Job Title: Lead Specialist AI Scientist
Location: Durham, NC
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Employment Type: [Contract, CTH]
Contract Duration: 6-12+ months
Role Descriptions:
Drive the future of AI Transformation at Client as part of AgentOps. Inspire innovation. Empower learning.Client| the worlds leading learning company| is hiring a Lead Specialist| AI Scientist for our Office of Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) to set the technical direction for model training and adaptation in the AgentOps team at Client.
Essential Skills:
A hands-on scientist and builder who has trained models| not only called them.
A technical leader who sets direction and standards through credibility rather than authority.
A pragmatic experimenter who knows when a result is strong enough to ship and when it isnt. A generous mentor who makes the people around them measurably better.
A collaborator who translates model behavior into decisions that business stakeholders can act on.
Required Skills
Demonstrated hands-on experience post-training and fine-tuning foundation models
supervised fine-tuning| parameter-efficient methods such as LoRA or QLoRA| preference optimization such as RLHF or DPO| or distillation.
Strong Python and deep learning framework skills| including distributed or multi-GPU training.
Rigor in data curation| experiment design| and evaluation you can show| with evidence| that a model got better.
Depth in one or more AI/ML areas| plus the breadth to make architecture and tooling decisions for a team.
Experience with public cloud platforms and their AI-related services| and with taking models into production.
A track record of setting technical standards and mentoring other engineers or scientists.
Clear communication with senior and non-technical audiences| including trade-offs| cost| and risk.
Understanding of how AI/ML applies to educational content| assessment| and personalized learning.
Work Authorization
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. subject to company policy and applicable immigration requirements.
Equal Employment Opportunity
[Themesoft Inc] is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Thanks & Regards,
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Rupesh Mourya