sCytech - Artificial Intelligence Research Scientist - Time Series Forecasting

Job Title : AI Engineer

Location : Pune, India (On-site)

Type : Full-Time

Our client is building Last Mile 2.0 , redefining urban logistics in India. With proven MVP and are now scaling from pilot to national roll-out, looking for a AI Engineer to design, build, and scale the systems that will power thousands of riders across India.

Role Overview :

Key Responsibilities :

- Integrate model outputs into our real-time decision engine (Python APIs, Redis, AWS).

- Work with simulation data to create training/evaluation sets.

- Optimize for inference speed (ONNX/TorchScript, quantization).

- Collaborate with the founders to shape model roadmap and metrics.

What Were Looking For :

- Experience with time-series models and data (any of : traffic, mobility, maps, forecasting).

- Understanding of geospatial frameworks.

- Comfort with data engineering basics (pipelines, ETL, SQL/NoSQL).

- Ability to ship fast, debug, and optimize models for real-time serving.

Nice to have :

- Background in last-mile logistics, ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, or mobility data.

- Exposure to reinforcement learning or simulation-driven training.

Why join us ?

- Competitive salary + meaningful equity.

- Opportunity to work on a hard real-world problem where ML decisions directly affect efficiency.