Alight

Architect

Alight
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24 hours ago
Chennai, IndiaSenior / Staff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and deploy scalable machine learning models and AI applications that address complex business problems.
  • Design and develop agentic AI search and chat applications and AI paved paths for the engineering organization.
  • Evaluate application and model performance through experimentation, analysis, and interpretation of results.
  • Fine-tune and deploy LLMs and foundation models and implement RAG, guardrails, prompt engineering, and LLM security practices.
  • Write production-quality Python code for feature engineering, model evaluation, and interface services.
  • Build high-performance data ingestion pipelines and support data preparation, cleaning, transformation, and feature engineering.
  • Build Spring AI MCPs, tools, and plugins and work with AWS data and data science capabilities.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, domain, and business stakeholders and mentor engineers on ML best practices without direct people management.

Requirements

  • 8–10 years of overall experience in data engineering, ingestion, AI/ML, or GenAI-related projects.
  • At least 5 years of experience working on AI, GenAI, or ML projects.
  • Master’s degree preferred in computer science, data science, mathematics, actuarial science, engineering, or a related field.
  • Experience programming in Python or Spark, including ScalaSpark or PySpark, and familiarity with TensorFlow, Keras, and PyTorch.
  • Familiarity with Java, Spring AI, and Spring Boot services.
  • Knowledge of deep learning architectures and techniques, including convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, and reinforcement learning.
  • Experience with AWS data and data science tools such as SageMaker, Glue, and Lambda.
  • Experience with data engineering, ingestion techniques, Agile and DevOps development processes, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to nontechnical audiences.

Benefits

  • Health coverage, wellbeing and support programs, retirement benefits, vacation and sick leave, maternity, paternity and adoption leave, voluntary benefits, and continuing education and training.
  • Employment is contingent on successfully completing a background check, which may include identity, education, employment, criminal, sanctions, credit, or drug screening as applicable.

Tech Stack

Apache SparkAWSGitHub ActionsJavaJenkinsKerasPythonPyTorchScalaSpring BootTensorFlow
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About Alight

10,000+ employees

Alight provides cloud-based benefits administration and human capital solutions to large employers, combining its Alight Worklife platform with outsourced services for health, wealth, leave, and wellbeing programs. It earns revenue through SaaS subscriptions and long-term managed services and consulting. Headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois, Alight was carved out of Aon’s benefits outsourcing business by Blackstone in 2017 and is now publicly traded on the NYSE (ticker: ALIT).

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