Data Scientist, ML / GenAI / LLM

Cognizant

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Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.

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TL;DR · Data Scientist, ML / GenAI / LLM

The Data Scientist – ML / GenAI / LLM will join the team to design, develop, and implement advanced machine learning and data science solutions for complex business problems. The role involves building, training, and optimizing models using structured and unstructured data, with a specific focus on developing generative AI and large language model applications. Key responsibilities include implementing retrieval-augmented generation, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and model evaluation for enterprise use cases like conversational AI and information extraction. The candidate will use Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, and Hugging Face to build production-grade pipelines. Required expertise includes MLOps, transformer architectures, and cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP. The role solves technical problems regarding scalability, reliability, and performance for enterprise-grade AI applications.

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What you'll do

  • Design and implement advanced machine learning solutions to solve complex business problems.
  • Build, train, and optimize ML models using both structured and unstructured data.
  • Develop Generative AI applications including conversational AI, summarization, and information extraction.
  • Implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions using enterprise data sources.
  • Build robust data and ML pipelines for model training, inference, and production deployment.
  • Apply MLOps principles to ensure AI applications are scalable, reliable, and production-ready.
  • Implement LLM evaluation and monitoring approaches to ensure accuracy and performance.
  • Develop solutions using Python and frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Hugging Face.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 10+ years of experience.
  • Strong hands-on experience in Data Science and Machine Learning.
  • Strong programming skills in Python.
  • Experience developing and productionizing ML models and ML pipelines.
  • Hands-on experience with Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs).
  • Experience with prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, vector search/vector databases, and LLM evaluation.
  • Experience with ML/AI frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Hugging Face, or similar technologies.
  • Working knowledge of MLOps, model deployment, monitoring, versioning, and CI/CD concepts.
  • Experience with cloud-based data and AI platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Experience with LLM orchestration/frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar tools (preferred).
  • Knowledge of AI agents / Agentic AI and tool-calling architectures (preferred).
  • Familiarity with LLM guardrails, responsible AI, security, and governance considerations (preferred).
  • Experience optimizing GenAI solutions for latency, scalability, reliability, and cost (preferred).

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