LLM Principal Data Scientist – NLP Domain

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Data science techniques, Effective communication skills, Large Language Models - LLMs, Leadership Skill, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Scrum Agile Methodology

Job Description

Citi Innovation Lab in Tel Aviv is where dynamic projects are cultivated. The lab provides thought-leadership, technological solutions, and innovation to Citi’s global banking business.

The AI/NLP group is the center of revolutionizing Citi's approach to handling data: including automated document processing, information and entity extraction, summarization, as well as data analysis based chatbots. We are actively working on developing and introducing cutting edge technologies, including LLMs. Combined text and image synergies and more.

We are looking for multi talented candidates that can both drive thought leadership, manage teams as well as research and develop NLP technologies and frameworks custom tailored to Citi needs. The successful candidate will also be an influencer and be able to mentor and build their team members to grow professionally and personally. Finally, we expect our successful candidate to be able to work with internal clients and stakeholders to facilitate access to data, infrastructure and finally, deployment.

What will you do?

• Work with the AI/NLP Group manger to strategically drive the direction of the group.
• Keep up with cutting edge technologies and trends in the NLP field, and suggest adaptation strategies.
• Ideate and innovate new value generating initiatives.
• Tech lead NLP data scientists that are strong and experts in their domain.
• Build strong working relationships with product managers leading multiple initiatives as you will be accountable for your team members deliverables and quality of output.
• Design, implement and maintain libraries, and develop new algorithms and services for:
• Text understanding using unsupervised and supervised approaches
• Combine text and layout processing to improve document parsing
• A variety of LLM based Co-Pilot initiatives, Chatbots and dialog modeling
• Develop natural language query facilities to drive intelligent data retrieval and analysis
• Explore text generation approaches for producing reports, summaries, and responses.
• Deliver production quality libraries and solutions

• Build a strong research team and play a role of mentor, provide professional guidance, and be a thought leader.
• Build and maintain DS and NLP best-practices and methodologies to bring our team to be first-on-class NLP team

What should you bring?

• At least 8 years’ experience as NLP engineer in a known software company.
• At least 6 years’ experience in managing direct employees in a scrum methodology
• M.Sc. degree in Engineering, computer science or related field.
• Proven experience in working with LLM
• Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams, demonstrated critical thinking, and thought leadership.
• Communication experience working with technical management teams to develop systems, solutions, and products.
• Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems.
• Experience establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and multiple partners in different time zones.