Principal Data Scientist

Genpact; Delhi; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Genpact in Delhi is recruiting a Principal Data Scientist to partner with HR leadership and SMEs to define high-impact HR AI initiatives. You will lead end-to-end design of GenAI-powered solutions, including RAG pipelines and multi-agent orchestration, and drive cloud deployments on Azure/AWS.

The role emphasizes strategic alignment, hands-on technical leadership, and mentoring a team of data scientists and ML engineers to deliver scalable AI products for HR applications.

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications include a B.Tech/M.Tech in CS/Data Science/AI.
• Relevant years of experience in Data Science/ AI/ ML roles.
• Experience with GenAI/Agentic AI preferred.
• Proven leadership and stakeholder management experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with HR leadership to identify high-impact HR AI problems.
• Lead end-to-end implementation of GenAI solutions and ML pipelines.
• Translate business requirements into technical roadmaps.
• Mentor a team of data scientists and AI/ML engineers.
• Drive innovation by exploring emerging AI trends for HR.

Skills

People leadership

Stakeholder management

GenAI & Agentic AI

Data Science fundamentals

Education

B.Tech / M.Tech in Computer Science / Data Science / AI

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

OpenAI

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Azure ML

AWS SageMaker

Job description

Inviting applications for the role of Principal Data Scientist

In this role you need to partner with HR Leadership and functional SMEs to identify prioritize and define high-impact business problems in the HR domain. Pitch ideas secure buy-in and maintain alignment with senior stakeholders. Create design of solutions/products involving RAG pipelines multi-agent systems LLM based orchestration and workflows

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Business Alignment

• Partner with HR leadership and functional SMEs to identify prioritize and define high impact business problems in the HR domain.
• Conduct cost-benefit analysis for proposed AI solutions and present data-backed recommendations.
• Pitch ideas secure buy-in and maintain alignment with senior stakeholders
• Provide regular executive updates highlight progress risks and mitigation plans.

Solution Design & Delivery

• Lead end-to-end implementation of Agentic AI solutions using ML GenAI and other technologies
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications and actionable roadmaps.
• Create design of solutions/products involving RAG pipelines multi-agent systems LLM based orchestration and workflows
• Oversee solution development testing and deployment on cloud platforms (Azure AWS).
• Ensure on-time delivery of the solution

Team & Technical Leadership

• Lead and mentor a team of data scientists AI/ML engineers.
• Conduct code reviews architecture reviews and ensure adherence to best practices.

Innovation & Ideation

• Brainstorm with SMEs to uncover latent HR challenges
• Explore emerging AI trends (multi-modal LLMs reasoning models autonomous agents) for HR use cases.

Qualifications we seek in you!

Minimum Qualifications/skills

• B.Tech / M.Tech in Computer Science Data Science AI or related field
• Relevant years of experience in Data Science / AI / ML roles
• Experience in Gen AI Agentic AI will be preferred
• Relevant years of experience in people leadership and stakeholder management

Preferred Qualifications/ Skills

• GenAI & Agentic AI - CrewAI LangChain LlamaIndex OpenAI
• LLM Expertise - Prompt engineering chain-of-thought ReAct RAG fine-tuning (LoRA PEFT) LLM evaluation
• ML/DL Frameworks - TensorFlow PyTorch Keras Scikit-learn XGBoost
• Classical ML - Logistic Regression Random Forest SVM Clustering
• Deep Learning - ANN CNN RNN LSTM Transformers BERT GPT architectures
• Cloud & MLOps - Azure ML AWS SageMaker GCP Vertex AI
• Data Stack - Python SQL Spark Pandas