Senior Engineer - Large Language Model Engineer

ZS is a place where passion changes lives. As a management consulting and technology firm focused on improving life and how we live it, our most valuable asset is our people. Here you’ll work side-by-side with a powerful collective of thinkers and experts shaping life-changing solutions for patients, caregivers and consumers, worldwide. ZSers drive impact by bringing a client first mentality to each and every engagement. We partner collaboratively with our clients to develop custom solutions and technology products that create value and deliver company results across critical areas of their business. Bring your curiosity for learning; bold ideas; courage and passion to drive life-changing impact to ZS.

Our most valuable asset is our people .

At ZS we honor the visible and invisible elements of our identities, personal experiences and belief systems—the ones that comprise us as individuals, shape who we are and

make us unique. We believe your personal interests, identities, and desire to learn are part of your success here. about our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and the networks ZS supports to assist our ZSers in cultivating community spaces, obtaining the resources they need to thrive, and sharing the messages they are passionate about.

ZS’s India Capability & Expertise Center (CEC) houses more than 60% of ZS people across three offices in New Delhi, Pune and Bengaluru. Our teams work with colleagues across North America, Europe and East Asia to create and deliver real world solutions to the clients who drive our business. The CEC maintains standards of analytical, operational and technological excellence across our capability groups. Together, our collective knowledge enables each ZS team to deliver superior results to our clients.

ZS's Scaled AI practice is part of ZS's rich and advanced AI ecosystem, in the Associate Consultant role, focused on creating continuous business value for clients using a range of innovative machine learning, deep learning, and engineering capabilities.

Being part of Scaled AI practice allows you to collaborate with data scientists to create state-of-the-art AI models, create and use cutting-edge ML platforms, create and deploy advanced ML pipelines and manage the complete ML lifecycle.

What You’ll Do

• Experience in creating GenAI applications such as answering engines, extraction components, and content authoring.
• Strong knowledge in developing RAG-based pipelines using frameworks like LangChain & LlamaIndex.
• Good understanding of various LLMs like Azure OpenAI and proficiency in their effective utilization.
• Expertise in crafting and optimizing prompts using different strategies, including providing context and zero-shot techniques.
• Skilled in creating prompts that efficiently guide LLMs to generate outputs meeting business requirements.
• Solid working knowledge of the engineering components essential in a Gen AI application, including Vector DB, caching layer, chunking, and embedding.
• Experience in scaling GenAI or similar applications to accommodate a high number of users, large data size, and reduce response time.
• Must Have Skills : Python, AWS / Azure, Data Science, Gen AI tools (Azure Open AI, Langchain, vector DB), Software Engineering.
• Good to Have : DevOps, CI / CD, Kubernetes. Product development Experience.

What You’ll Bring

Perks & Benefits :

ZS offers a comprehensive total rewards package including health and well-being, financial planning, annual leave, personal growth and professional development. Our robust skills development programs, multiple career progression options and internal mobility paths and collaborative culture empowers you to thrive as an individual and global team member.

We are committed to giving our employees a flexible and connected way of working. A flexible and connected ZS allows us to combine work from home and on-site presence at clients / ZS offices for the majority of our week. The magic of ZS culture and innovation thrives in both planned and spontaneous face-to-face connections.

Travel :

Travel is a requirement at ZS for client facing ZSers; business needs of your project and client are the priority. While some projects may be local, all client-facing ZSers should be prepared to travel as needed. Travel provides opportunities to strengthen client relationships, gain diverse experiences, and enhance professional growth by working in different environments and cultures.