# Senior Data Scientist

About the Role: We are seeking an AI R&D Scientist with 3 - 5 years of experience in Machine Learning, NLP, and Generative AI to lead research and development initiatives around Large Language Models (LLMs), Small Language Models (SLMs), AI agents, and advanced enterprise AI solutions. The ideal candidate should possess strong expertise in model training, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, model evaluation, and deployment optimization. Key Responsibilities : Research & Innovation : - Design and execute research initiatives in Generative AI, LLMs, and SLMs. - Evaluate emerging foundation models and identify enterprise use cases. - Publish internal research findings and contribute to innovation roadmaps. - Stay updated with the latest developments in AI research. Model Development : - Train, fine-tune, and optimize LLMs and SLMs for domain-specific applications. - Build custom language models from open-source architectures. - Implement parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques such as LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT, and DPO. - Develop model evaluation frameworks covering accuracy, reasoning, hallucination rates, and safety. Prompt Engineering & AI Systems : - Design advanced prompt

- **Id**: 1266057
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/slo-technologies-senior-data-scientist>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Pune, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-08T07:12:10Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-09-08T07:12:10Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 65
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3364
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Financial Software & Embedded Finance

## Company

- **Id**: 3801243
- **Name**: SLO Technologies
- **Domain**: advarisk.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/slo-technologies>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 19000
- **Max usd**: 41000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 75

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **DeepSeek** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **DPO** — Optional: no
- **Falcon** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Gemma** — Optional: no
- **Hallucination** — Optional: no
- **Hugging Face** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Distillation** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: no
- **Llama** — Optional: no
- **LlamaIndex** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LoRA** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Milvus** — Optional: no
- **Mistral** — Optional: no
- **Model Distillation** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: no
- **Ollama** — Optional: no
- **PEFT** — Optional: no
- **Pinecone** — Optional: no
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **QLoRA** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **Qwen** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: no
- **Transformers** — Optional: no
- **vLLM** — Optional: no
- **Weaviate** — Optional: no
- **RLHF** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 65

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T22:00:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 6
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 0.4
- **P active**: 0.544
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 63
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: seen:63, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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