Lead Data Scientist - Generative AI and LLM & SLM Development

As a Lead/Principal Data Scientist at MakeMyTrip, you will play a crucial role in reimagining travel decisions with the power of AI. MakeMyTrip is an AI/ML/Data/Platform powered organization that is shaping the future of travel for Bharat customers through GenAI-centric innovations. Leveraging SLMs, Vernacular STT/TTS, and travel content systems, we are committed to taking our systems, chatbots, Cx, and content to the next orbit of excellence. Your responsibilities will include designing, developing, and fine-tuning multilingual Small Language Models (SLMs) with advanced AI capabilities for various agentic applications related to travel. You will build custom Natural Language Inference (NLI) and reward-scoring models to enhance multi-agent response quality and relevance. Additionally, you will develop and implement active learning pipelines for NLP, Named Entity Recognition (NER), conversational latent intent/concepts, travel-specific embeddings, and domain-specific SLM training. As a Lead Data Scientist, you will architect and enhance conversational AI systems, drive quality assurance through robust integration and experience testing, and mentor engineering teams in advanced SLM and Generative AI analytics. Collaboration across teams to deliver scalable solutions aligned with business goals will be a key aspect of your role. You will focus on hosting and deploying Generative AI models on efficient infrastructure to support large-scale operations. The ideal candidate for this role will have deep experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP & NLI), conversational NLP systems, SLM adaptor fine-tuning, SFT training, SLM pruning, and retriever frameworks in Q&A bots. Experience in contrastive learning, graph learning-based embedding methods, and NLP active learning pipelines will be beneficial. Demonstrable experience in scaling models to large-scale search systems is a plus. Critical reasoning skills, data-centric NLP/NLI systems, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment are essential qualities we are looking for. Join us at MakeMyTrip to be part of a team that is revolutionizing the travel industry with cutting-edge AI and Generative AI technologies. This is an opportunity to impact millions of users worldwide and contribute to the future of travel.,