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Apply today!\nJob Details\nKey Responsibilities\nDevelop and fine-tune LLMs (GPT, BERT, T5, LLaMA, Mistral) for text generation,\nsummarization, translation, and question-answering tasks.\nWork with transformer-based architectures, understanding self-attention\nmechanisms, token embeddings, and model interpretability.\nImplement custom tokenization techniques, text embedding models (SentenceBERT, OpenAI Embeddings, Cohere, etc.), and efficient inference optimizations.\nApply prompt engineering and prompt tuning techniques to optimize model\nresponses.\nWork with LangChain and LLM orchestration frameworks to build AI-powered\napplications.\nBuild Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines using vector databases\nlike FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, ChromaDB.\nWork with Hugging Face Transformers, spaCy, NLTK, and OpenAI APIs.\nTechnical Skills\nProficiency in Python\nExperience with Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, OpenAI APIs\nStrong knowledge of machine learning libraries: scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM\nExperience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Faiss, Pinecone,\nWeaviate, ChromaDB\nTraining, fine-tuning, and optimizing transformer models (BERT, GPT, T5, LLaMA)\nDeep understanding of self-attention, positional embeddings, sequence modeling\nStrong NLP expertise: Named Entity Recognition (NER), topic modeling, text\nembeddings\nGood grasp of linear algebra: vectors, matrices, eigenvalues, eigenvectors etc\nExpertise in gradient descent, backpropagation, activation functions, loss\nfunctions\nExperience with dimensionality reduction techniques for feature selection\nKnowledge of time-series forecasting, anomaly detection, and probabilistic\nmodeling\nUnderstanding of model serving techniques, including REST APIs and real-time\ninference.\n.\nBachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, data science, information systems, machine learning, or a related field, or equivalent experience required.2+ years of experience in MLOps engineering, machine learning engineering, platform engineering, DevOps engineering, software engineering, or a related technical field required.\nCertification in cloud platforms, DevOps, machine learning, automation, container orchestration, or platform engineering preferred.\nCertification in cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, machine learning operations, or software delivery practices preferred.\nWhat Cencora offers\nBenefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.\nFull timeAffiliated Companies\nAffiliated Companies: CENCORA BUSINESS SERVICES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITEDEqual Employment Opportunity\nCencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.\nThe company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. 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