GenAI Science Director / Senior Principal Scientist

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You Are:
An AI practitioner, capable of hands-on development of Large Language Models as well as the ability to lead one or more delivery teams as required, in support of our Data and AI Practice.  

Demonstrated Capabilities: 

• Ability to build and execute fine-tuning pipelines for LLMs on target datasets.
• Capable of customizing LLMs for problem sets containing large amounts of data. 
• Ability to design complex LLM workflows applicable to client-relevant use cases. 
• Expertly incorporate and optimize prompts to enhance LLM outputs.
• Design and optimize RAG workflows.  
• Design complex guardrail workflows that can be incorporated into LLM pipelines 
• Ability to evaluate state of the art tooling and incorporate into LLM pipeline designs.   
• Ability to converse in LLM design, solutioning, and lead trainings to technical peers.
• Experience characterizing LLM vulnerabilities, robustness, and performance.
• Experience mitigating LLM hallucinations, unwanted biases, low-quality, and poisoned data    

Role Description / Expectations: 

• The GenAI Senior Engineer leads in conceptualization, design, and building of tuned LLM capabilities as well as engineering leveraged capabilities derived from LLMs.    
• Assists in developing programmed language capabilities, statistical analysis, NLP techniques.  
• Develops novel LLM pipelines optimized for complex client use cases.
• Implements optimal models, prompts, tools, and infrastructure components weighed against use case demands.
• Carefully applies responsible AI methodologies and practices to reduce unwanted bias, ensure trustworthy application of LLMs, and mitigate risks.
• Contributes to enterprise-wide understanding of LLM guardrails based on emerging research and observations from open source and commercial models.    
• Develops and incorporates novel optimizations to enhance LLM performance for applied use cases.
• Selectively applies LLM outputs to complex use cases.
• Expertly incorporates data retrieva