Sr Data Scientist GenAI at Select Minds LLC in TX-Dallas-75235 Temporarily Remote - US

Responsibilities

• - Design, build, fine-tune, and deploy LLMs, transformer-based NLP models, and GenAI solutions for both batch and real-time/streaming contexts.
• - Own all major components of ML pipelines: data ingestion, cleaning, pre-processing (structured & unstructured), embedding, search & retrieval, prompt engineering, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation).
• - Collaborate closely with ML Engineers, MLOps, software engineering, product, compliance, legal etc., to move models from prototype to production—ensuring reliability, scalability, monitoring, and maintainability.
• - Define and implement evaluation frameworks: accuracy, bias, fairness, hallucination, consistency, latency; run UAT, stress-tests, drift detection.
• - Optimize models and pipelines for performance, cost, and efficiency.
• - Ensure best practices in model development: version control, repeatability, documentation, governance, and ethical AI use.
• - Mentor more junior data scientists; help build team skills in NLP, GenAI practices, prompt engineering, fine-tuning.
• - Identify new use cases; prototype innovations in GenAI/NLP; keep up with latest research and open source developments, decide what to adopt.

Requirements

• - 10+ years of experience in data science / ML, with substantial work in NLP, LLMs, or Generative AI.
• - Deep hands-on experience in Python, using frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, HuggingFace etc.
• - Proven track record building transformer/NLP / LLM models; experience with fine-tuning, prompt engineering.
• - Solid experience with information retrieval / search: keyword + semantic search, embeddings, vector databases.
• - Experience working in production / deploying models (batch and streaming), working with MLOps practices.
• - Strong algorithmic / statistical / mathematical fundamentals. Ability to reason about model behaviour, bias, uncertainty.
• - Good communicator: able to translate complex technical detail to business / non-technical stakeholders.
• - Master's in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Statistics, Machine Learning or related field.
• - Experience with multimodal models (vision + text) or emerging LLMs and agent-based systems.
• - Experience with open source LLMs & toolkits; familiarity with LangChain or similar frameworks.
• - Prior experience in regulated environments (finance, risk, legal, compliance) with strong governance, privacy requirements.

Skills

Required

• Python
• PyTorch
• TensorFlow
• HuggingFace
• NLP
• LLMs
• Generative AI
• Fine-tuning
• Prompt engineering
• Information retrieval
• Semantic search
• Embeddings

Preferred

• Multimodal models
• Agent-based systems
• Open source LLMs
• LangChain
• Regulated environments
• Governance
• Privacy

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Flexible schedule
• Opportunity for advancement
• Compensation: $150,000.00 - $210,000.00 per year