NLP Engineer
NorthBay Solutions21 hours ago
Lahore, PakistanSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of scalable NLP and LLM-powered solutions.
- Architect and optimize RAG pipelines, embeddings, vector search, and LLM applications.
- Fine-tune, evaluate, and optimize transformer-based models and LLMs for production use.
- Build data, training, inference, and model-evaluation pipelines.
- Improve model quality, latency, scalability, reliability, and cost.
- Establish best practices for experimentation, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring of AI systems.
- Translate business requirements into effective AI/ML solutions.
- Collaborate with ML engineers, software engineers, product teams, and stakeholders.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across NLP and Generative AI initiatives.
- Stay current with emerging NLP and Generative AI research, models, frameworks, and practices.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in NLP, Machine Learning, or Generative AI.
- Strong Python programming skills and hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, or equivalent frameworks.
- Deep understanding of NLP, transformers, LLMs, embeddings, RAG, fine-tuning, and model evaluation.
- Proven experience taking AI/ML solutions from experimentation to production.
- Strong software engineering and system-design skills, including APIs, data pipelines, and scalable architectures.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to independently drive technical initiatives.
- Preferred: experience with PEFT/LoRA, quantization, inference optimization, or distributed model training.
- Preferred: experience with vector databases, MLOps, cloud platforms, and AI evaluation or observability frameworks.
- Preferred: experience building AI agents, multimodal systems, or other advanced Generative AI applications.
- Preferred: open-source contributions, research, publications, or applied AI/ML innovation.
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About NorthBay Solutions
NorthBay Solutions is a privately held IT services firm that helps enterprises modernize on AWS through cloud migration, data engineering, and AI/ML solutions. An AWS Premier Consulting Partner founded in 2010 and headquartered in Andover, MA, it also partners with Snowflake and provides managed services, DevOps enablement, and application development. The company operates distributed teams across the US, Canada, UAE, India, and Pakistan.