Data Scientist II

Data Scientist II

Experience: 2-4 Years| Location: Bengaluru (Hybrid) | Team: Data Science & AI

About the Role

Akaike Technologies builds AI-driven solutions across industries, using data and AI to drive growth, efficiency, and value for our clients. We’re hiring a hands-on Data Scientist II to design and deploy solutions across Generative AI, agentic systems, deep learning, and classical ML. You’ll own systems end-to-end - from rapid prototyping to scalable production - working close to real business problems. Pharma or life-sciences experience is a strong plus.

Key Responsibilities

• GenAI & Agents: Build and deploy Generative AI solutions - agentic systems and RAG pipelines - including agents that reason, use tools, and act over structured (databases, APIs) and unstructured data.
• Multi-Agent Orchestration: Design multi-agent workflows using patterns like ReACT, planner-executor, and agent-critique to break down and solve complex tasks.
• Reliability & Evaluation: Establish evaluation frameworks - LLM-as-a-judge, groundedness/faithfulness, hallucination detection - to test and ensure the safety and accuracy of LLM systems.
• End-to-End ML: Apply forecasting, CLV, recommendation, and NLP techniques, owning the full lifecycle from prototype to scalable, low-latency deployment (Docker, AWS).
• Big Data: Process billions of records with PySpark to engineer features and extract actionable insights.
• Experimentation: Run experiments and EDA to validate hypotheses, and communicate results and solution outlines clearly to stakeholders.
• Mentorship: Mentor junior team members and bridge business problems and data science across engineering and product teams.

Core Qualifications & Skills

• 3-4 years building and deploying machine-learning models in production.
• Generative AI with LLMs - RAG (chunking, embeddings, vector search with Pinecone/Milvus/Weaviate, re-ranking) and agentic frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph).
• Hands-on with tool use / function calling, prompt engineering, and structured outputs / guardrails.
• Strong classical ML and deep learning (ANN, CNNs, LSTMs, Transformers).
• Traditional NLP: Transformers (BERT, T5, GPT), Word2Vec, NER, topic modeling, contrastive learning.
• Expert Python (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, PyTorch/TensorFlow) and strong SQL; PySpark for distributed processing.
• Solid system design and MLOps - Docker and AWS (S3, Lambda, ECR, Step Functions).

Preferred Qualifications

• Pharma or life-sciences domain, with claims data and commercial analytics.
• Fine-tuning open-source LLMs (Llama, Mistral) for specific tasks.
• Latest agentic systems - MCP and multi-agent frameworks (AutoGen, CrewAI).
• Advanced ML: PU learning, representation learning, and model explainability.
• Domain models such as Marketing Mix Models (MMM), demand forecasting, or multi-dimensional time-series.
• Open-source AI/ML contributions or publications.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive ESOP grants.
• Working with Fortune 500 companies and world-class teams.
• Publishing papers and attending conferences.
• Networking events, conferences, and seminars.
• Visibility across all functions at Akaike - sales, pre-sales, lead generation, marketing, and hiring.