Senior Data Scientist
First seen by Alion on Aug 21, 2026.
About Talentica Software :
Talentica Software is a product engineering company started by IITB alumni. It is a privately held company. Talenticas focus is to help build products for startups. Over the last 23 years, the company has worked with over 200+ US based startups, ensuring successful exits for many of them.
What makes Talentica different?
- Quality of people All engineers are graduates from top colleges - IITs, NITs and IISC.
- Product DNA Focus on achieving product outcomes through innovation and technology.
- Technical expertise Focus on cutting edge technologies, cloud, AI / ML and Blockchain.
Data Science Team :
The data science team works closely with the product engineering teams to enable product features and solve problems using Machine Learning and AI. The team has deployed over 50+ ML solutions in production till date in the areas of Predictive analytics, time series forecasting, NLP, Virtual assistants, object detection etc. using both Classical and Deep learning techniques.
Role & Key responsibilities :
- Identify features in products that can be enabled using AI and ML, own the solution from design to production deployment.
- Work closely with the engineering manager for estimation, integration and production deployment.
- Identify new techniques that would benefit customers and ensure that some of them are adopted.
- Showcase ML expertise through thought leadership articles and show and tell - POCs.
- Lead a small team of data scientists.
- Build a culture of merit in the team.
Desired Skills and Experience :
Must Have :
- Solved problems using Machine Learning in at least one area NLP, CV or Predictive Analytics.
- Excellent programming skills and must be able to implement complex algorithms in Python.
- Extensive understanding of ML and statistical algorithms.
- Hands-on experience with use of standard machine learning libraries such as OpenCV, Tensorflow, Keras etc.
- Hands-on experience with Agentic AI, including AI agents, LLMs, tool/function calling, and agentic workflows.
- Capability of converting a PoC to production quality code and subsequently deploy.
- Good communication skills both Oral and Written.
- Mentored or led a small team of ML engineers.
Nice to Have :
- Bigdata experience.
- Credited courses focused on linear algebra, stochastic models, pattern recognition, design and analysis of algorithms, machine learning.
- Should be capable of converting theory to practice by reading relevant papers.
Experience :
- Should have worked in the industry for at least 6-8 years.
- Should be capable of conceiving original ideas and coding them as working algorithms.
- Should have worked on 2 problems from definition to deployment.
Skills
Data Science, Data Scientist, Machine Learning, Python, Predictive Analytics, NLP, Agentic AI, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Tensorflow