GenAI Science Director / Senior Principal Scientist

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You Are:

An AI practitioner, capable of hands-on development of Large Language Models as well as the ability to lead one or more delivery teams as required, in support of our Data and AI Practice.

Demonstrated Capabilities:

• Ability to build and execute fine-tuning pipelines for LLMs on target datasets.

• Capable of customizing LLMs for problem sets containing large amounts of data.

• Ability to design complex LLM workflows applicable to client-relevant use cases.?

• Expertly incorporate and optimize prompts to enhance LLM outputs.

• Design and optimize RAG workflows.??

• Design complex guardrail workflows that can be incorporated into LLM pipelines

• Ability to evaluate state of the art tooling and incorporate into LLM pipeline designs.??

• Ability to converse in LLM design, solutioning, and lead trainings to technical peers.

• Experience characterizing LLM vulnerabilities, robustness, and performance.

• Experience mitigating LLM hallucinations, unwanted biases, low-quality, and poisoned data ??

Role Description / Expectations:

• The GenAI Senior Engineer leads in conceptualization, design, and building of tuned LLM capabilities as well as engineering leveraged capabilities derived from LLMs.??

• Assists in developing programmed language capabilities, statistical analysis, NLP techniques.?

• Develops novel LLM pipelines optimized for complex client use cases.

• Implements optimal models, prompts, tools, and infrastructure components weighed against use case demands.

• Carefully applies responsible AI methodologies and practices to reduce unwanted bias,ensure trustworthy application of LLMs, and mitigate risks.

• Contributes to enterprise-wide understanding of LLM guardrails based on emerging research and observations from open source and commercial models.??

• Develops and incorporates novel optimizations to enhance LLM performance for applied use cases.

• Selectively applies LLM outputs to complex use cases.

• Expertly incorporates data retrieval tools which can be applied to a RAG framework to optimally apply LLMs for advanced client-use case.?

• Assists and trains junior LLM engineers in concepts, methods, and best practices.?

• Contributes to design and assessment of automated tools for insertion of guardrails into LLM workflows.

• Educates clients on ideal LLM use cases, prompting best practices, RAG workflows, and guardrail best practices.?

• Rapidly iterates on data ingest, prompt, model, and guardrail improvements to enhance performance of LLM pipeline for a given use case after initial testing.??

• Processes datasets for fine-tuning LLMs for target use cases.

Here's What You Need:

• Bachelor's Degree or 5+ years of equivalent industry experience

• Proven track-record of leading innovative teams, while producing tangible results.

• Good communications skills.

• Ability to represent Accenture in client-facing roles.

Bonus Points If:

• Advanced Degree in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) related field, with Ph.D. preferred, but not required

• 10+ years of industry experience

• Experience with Federal Clients

The Extras:

• US Citizenship Required

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