AI Research Engineer - NLP & Generative AI

Keywords Studios


Date: 14 hours ago
City: Pune, Maharashtra
Contract type: Full time
About The Role

We are seeking a highly motivated AI Research Engineer with a strong background in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Generative AI to join our growing team. The ideal candidate will be passionate about advancing open-source LLMs, embedding techniques, and vector databases, and will have hands-on experience building classification models. Experience in the customer support industry and knowledge of MLOps/LLMOps practices will be a strong plus.

Requirements

Required Skills and Qualifications

  • Strong proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)
  • Solid understanding of NLP algorithms, transformer architectures, and language model training/fine-tuning
  • Experience with open-source LLMs (e.g., LLaMA, Mistral, Falcon, etc.)
  • Expertise in embedding techniques (e.g., OpenAI, HuggingFace, SentenceTransformers) and their applications in semantic search and RAG
  • Experience with vector databases such as Weaviate, Pinecone, FAISS, or Milvus
  • Hands-on experience building NLP classification models
  • Familiarity with MLOps tools (e.g., MLflow, DVC, Kubeflow) and LLMOps platforms for managing LLM pipelines
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Preferred Qualifications

  • Prior experience in the customer support or conversational AI industry
  • Knowledge of deploying AI applications in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Contributions to open-source projects in the NLP/LLM space
  • Experience with prompt engineering and fine-tuning for specific downstream tasks

Benefits

  • Hybrid setup
  • Worker's insurance
  • Paid Time Offs
  • Other employee benefits to be discussed by our Talent Acquisition team in India

Closing:

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