Data Scientist

Ford Motor CompanyChennai, Tamil NaduHybridFull-timeJunior, 1–2 yearsListed 4 hours ago

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About this role

ML/DL Skills :

- High familiarity in the use of DL theory/practices in NLP applications

- Comfort level to code in ADK, A2A, AgentSkills, Ontology, Huggingface, LangGraph, LangChain, Chainlit, Tensorflow and/or Pytorch, Scikit-learn, Numpy and Pandas

- Comfort level to use two/more of open source NLP modules like SpaCy, TorchText, fastai.text, farm-haystack, and others

NLP Skills :

- Knowledge in fundamental text data processing (like use of regex, token/word analysis, spelling correction/noise reduction in text, segmenting noisy unfamiliar sentences/phrases at right places, deriving insights from clustering, etc.,)

- Have implemented in real-world BERT/or other transformer fine-tuned models (Seq classification, NER or QA) from data preparation, model creation and inference till deployment

Python Project Management Skills

- Familiarity in the use of Docker tools, pipenv/conda/poetry env

- Comfort level in following Python project management best practices (use of setup.py, logging, pytests, relative module imports,sphinx docs,etc.,)

- Familiarity in use of Github (clone, fetch, pull/push,raising issues and PR, etc.,)

Cloud Skills and Computing :

- Use of GCP services like BigQuery, Cloud function, Cloud run, Cloud Build, VertexAI,

- Good working knowledge on other open source packages to benchmark and derive summary

- Experience in using GPU/CPU of cloud and on-prem infrastructures

- Skillset to leverage cloud platform for Data Engineering, Big Data and ML needs.

Deployment Skills :

- Use of Dockers (experience in experimental docker features, docker-compose, etc.,)

- Familiarity with orchestration tools such as airflow, Kubeflow

- Experience in CI/CD, infrastructure as code tools like terraform etc.

- Kubernetes or any other containerization tool with experience in Helm, Argoworkflow, etc.,

- Ability to develop APIs with compliance, ethical, secure and safe AI tools.

UI :

- Good UI skills to visualize and build better applications using Gradio, Dash, Streamlit, React, Django, etc.,

- Deeper understanding of javascript, css, angular, html, etc., is a plus.

Data Engineering:

- Skillsets to perform distributed computing (specifically parallelism and scalability in Data Processing, Modeling and Inferencing through Spark, Dask, RapidsAI or RapidscuDF)

- Ability to build python-based APIs (e.g.: use of FastAPIs/ Flask/ Django for APIs)

- Experience in Elastic Search and Apache Solr is a plus, vector databases.

Education : Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Maths or Science

Performed any modern NLP/LLM courses/open competitions is also welcomed. Strong communication skills and do excellent teamwork through Git/slack/email/call with multiple team members across geographies.

- Experience in LLM models like GPT5, Gemini, Kimi, Seedance (open-source models),
- Work through the complete lifecycle of Gen AI model development, from training and testing to deployment and performance monitoring.
- Developing and maintaining AI pipelines with multimodalities like text, image, audio etc.
- Have implemented in real-world Chat bots or conversational agents at scale handling different data sources.
- Experience in developing Image generation/translation tools using any of the latent diffusion models like stable diffusion, Instruct pix2pix.
- Expertise in handling large scale structured and unstructured data.
- Efficiently handled large-scale generative AI datasets and outputs.