Data Scientist

Posted 2 Days Ago
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
Hybrid
Entry level
Automotive
The Role
Design, develop, evaluate, and deploy NLP, LLM, generative AI, multimodal, and agentic applications. Responsibilities include fine-tuning models, conducting experiments, building scalable data and ML pipelines, developing APIs and user interfaces, and deploying applications with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure. The role also involves conversational agents, image-generation tools, performance monitoring, and production-ready AI products for automotive use cases.
Summary Generated by Built In

ML/DL Skills:

  • High familiarity in the use of DL theory/practices in NLP applications

  • Comfort level to code in ADK, A2A, AgentSkills, Ontology, Huggingface, LangGraph, LangChain, Chainlit, Tensorflow and/or Pytorch, Scikit-learn, Numpy and Pandas

  • Comfort level to use two/more of open source NLP modules like SpaCy, TorchText, fastai.text, farm-haystack, and others

 

NLP Skills: 

  • Knowledge in fundamental text data processing (like use of regex, token/word analysis, spelling correction/noise reduction in text, segmenting noisy unfamiliar sentences/phrases at right places, deriving insights from clustering, etc.,) 

  • Have implemented in real-world BERT/or other transformer fine-tuned models (Seq classification, NER or QA) from data preparation, model creation and inference till deployment 

 

Python Project Management Skills

  • Familiarity in the use of Docker tools, pipenv/conda/poetry env

  • Comfort level in following Python project management best practices (use of setup.py, logging, pytests, relative module imports,sphinx docs,etc.,)

  • Familiarity in use of Github (clone, fetch, pull/push,raising issues and PR, etc.,)

 

Cloud Skills and Computing:

  • Use of GCP services like BigQuery, Cloud function, Cloud run, Cloud Build, VertexAI, 

  • Good working knowledge on other open source packages to benchmark and derive summary

  • Experience in using GPU/CPU of cloud and on-prem infrastructures

  • Skillset to leverage cloud platform for Data Engineering, Big Data and ML needs.

 

Deployment Skills:

  • Use of Dockers (experience in experimental docker features, docker-compose, etc.,)

  • Familiarity with orchestration tools such as airflow, Kubeflow

  • Experience in CI/CD, infrastructure as code tools like terraform etc. 

  • Kubernetes or any other containerization tool with experience in Helm, Argoworkflow, etc.,

  • Ability to develop APIs with compliance, ethical, secure and safe AI tools. 

 

UI: 

  • Good UI skills to visualize and build better applications using Gradio, Dash, Streamlit, React, Django, etc.,

  • Deeper understanding of javascript, css, angular, html, etc., is a plus. 

 

Data Engineering: 

  • Skillsets to perform distributed computing (specifically parallelism and scalability in Data Processing, Modeling and Inferencing through Spark, Dask, RapidsAI or RapidscuDF)

  • Ability to build python-based APIs (e.g.: use of FastAPIs/ Flask/ Django for APIs)

  • Experience in Elastic Search and Apache Solr is a plus, vector databases. 

Responsibilities
  • Design NLP/LLM/GenAI applications/products by following robust coding practices, 

  • Explore SoTA models/techniques so that they can be applied for automotive industry usecases

  • Conduct ML experiments to train/infer models; if need be, build models that abide by memory & latency restrictions, 

  • Deploy REST APIs or a minimalistic UI for NLP applications using Docker and Kubernetes tools

  • Showcase NLP/LLM/GenAI applications in the best way possible to users through web frameworks (Dash, Plotly, Streamlit, etc.,)

  • Converge multibots into super apps using LLMs with multimodalities

  • Develop agentic workflow using Autogen, Agentbuilder, langgraph

  • Build modular AI/ML products that could be consumed at scale.

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Maths or Science 

Performed any modern NLP/LLM courses/open competitions is also welcomed. Strong communication skills and do excellent teamwork through Git/slack/email/call with multiple team members across geographies. 

  • Experience in LLM models like GPT5, Gemini, Kimi, Seedance (open-source models), 

  • Work through the complete lifecycle of Gen AI model development, from training and testing to deployment and performance monitoring.

  • Developing and maintaining AI pipelines with multimodalities like text, image, audio etc. 

  • Have implemented in real-world Chat bots or conversational agents at scale handling different data sources.  

  • Experience in developing Image generation/translation tools using any of the latent diffusion models like stable diffusion, Instruct pix2pix. 

  • Expertise in handling  large scale structured and unstructured data.

  • Efficiently handled large-scale generative AI datasets and outputs.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or Science
  • Strong familiarity with deep learning theory and practices for NLP applications
  • Experience implementing real-world BERT or transformer models for sequence classification, named entity recognition, or question answering
  • Proficiency with Python and modern machine learning, NLP, and generative AI frameworks
  • Experience with the complete generative AI model lifecycle, including training, testing, deployment, and performance monitoring
  • Experience developing multimodal AI pipelines involving text, image, and audio data
  • Experience implementing chatbots or conversational agents at scale
  • Experience handling large-scale structured and unstructured data and generative AI datasets
  • Experience with cloud platforms, distributed computing, data engineering, and ML infrastructure
  • Experience deploying REST APIs or user interfaces using Docker and Kubernetes
  • Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, orchestration, and containerization tools
  • Strong communication and teamwork skills across geographically distributed teams
  • Completion of modern NLP or LLM courses or open competitions
  • Experience with GPT-5, Gemini, Kimi, or Seedance models
  • Experience developing image-generation or image-translation tools using latent diffusion models such as Stable Diffusion or Instruct Pix2Pix
  • Experience with Elasticsearch, Apache Solr, or vector databases
  • Deeper understanding of JavaScript, CSS, Angular, and HTML

Ford Motor Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Healthcare Strength — Eligible employees can access medical, dental, and prescription coverage starting on the first day, with some zero-cost plan options and free mental health support. Benefits materials highlight comprehensive healthcare as a core pillar.
  • Retirement Support — Employees can enroll in a 401(k)-style plan from day one, and some salaried plans include a company match of $0.90 per dollar on the first 5% contributed. Official summaries also describe financial-planning support.
  • Parental & Family Support — The package includes paid parental leave, fertility, surrogacy, and adoption benefits, plus a ramp-up program for new parents returning to work. Flexible family-care days and other time-off options support caregiving needs.

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