Job Description

Job Title

Lead Data scientist

Job Description

Job title:

Lead Data scientist

Your Role

The Lead Data Scientistarchitects, builds, and runsproduction-gradeMachine 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 robust 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
- 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.
- 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 quali

📌 Lead Data scientist (Bengaluru)
🏢 Philips
📍 Bengaluru