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At Synaptiq, we believe in building a better world for future generations through novel applications of data. We create intelligent products for our customers that monitor the health of young coral to maintain perfect coral nursery conditions, improve infrastructure in Rwanda, make banking more accessible to low-income populations in Mexico, and help to reduce the risk of strokes and heart attacks. We choose to work on products that matter.
Synaptiq values not only the work we do, but also the people we work with. At Synaptiq, our team:- Is passionate about solving problems that improve lives
- Has the audacity to believe we can solve even the most seemingly impossible problem
- Believes that AI is the natural path forward to solving world class riddles and has the responsibility to be an ethical participant
- Is diverse and inclusive where collaboration flourishes and the work has meaning and a lasting impact
If you bring this kind of mindset to the table, we want to hear from you!
As our Contract Data Scientist - LLMs & GenAI:You will be the Data Science glue that brings intelligent products to life for our clients. These projects span the full spectrum of data and AI solutions - including predictive analytics, natural language processing, and computer vision along with the data pipelines and API's that feed them and make their outputs available.
On any given day we hope that you will:- Work on a cross functional team of product management, data engineering and Data Scientists to turn requirements into robust content-driven intelligent features
- Rapidly prototype features using LLM's, capture feedback and iterate to improve performance
- Explore, analyze, and benchmark different LLM's for different purposes
- Implement RAG pipelines
- Work with Dev and CloudOps teams to take code from POC to production
- 3-5+ years of relevant industry experience (consulting directly with clients is a plus)
- Solid programming fundamentals (algorithms, functional programming, data structures, API's) in Python
- Experience with NLP fundamentals
- Familiar with Software Engineering best practices - revision control, automated testing, CI/CD
- Hands-on experience working with LLM's and optimizing them for specific use cases via prompt engineering, RAG, fine tuning, etc.
- Familiarity with pyspark
- Comfort working in both Databricks and AWS native environments
- Good communication skills; comfort presenting technical topics to nontechnical stakeholders and customers
- Familiarity with recommendation systems
- Anyone can work from anywhere
- Health Insurance coverage for you and your family
- Performance-based bonuses
- Monthly internet stipend
- Work-life harmony so you don't have to 'balance' anything separately
- Fun-loving, generous, and kind coworkers
- Direct, honest, and transparent...always
- Open-minded and curious, committed to embracing other cultures, customs, and experiences that bring out the best in all of us and allow us to achieve our greatest potential as a team
- We are teachers and mentors to one another; committed to raising our collective AI game
We are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
Employment Type: CONTRACTOR
