Staff Data Scientist R&D

What You’ll Do 

• Build and fine-tune SLMs/LLMs for production use cases such as semantic search, forecasting, contract intelligence, and conversational insights. Optimize models for performance, cost, and latency using PEFT, quantization, and efficient inference techniques 

• Embed supply chain knowledge into models by working closely with domain experts and product teams 

• Enable agentic workflows, allowing AI Assistants to execute planning, optimization, and decision-support tasks 

• Integrate models into products using custom Lambdas, and a Graph-based microservices architecture  

• Apply vector search and semantic reasoning to help customers navigate complex supply chain relationships 

• Work with real enterprise data—ERP, logistics, inventory, supplier, and contract datasets 

• Deploy and operate models using strong MLOps practices on platforms like AWS, GCP or AZURE 

• Measure and improve quality, reducing hallucinations and improving reliability through continuous evaluation 
• Partner with engineering, product, and operations teams to ship impactful AI features end-to-end 

What We’re Looking For 

• Experience working with SLMs (Mistral, Phi, Nemotron, Llama variants), applying parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA/QLoRA) to optimize task-specific natural language query answering with high accuracy and minimized hallucinations. 

• Strong understanding of supply chain data and workflows (logistics, inventory, procurement, ERP systems) 

• Familiarity with Knowledge Graphs and graph-based data modeling, including designing and querying Neo4j graphs for relationship-driven insights. 

• Solid hands-on skills in Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow, GraphQL, and vector databases 

• 8+ years of experience in forecasting, optimization, supply chain analytics, or AI-driven products 

• Experience designing Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines using document chunking, metadata filtering, hybrid (dense + sparse) retrieval, and SLM/LLM grounding for enterprise knowledge search. 

• Hands-on experience building and tuning FAISS-based vector indexes (IVF, HNSW, PQ) for large-scale semantic similarity search with low-latency production deployment 

• Experience taking models from prototype to production 

• Bonus: reinforcement learning, MARL, graph neural networks, or probabilistic modeling 

• Clear communication skills and a strong sense of product ownership