Lead AI Scientist: Generative AI & LLM Production

EdCast; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

EdCast is seeking a Lead AI Scientist to drive research, development, and deployment of advanced AI/ML solutions across the organization. You will tackle complex business problems with Generative AI, LLMs, NLP, recommendations, and agentic AI, taking ideas from research to production with continuous optimization.

You will design and evaluate state-of-the-art techniques, develop and fine-tune foundation models, and collaborate with software, product, data, and platform teams to deliver

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in CS/AI/ML/Statistics/Mathematics or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in AI/ML, data science, or related field.
• Strong understanding of ML and deep learning fundamentals.
• Hands-on Python and modern ML frameworks (PyTorch or TensorFlow).
• Experience deploying ML models at scale.
• Experience with Generative AI/LLMs, NLP, recommender systems, or IR.
• Experience with transformer architectures and foundation models.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop LLM, Generative AI, RAG, NLP, recommender, personalization, and agentic AI solutions.
• Research and evaluate state-of-the-art AI/ML techniques for business problems.
• Develop and fine-tune foundation models, embeddings, and task-specific models.
• Design training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and inference pipelines for AI models.
• Apply transformer architectures, RAG, embeddings, vector search, DL, RL, and info retrieval.
• Develop experimentation frameworks with metrics for model quality, relevance, accuracy, and cost.
• Investigate model behavior via experimentation, error analysis, and ablations.
• Build prototypes and transition approaches to production systems.
• Collaborate with SWE, Product, Data Eng, and Platform teams to productionize AI.
• Optimize models for accuracy, scalability, latency, memory, and cost.
• Design model evaluation frameworks including automated and LLM-based methods.
• Stay current with AI research and translate into practical solutions.
• Publish internal research, patents, or external papers when appropriate.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication

Problem solving

Statistical analysis

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/AI/ML/Statistics/Mathematics

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

Spark

FAISS

Weaviate

Milvus

LangChain

Job description

EdCast is seeking a Lead AI Scientist to drive research, development, and deployment of advanced AI/ML solutions across the organization. You will tackle complex business problems with Generative AI, LLMs, NLP, recommendations, and agentic AI, taking ideas from research to production with continuous optimization.

You will design and evaluate state-of-the-art techniques, develop and fine-tune foundation models, and collaborate with software, product, data, and platform teams to deliver