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Director of Data Science

SW5 Consulting
Austin, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 2/20/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/18/2025

Job Description

Job Description

Director of Data Science NLP, LLM, and GenAI

The Opportunity : Step into a pivotal role where your expertise in NLP, deep learning, GenAI, and LLMs will drive significant business value. This is a unique chance to advance your career, lead a talented ML Data Science team, and shape the future of AI-powered capabilities.

Key Responsibilities :

  • Strategy Development : Craft and implement strategies for ML modeling, LLM development, and fine-tuning to enhance model deployment and monitoring efficiency. Develop a comprehensive roadmap for NLP, LLM, and GenAI model development.
  • Model Design and Development : Lead the design and creation of custom ML, GenAI, NLP, and LLM models for AI ML pipelines, ensuring they meet all technical and business requirements.
  • Model Evaluation : Collaborate with the MLOps team to maintain robust evaluation tools, ensuring model performance, accuracy, and reliability. Implement optimizations to improve system efficiency.
  • Model Deployment : Oversee the deployment of machine learning models into production environments, ensuring reliability and scalability.
  • Internal Collaboration : Work closely with product teams, business stakeholders, MLOps, machine learning engineers, and software engineers to integrate machine learning models smoothly into production systems.
  • Stakeholder Engagement : Partner with business and PM stakeholders in roadmap planning and implementation, ensuring alignment with business requirements.
  • Mentorship : Recruit, develop, and mentor AI / ML, NLP, LLM, and GenAI talent, fostering professional growth and development.
  • Documentation : Maintain comprehensive documentation of ML modeling processes for reference and knowledge sharing.
  • Standards and Best Practices : Ensure adherence to standards, governance, and best practices in ML model development.
  • Problem Solving : Troubleshoot complex issues related to machine learning model development and data pipelines, developing innovative solutions.

What Were Looking For :

  • Ph.D. (preferred), Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Computational Linguistics, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 10 years of professional experience with large sets of structured and unstructured data to develop data-driven analytics and insights using ML and NLP.
  • 4 years of hands-on experience with Python, Hugging Face, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, Spark, or similar tools.
  • 5 years of experience developing NLP models, ideally with transformer architectures.
  • Experience with implementing information search and retrieval at scale, using solutions ranging from keyword search to semantic search using embeddings.
  • Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with developing or tuning Large Language Models (LLM) and Generative AI (GenAI).
  • Proven ability to create reports, projections, models, and presentations to support business goals.
  • Independent judgment and decision-making skills on complex technical and business issues.
  • Experience mentoring junior ML scientists.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Strategic thinker with demonstrated technical and business acumen and problem-solving skills.
  • Familiarity with trends in LLMs and open-source platforms.
  • Nice to have : Experience contributing to GitHub and open-source initiatives or research projects.
  • Compensation / Benefits Information (US Applicants Only) :

  • Anticipated base salary range : $180,000 - $225,000, based on geographical location, experience, and qualifications.
  • Eligible for an annual incentive plan.
  • Additional benefits available.
  • Ready to take the next step in your career and lead a dynamic team in the exciting field of AI and ML? Apply now!

    Salary : $180,000 - $225,000

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