Principal Data Scientist

About the job

The Digital workforce team is part of Red Hats Data and AI organization. The team is focused on building and delivering strategic AI agents designed to augment human capabilities, accelerate workflows, and scale operations across the enterprise.

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Data Scientist to lead our initiatives in natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, and data analytics. The ideal candidate will be passionate about creating and developing applications, particularly within the language sector, and have excellent analytical and machine learning knowledge. The focus of the role will be to transform natural language data and requests into creative and interactive features part of our finance & operations business.

In this role, you will be the voice of Red Hat's technical authority, creating and delivering features/ capabilities that helps Red Hats data community and in turn our customers achieve their business and technical goals with Red Hat products effectively.

What will you do?

• Lead the research and implementation of advanced algorithms and tools for NLP/GenAI tasks.
• Drive the development of next-generation AI/ML applications in a highly collaborative environment.
• Oversee the design, implementation, and delivery of AI solutions.
• Ensure the successful training and evaluation of NLP models, refining them based on statistical analysis.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including finance, operations, sales, and marketing, to understand and meet business needs.

What will you bring?

• 7+ years of professional experience in NLP, with a strong command of Python and frameworks such as Spacy and Hugging Face.
• Proven expertise in designing and delivering NLP applications across all stages of the data science lifecycle.
• Deep understanding of machine learning frameworks and experience in Generative AI application development.
• Working knowledge of TensorFlow, TensorFlow Serving, Keras, PyTorch.
• Comfortable working with a small team in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment
• Experience with GenAI application development - LLMs, Embedding models, Vector Databases
• Keep up to date in the rapidly changing field of AI/ML by constantly researching and learning new techniques and information related to NLP.
• Bachelors degree or above in Computer Science, Math, Computational Linguistics, or other related fields. Demonstrated experience as an NLP, or experience in a similar role/industry
• Experience developing highly scalable backend microservices in AWS