AI Developer 2

myhrabc; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 4,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Cencora is seeking an experienced MLOps/ML Engineer to develop and fine-tune large language models for various text tasks. You will work with transformer architectures, embeddings, and efficient inference, building AI-powered applications using LangChain and RAG pipelines. Collaboration with NLP tools and OpenAI APIs is essential.

The role emphasizes cloud/DevOps familiarity, model serving, and a strong foundation in ML concepts. Join our India team to drive health tech innovations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/SE/DS or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years in MLOps/ML engineering or related field.
• Experience with cloud platforms and DevOps practices preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and fine-tune LLMs for text tasks including generation, summarization, translation, QA.
• Work with transformer architectures and understand self-attention and embeddings.
• Implement tokenization, text embeddings, and efficient inference optimizations.
• Apply prompt engineering and tuning to improve model responses.
• Build AI-powered apps with LangChain and orchestration frameworks.
• Create RAG pipelines using FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, ChromaDB.
• Work with Hugging Face Transformers, spaCy, NLTK, and OpenAI APIs.

Skills

Python

NLP

ML concepts

Gradient descent

Linear algebra

Model evaluation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/DS

Tools

Hugging Face Transformers

LangChain

OpenAI APIs

Faiss

Pinecone

Weaviate

ChromaDB

scikit-learn

XGBoost

LightGBM

Job description

Our team members are at the heart of everything we do. At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and fine-tune LLMs (GPT, BERT, T5, LLaMA, Mistral) for text generation, summarization, translation, and question-answering tasks.
• Work with transformer-based architectures, understanding self-attention mechanisms, token embeddings, and model interpretability.
• Implement custom tokenization techniques, text embedding models (SentenceBERT, OpenAI Embeddings, Cohere, etc.), and efficient inference optimizations.
• Apply prompt engineering and prompt tuning techniques to optimize model responses.
• Work with LangChain and LLM orchestration frameworks to build AI-powered applications.
• Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines using vector databases like FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, ChromaDB.
• Work with Hugging Face Transformers, spaCy, NLTK, and OpenAI APIs.

Technical Skills

• Proficiency in Python
• Experience with Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, OpenAI APIs
• Strong knowledge of machine learning libraries: scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM
• Experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Faiss, Pinecone, Weaviate, ChromaDB
• Training, fine-tuning, and optimizing transformer models (BERT, GPT, T5, LLaMA)
• Deep understanding of self-attention, positional embeddings, sequence modeling
• Strong NLP expertise: Named Entity Recognition (NER), topic modeling, text embeddings
• Good grasp of linear algebra: vectors, matrices, eigenvalues, eigenvectors etc
• Expertise in gradient descent, backpropagation, activation functions, loss functions
• Experience with dimensionality reduction techniques for feature selection
• Knowledge of time-series forecasting, anomaly detection, and probabilistic modeling
• Understanding of model serving techniques, including REST APIs and real-time inference.

Bachelor'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.

Certification in cloud platforms, DevOps, machine learning, automation, container orchestration, or platform engineering preferred.

Certification in cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, machine learning operations, or software delivery practices preferred.

What Cencora offers

Benefit 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.

Full time

Affiliated Companies: CENCORA BUSINESS SERVICES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

Equal Employment Opportunity

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