Data Scientist - LLM Engineering

Primary Role Title : Senior LLM Engineer.

About The Opportunity :

We are a fast-growing enterprise AI & data science consultancy serving global clients across finance, healthcare, and enterprise software.

The team builds production-grade LLM-driven productsRAG systems, intelligent assistants, and custom inference pipelinesthat deliver measurable business outcomes.

Location : India (Hybrid).

Role & Responsibilities :

• Design, fine-tune and productionize large language models (instruction tuning, LoRA / PEFT) using PyTorch and Hugging Face tooling for real-world applications.
• Architect and implement RAG pipelines : embeddings generation, chunking strategies, vector search integration (FAISS / Pinecone / Milvus) and relevance tuning for high-quality retrieval.
• Build scalable inference services and APIs (FastAPI / Falcon), containerize (Docker) and deploy to cloud / Kubernetes with low-latency and cost-optimized inference (quantization, ONNX / Triton).
• Collaborate with data engineers and ML scientists to productionize data pipelines, automate retraining, monitoring, evaluation and drift detection.
• Drive prompt-engineering, evaluation frameworks and safety / guardrail implementation to ensure reliable, explainable LLM behavior in production.
• Establish engineering best-practices (Git workflows, CI / CD, unit tests, observability) and mentor junior engineers to raise team delivery standards.

Skills & Qualifications :

Must-Have :

Preferred :

Benefits & Culture Highlights :

This role is with Zorba Consulting India.

If you are an experienced LLM practitioner who enjoys end-to-end ownershipfrom research experiments to robust production systemsapply with your resume and a short note on a recent LLM project you led (models, infra, and outcomes).

Zorba Consulting India is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.

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