopics
Boston, MA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/25/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/25/2025

Red Hat

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, including high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies.

Data Scientist, InstructLab - Boston, MA

Company Description

At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.

Job Summary

Red Hat’s Global Engineering team is looking for an experienced data scientist to join the InstructLab team. In this role, you’ll contribute directly to Red Hat’s rapidly growing AI / ML (artificial intelligence and machine learning) family of products. You will be responsible for the investigation, evaluation, integration, and development of open source AI / ML systems and functionality to improve the overall development and operations of both Red Hat's downstream AI products and upstream open source AI projects. Qualified data scientists in this role regularly participate in design reviews and productization for major product features and bug fixes, and are experienced and comfortable working with Linux-based operating systems.

This position reports directly to a Manager of Software Engineering for InstructLab. This position must have the ability to partner collaboratively in our Boston, MA office at least 3 days per week.

Primary Job Responsibilities

  • Develop innovative capabilities for open source platforms used for building, training, testing, and serving models for AI-enabled applications, carrying your work through all phases of software development and delivery, including : researching and conceptualization, team design review, writing the implementation, authoring a testing strategy and necessary automation, productizing and packaging the code, and supporting its deployment through to end-users.
  • Monitor and participate in upstream open source AI / ML communities, evaluating new AI / ML-related technologies in the space and considering potential integrations and collaborations upstream.
  • Regularly reading papers and keeping up with AI / ML developments, particularly in the Generative AI space.
  • Promote and foster Red Hat’s open-source value proposition as it pertains to AI / ML engineering and product infusion and development.
  • Contribute to the development of the open-source projects that comprise Red Hat’s AI family of products.
  • Take part in the shared responsibility of delivering and maintaining assigned products.
  • Regularly communicate with project stakeholders including other teams of Red Hat engineers, product managers, consultants, management, and senior leadership.
  • Take on the role of Subject Matter Expert, as needed, per domain and project.
  • Lead, coach and collaborate with junior engineers as they build AI / ML knowledge and skills.
  • Coordinate and collaborate with external teams, including IBM Research on key strategic vision and implementation details.
  • Share our experiments and learnings from an experienced position in the Data Science community through blogs, presentations, new ideas and existing work at various technical outlets and conferences.
  • Promote upstream acceptance and community building.

Required Skills

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, computer engineering or equivalent.
  • 5 years of experience as a data scientist (or similar roles).
  • Extensive, advanced experience with Python development.
  • Experience with AI and Machine Learning platforms, tools, and frameworks, such as : Tensorflow, PyTorch, LLaMA.cpp, and Kubeflow.
  • Experience working with Kubernetes / OpenShift and containers, troubleshooting issues, and working with YAML.
  • Experience with Cloud Native Technologies and Platforms (e.g. Kubernetes).
  • Demonstrates knowledge of unit testing frameworks and methodologies.
  • Demonstrates knowledge of machine learning relevant mathematics and statistics.
  • Strong self-motivation and organizational skills.
  • Demonstrates ability to context switch between multiple concurrent projects.
  • Excellent English written and verbal communication skills.
  • Collaborative attitude and willingness to share ideas openly.
  • Ability to quickly learn and use new tools and technologies.
  • Nice to Haves

  • Familiarity with participating in an agile development team.
  • Experience writing Kubernetes controllers and operators.
  • Experience with big data storage techniques, such as Parquet, Avro, and S3.
  • Experience with hardware accelerators, such as GPU, CUDA, and ROCm.
  • Understanding of DevOps methodology.
  • About Red Hat

    Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40 countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.

    Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Red Hat

    If your skills, experience, and qualifications match those in this job overview, do not delay your application.

    Red Hat’s culture is built on the open source principles of transparency, collaboration, and inclusion, where the best ideas can come from anywhere and anyone. When this is realized, it empowers people from diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences to come together to share ideas, challenge the status quo, and drive innovation. Our aspiration is that everyone experiences this culture with equal opportunity and access, and that all voices are not only heard but also celebrated. We hope you will join our celebration, and we welcome and encourage applicants from all the beautiful dimensions of diversity that compose our global village.

    Equal Opportunity Policy (EEO)

    Red Hat is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We review applications for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

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