AI Engineer

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Job Details
Senior AI Developer
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior AI Developer with expertise in Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Deep Learning to design and develop cutting-edge AI solutions. This role involves working with large-scale datasets, optimizing AI models for real-world applications, and deploying scalable AI solutions.

• Develop and fine-tune LLMs (GPT, BERT, T5, LLaMA, Mistral) for text generation, summarization, translation, and question-answering tasks.
• Work with transformer-based architectures, understanding self-attention mechanisms, token embeddings, and model interpretability.
• Implement custom tokenization techniques, text embedding models (Sentence-BERT, OpenAI Embeddings, Cohere, etc.), and efficient inference optimizations.
• Apply prompt engineering and prompt tuning techniques to optimize model responses.
• Work with LangChain and LLM orchestration frameworks to build AI-powered applications.
• Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines using vector databases like FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, ChromaDB.
• Work with Hugging Face Transformers, spaCy, NLTK, and OpenAI APIs.

Technical Skills

• Proficiency in Python
• Experience with Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, OpenAI APIs
• Strong knowledge of machine learning libraries: scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM
• Experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Faiss, Pinecone, Weaviate, ChromaDB
• Training, fine-tuning, and optimizing transformer models (BERT, GPT, T5, LLaMA)
• Deep understanding of self-attention, positional embeddings, sequence modeling
• Strong NLP expertise: Named Entity Recognition (NER), topic modeling, text embeddings
• Good grasp of linear algebra: vectors, matrices, eigenvalues, eigenvectors etc
• Expertise in gradient descent, backpropagation, activation functions, loss functions
• Experience with dimensionality reduction techniques for feature selection
• Knowledge of time-series forecasting, anomaly detection, and probabilistic modeling
• Understanding of model serving techniques, including REST APIs and real-time inference

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor of science/technology/enginnering
• Experience - 6+ Years in with expertise in Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Deep Learning, AI

What Cencora offers
Benefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.
Full time
Affiliated Companies
Affiliated Companies: Phlexglobal, Inc.
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