EXL

Senior Data Scientist

EXL Karnataka, India

Business Consulting and Services · 10,001+ employees

7 h ago
data-scientist Senior (5-10 yrs) Full-time India
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About the role

The Senior Data Scientist will lead data analysis projects, design complex machine learning models, and provide strategic insights to business leaders. Responsibilities also include mentoring junior team members and ensuring the overall quality of analytical deliverables.

What they look for

Python Machine Learning Natural Language Processing Large Language Models RAG SQL Spark NumPy Pandas Scikit-learn Deep Learning Artificial Neural Networks Azure AWS Databricks Text Analytics

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Bachelor's or Master's degree in a quantitative field and possess 5-9 years of relevant experience in data science and ML. Proficiency in Python, NLP, RAG pipelines, and cloud platforms like AWS or Azure is required.

Full description

Required Skills and Experience:

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in a quantitative field (CS, machine learning, mathematics, statistics) or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of experience in data science, building hands-on ML models.
  • Candidate must be aware of entire evolution history of NLP (Traditional Language Models to Modern Large Language Models), training data creation, training set-up and finetuning
  • Knowledge of advanced RAG pipelines with proper embeddings, indexing, chunking, reranking, prompts and evaluation
  • Excellent programming skills in Python. Strong working knowledge of Pythons numerical, data analysis, or AI frameworks such as NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Jupyter, etc
  • SQL skills with SQL Server and Spark experience is preferred but not necessary.
  • Knowledge of predictive/prescriptive analytics including Machine Learning algorithms (Supervised and Unsupervised) and deep learning algorithms and Artificial Neural Networks
  • Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLTK) and text analytics for information extraction, parsing and topic modeling.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication. Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills. Thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, Databricks is preferred

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