Senior Associate, Data Scientist Gen AI

About the Role

At PwC, our people in data and analytics engineering focus on leveraging advanced technologies and techniques to design and develop robust data solutions for clients. They play a crucial role in transforming raw data into actionable insights, enabling informed decision-making and driving business growth. Those in artificial intelligence and machine learning at PwC will focus on developing and implementing advanced AI and ML solutions to drive innovation and enhance business processes. Your work will involve designing and optimising algorithms, models, and systems to enable intelligent decision-making and automation.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building analytical /DL/ ML algorithms using Python, R and other statistical tools.
• Strong data representation and lucid presentation (of analysis/modelling output) using Python, R Markdown.
• Ability to learn new scripting language or analytics platform.

Technical Skills Required (must have)

• Hands-On Exposure to Generative AI (Design, development of GenAI application in production).
• Strong understanding of RAG, Vector Database, Lang Chain and multimodal AI applications.
• Strong understanding of deploying and optimizing AI application in production.
• Strong knowledge of statistical and data mining techniques like Linear & Logistic Regression analysis, Decision trees, Bagging, Boosting, Time Series and Non-parametric analysis.
• Strong knowledge of DL & Neural Network Architectures (CNN, RNN, LSTM, Transformers etc.).
• Strong knowledge of SQL and R/Python and experience with distributing data/computing tools/IDEs.
• Experience in advanced Text Analytics (NLP, NLU, NLG).
• Understanding of LLM Ops, ML Ops for scalable ML development.
• Working knowledge on agents like PyTorch, TensorFlow.
• Proven capability in using Generative AI services like OpenAI, Google (Gemini).
• Understanding of Agentic AI Framework (Lang Graph, Auto gen etc.).
• Understanding of fine-tuning for pre-trained models like GPT, LLaMA, Claude etc. using LoRA, QLoRA and PEFT technique.

Mandatory Skill Sets

AI chatbots, Data structures, GenAI object-oriented programming, IDE, API, LLM Prompts, PyTorch, TensorFlow.

Preferred Skill Sets

AI chatbots, Data structures, GenAI object-oriented programming, IDE, API, LLM Prompts, PyTorch, TensorFlow.