Description :

Role : Staff AI Data Scientist

Location : Hyderabad(preferred) /Bangalore /Pune - Hybrid

Exp : 6+yrs experience

Product background with top institute education will be preferred

What You'll Do : Shape the Way the World Understands Data

We are seeking a Staff AI Data Scientist to provide technical leadership and strategic direction for training and fine-tuning language models across Teradatas AI platform. This role goes beyond individual execution you will define best practices, influence architecture decisions, and mentor senior engineers, while still remaining hands-on with critical model training efforts.

You will :

- Define and lead the LLM/SLM training strategy, including model selection, data strategy, and alignment approaches.

- Architect scalable and reusable training and evaluation pipelines for instruction tuning, preference optimization, and synthetic data workflows.

- Establish evaluation standards and benchmarks for model quality, hallucination reduction, safety, and reliability across teams.

- Drive adoption of efficient fine-tuning and inference optimization techniques (PEFT, quantization, distillation) at platform scale.

- Partner with platform and infrastructure teams to influence training and serving architecture, GPU utilization, and cost efficiency.

- Mentor senior and mid-level data scientists and engineers; raise the overall bar for model quality and engineering rigor.

- Act as a technical advisor to product and leadership on LLM capabilities, limitations, and trade-offs.

- Track cutting-edge research and proactively translate it into practical, enterprise-ready solutions.

Who You'll Work With : Join Forces with the Best :

- Youll collaborate with a world-class team of AI architects, ML engineers, and domain experts at Silicon Valley, working together to build the next generation of enterprise AI systems.

- Youll also work cross-functionally with :

- Product managers and UX designers to craft agentic workflows that are intuitive and impactful.

- Domain specialists to ensure solutions align with real-world business problems in regulated industries.

Who You'll Work With : Join Forces with the Best

- Collaborate with a talented team of AI architects, ML engineers, and domain experts in Silicon Valley, all working together to advance the future of enterprise AI.

- Work closely with infrastructure teams to scale AI workloads globally.

- This is a rare opportunity to shape cutting-edge AI capabilities within a dynamic, data-driven company, where innovation thrives, and your ideas help define the next generation of data interaction.

Your Qualifications and Qualities

Required :

- B.S./M.S./Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, or a related technical field.

- Deep expertise in PyTorch, Transformers, and LLM training workflows.

- Proven experience designing end-to-end model training and evaluation systems.

- Strong ability to influence technical decisions across teams.

Preferred :

- 6+ years of experience in ML / NLP, including LLM/SLM training at scale.

- Deep hands-on experience with SFT, DPO/RL-based alignment, and PEFT methods.

- Hands-on experience with fine-tuning methods, including full parameter updates and PEFT (LoRA/QLoRA).

- Experience with distributed training and inference at scale.

- Track record of technical leadership, mentorship, or cross-team impact.