Lead Data Scientist

About Providence

Providence, one of the US's largest not-for-profit healthcare systems, is committed to high quality, compassionate healthcare for all. Driven by the belief that health is a human right and the vision, 'Health for a better world', Providence and its 121,000 caregivers strive to provide everyone access to affordable quality care and services.

Providence has a network of 51 hospitals, 1,000+ care clinics, senior services, supportive housing, and other health and educational services in the US.

Providence India is bringing to fruition the transformational shift of the healthcare ecosystem to Health 2.0. The India center will have focused efforts around healthcare technology and innovation, and play a vital role in driving digital transformation of health systems for improved patient outcomes and experiences, caregiver efficiency, and running the business of Providence at scale.

Why Us?

• Best In-class Benefits
• Inclusive Leadership
• Reimagining Healthcare
• Competitive Pay
• Supportive Reporting Relation

How is this team contributing to vision of Providence?

• Ensure a continual and seamless service for customers regardless of which services they access.

What will you be responsible for?

• End-to-end development and quality of solutions and services in conversational & Agentic AI capability
• Understanding and Implementing advanced techniques in Agentic AI & Conversational AI Frameworks.
• Introduce best practices in AI Frameworks.

What would your day look like?

• Lead the design and development of Agentic AI Frameworks, models and systems, ensuring high performance and scalability.
• Good in Python, RestAPI and data structure skills
• Fine-tune and optimize pre-trained large language models (LLMs) such as GPT, LLAMA, Falcon, and Mistral.
• Implement and manage model quantization techniques (e.g., GPTQ, AWQ, 8-bit/4-bit models) to enhance model efficiency.
• Utilize Langchain, Dagster etc for orchestration and memory management in agentic applications.
• Conduct thorough model evaluations using metrics such as BLEU, ROUGE, and perplexity to ensure model quality and performance.
• Develop and maintain systems for intent recognition, entity extraction, and generative dialogue management.
• Stay updated with the latest advancements in NLP and AI technologies and apply them to ongoing projects.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.

Who are we looking for?

• Minimum 6 years of experience in Programming Languages & AI Platforms
• Strong understanding of deep learning fundamentals, including LSTM, RNN, ANN, POS tagging, and Transformer models.
• Strong understanding and proficiency in Agentic AI Frameworks.
• Proven experience in fine-tuning pre-trained LLMs (e.g., GPT, LLAMA, Falcon, Mistral) and Quantization.
• Knowledge of model quantization techniques (GPTQ, AWQ, 8-bit/4-bit models).
• Proficiency in using orchestration frameworks, state and memory management.
• Experience with model evaluation metrics such as BLEU, ROUGE, and perplexity.
• Understanding of intent recognition, entity extraction, and generative dialogue management systems.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Good Understanding with Azure AI Foundary, Azure AI search, Indexing
• Knowledge in Kubernetes is good to have.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Event Hubs or Kafka Technologies
• Experience with load testing and unit testing tools.
• Proficient understanding source control and code versioning tools such as GIT, Azure DevOps etc.
• Familiarity with CICD and DevOps.

Providence's vision to create 'Health for a Better World' aids us to provide a fair and equitable workplace for all in our employment, whether temporary, part-time or full time, and to promote individuality and diversity of thought and background, and acknowledge its role in the organization's success. This makes us committed towards equal employment opportunities, regardless of race, religion or belief, color, ancestry, disability, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, ethnic origin, pregnancy, or related needs, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, or any other category protected by applicable law. In furtherance to our mission in building a more inclusive and equitable environment, we shall, from time to time, undertake programs to assist, uplift and empower underrepresented groups including but not limited to Women, PWD (Persons with Disabilities), LGTBQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Bisexual or Queer), Veterans and others. We strive to address all forms of discrimination or harassment and provide a safe and confidential process to report any misconduct.

Contact our Integrity hotline also, read our Code of Conduct.