Job Title
Lead Data scientist
Job Description
Job title:
Lead Data scientist

Your role:
The Lead Data Scientist architects, builds, and runs production-grade Machine Learning and Generative AI systems—owning the full lifecycle from model development to scalable cloud deployment and ongoing performance monitoring. In addition, the role partners with commercial stakeholders translate market/customer data into decision-ready insights and AI-enabled analytics solutions that drive measurable outcomes
Operating with a builder and translator mindset, the individual rapidly develops MVP analytics solutions, leverages AI to accelerate insight generation, and ensures solid product engineering fundamentals, data quality, and governance. The role plays a critical part in establishing a single source of truth for performance management across markets and channels while elevating analytics maturity from descriptive reporting to predictive and insight-led decision making.
Key Responsibilities
1) ML & Deep Learning Model Development
Design, train, and optimize ML models for prediction,



classification, ranking, time-series forecasting, anomaly detection, NLP, and recommendation use cases.
Build robust experimentation workflows (train/validation strategy, ablations, error analysis) and improve model quality through iterative tuning.
Ensure reproducibility and maintainability through clean code practices, versioning, and automated testing.
2) GenAI Engineering (LLMs, RAG / MCP / fine-tuning, Agents)
Build enterprise-grade LLM applications using RAG (retrieval-augmented generation), MCP, and fine-tuning approaches: chunking strategies, embedding generation, hybrid retrieval, reranking, prompt templates, and citation/attribution patterns.
Develop LLM applications with tool use/function calling patterns and agentic workflows where appropriate.
Implement systematic evaluation: curated eval sets, prompt regression tests, hallucination checks, retrieval quality metrics, and automated qual

📌 Lead Data scientist (Bengaluru)
🏢 Philips
📍 Bengaluru