Data Scientist

Full Time
Bengaluru, India

Company Background

RBIH is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the RBI to promote and facilitate an environment that accelerates innovation across the financial sector. RBIH intends to foster and evangelise innovation across the financial sector to enable “Frictionless Finance for a Billion Indians”. To do so, RBIH serves to enable synergy between technology companies, banks, non-banking financial companies, fintech, academia, behavioural economists, and investors through three pillars of focus – Product innovation, Process innovation, and Policy innovation, spearheaded by technology.

Background of the role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Data Scientist with a focus on large language models to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years of practical experience in the field of machine learning and data science, preferably in banking/fintech domain.

Educational Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, Marketing, or a related field; Master’s degree or MBA is preferred.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work with diverse datasets both structured as well as unstructured
  • Ensure data quality and implement data augmentation techniques to enhance model generalization.
  • Design, develop, and train large language models to meet specific project requirements.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and translate them into effective AI solutions.
  • Evaluate and fine-tune existing language models for improved performance, accuracy, and efficiency.
  • Implement optimization strategies to enhance the capabilities of language models in real-world applications.
  • Stay updated on industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies related to data science and machine learning
  • Proactively identify and implement innovative solutions to address challenges and improve model performance.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, engineers, and product managers, to integrate AI solutions into products and services.
  • Effectively communicate complex data science concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Share knowledge with the team through training sessions and documentation.

Required Skills

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field. Masters Preferred.
  • Proficient in programming languages such as Python, SQL and frameworks like TensorFlow, Keras, Pyspark, PyTorch etc.
  • 5-8 years’ experience working on AI/ML Models – supervised classification, neural networks, unsupervised and anomaly detection techniques
  • Capable of handling projects independently and mentoring a team of junior data scientists.
  • Experience in financial domain is desirable.
  • Solid understanding of natural language processing (NLP) concepts and techniques.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to think creatively to overcome challenges.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and contribute to a positive and inclusive workplace culture.

Last Date to apply

August 20, 2024

Location

Bengaluru, India

Department

Data Science and AI/ML

Employment type

Full Time

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