Senior Data Scientist, Generative AI & LLM Engineering
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.
Cognizant currently has 330 open roles on FindRole.
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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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