Lead Data Scientist
- Makemytrip
- 6 - 8 years
- Bengaluru
- 2 days ago
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Job Description
- Design, develop, and fine-tune multilingual Small Language Models (SLMs) with advanced AI capabilities for agentic applications such as travel destination expertise, Myra bot orchestration, hotel semantic search, and customer support bot assistance.
- Build custom Natural Language Inference (NLI) and reward-scoring models to improve preference-based SLM training (DPO, PPO, SteerLM etc), enhancing multi-agent response quality and relevance.
- Develop and implement active learning pipelines for data and models, for NLP, Named Entity Recognition (NER), conversational latent intent/concepts, travel-specific embeddings, and domain-specific SLM training for summarization, rephrasing, and planning .
- Architect and enhance conversational AI systems to dynamically adapt and comprehend concepts/intents, NLP, and NER tasks across multiple lines of business, supporting the Myra chatbot ecosystem.
- Drive end-to-end quality assurance through robust integration and experience testing, establishing objective evaluation metrics and leveraging A/B testing for performance optimization.
- Mentor and guide engineering teams in advanced SLM and Generative AI analytics , fostering growth and innovation.
- Collaborate across teams to deliver scalable solutions that impact millions of users, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Focus on hosting and deploying Generative AI models on robust and efficient infrastructure to support large-scale operations.
What You Bring:
- Deep experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP & NLI), tiny/small language models, base language model retraining (both transformer and BERT based architectures).
- Extensive experience in conversational NLP systems.
- Experience in SLM adaptor fine tuning, SFT training, SLM pruning (base and instruct models)
- Experience in retriever frameworks in Q&A bots.
- Experience in contrastive learning, graph learning based embedding methods with heterogenous features.
- Preferably experience in building NLP active learning pipelines.
- Demonstrable experience in scaling your models to large scale search systems is a plus.
- Very good critical reasoning skills, data centric NLP/NLI systems.
- Must have temperament and hunger to work in fast-paced environment.
Why Join Us
- Be part of a team revolutionizing the travel industry with cutting-edge AI and Generative AI technologies, impacting millions of users worldwide.
Job Classification
Industry: Travel & TourismFunctional Area / Department: Data Science & AnalyticsRole Category: Data Science & Machine LearningRole: Data ScientistEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: MakemytripLocation(s): Bengaluru
Keyskills: python modeling natural language processing neural networks scale bert machine learning artificial intelligence pipeline deep learning tensorflow system operations data science predictive modeling keras statistical modeling text mining
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