Data Scientist

Skills this role screens for

About the role

Ford is hiring for the role of Data Scientist!

The work

Responsibilities of the Candidate

Who they want

ML/DL Skills

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High familiarity in the use of DL theory/practices in NLP applications

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Comfort level to code in ADK, A2A, AgentSkills, Ontology, Huggingface, LangGraph, LangChain, Chainlit, Tensorflow and/or Pytorch, Scikit-learn, Numpy and Pandas

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Comfort level to use two/more of open source NLP modules like SpaCy, TorchText, fastai.text, farm-haystack, and others

Who they want

NLP Skills

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Knowledge in fundamental text data processing (like use of regex, token/word analysis, spelling correction/noise reduction in text, segmenting noisy unfamiliar sentences/phrases at right places, deriving insights from clustering, etc.,)

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Have implemented in real-world BERT/or other transformer fine-tuned models (Seq classification, NER or QA) from data preparation, model creation and inference till deployment

Python Project Management Skills

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Familiarity in the use of Docker tools, pipenv/conda/poetry env

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Comfort level in following Python project management best practices (use of setup.py, logging, pytests, relative module imports,sphinx docs,etc.,)

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Familiarity in use of Github (clone, fetch, pull/push,raising issues and PR, etc.,)

Who they want

Cloud Skills and Computing

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Use of GCP services like BigQuery, Cloud function, Cloud run, Cloud Build, VertexAI,

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Good working knowledge on other open source packages to benchmark and derive summary

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Experience in using GPU/CPU of cloud and on-prem infrastructures

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Skillset to leverage cloud platform for Data Engineering, Big Data and ML needs.

Who they want

Deployment Skills

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Use of Dockers (experience in experimental docker features, docker-compose, etc.,)

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Familiarity with orchestration tools such as airflow, Kubeflow

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Experience in CI/CD, infrastructure as code tools like terraform etc.

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Kubernetes or any other containerization tool with experience in Helm, Argoworkflow, etc.,

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Ability to develop APIs with compliance, ethical, secure and safe AI tools.

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UI

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Good UI skills to visualize and build better applications using Gradio, Dash, Streamlit, React, Django, etc.,

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Deeper understanding of javascript, css, angular, html, etc., is a plus.

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Data Engineering

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Skillsets to perform distributed computing (specifically parallelism and scalability in Data Processing, Modeling and Inferencing through Spark, Dask, RapidsAI or RapidscuDF)

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Ability to build python-based APIs (e.g.: use of FastAPIs/ Flask/ Django for APIs)

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Experience in Elastic Search and Apache Solr is a plus, vector databases.

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Design NLP/LLM/GenAI applications/products by following robust coding practices,

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Explore SoTA models/techniques so that they can be applied for automotive industry usecases

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Conduct ML experiments to train/infer models; if need be, build models that abide by memory & latency restrictions,

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Deploy REST APIs or a minimalistic UI for NLP applications using Docker and Kubernetes tools

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Showcase NLP/LLM/GenAI applications in the best way possible to users through web frameworks (Dash, Plotly, Streamlit, etc.,)

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Converge multibots into super apps using LLMs with multimodalities

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Develop agentic workflow using Autogen, Agentbuilder, langgraph

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Build modular AI/ML products that could be consumed at scale.

Who they want

Requirements

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Experience in LLM models like GPT5, Gemini, Kimi, Seedance (open-source models),

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Work through the complete lifecycle of Gen AI model development, from training and testing to deployment and performance monitoring.

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Developing and maintaining AI pipelines with multimodalities like text, image, audio etc.

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Have implemented in real-world Chat bots or conversational agents at scale handling different data sources.

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Experience in developing Image generation/translation tools using any of the latent diffusion models like stable diffusion, Instruct pix2pix.

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Expertise in handling large scale structured and unstructured data.

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Efficiently handled large-scale generative AI datasets and outputs.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Maths or Science
• Performed any modern NLP/LLM courses/open competitions is also welcomed.
• Strong communication skills and do excellent teamwork through Git/slack/email/call with multiple team members across geographies.