About Position:

As the Lead Data Scientist, you will define the enterprise AI vision and spearhead research-to-production initiatives across Generative AI, LLM fine-tuning, and agentic AI systems—delivering measurable business outcomes at scale through solid technical leadership, governance, and cross-functional influence.

Role: Principal Data Scientist
Location: Pune
Experience: 15+ years
Job Type: Full Time Employment

What You'll Do:

Own and evolve the organization’s AI/ML strategy and multi-year roadmap, identifying high-impact opportunities across generative AI, large language models, multimodal systems, and autonomous/agentic workflows
Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing data science organization (hiring, mentoring, performance development), setting technical standards and career paths for senior ICs and managers
Set research and engineering priorities across model development, fine-tuning (SFT/RLHF/RLAIF), retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation, and agent architectures—balancing innovation, risk, and time-to-value




Define target-state architecture for AI platforms (MLOps/LLMOps, feature store, model registry, observability), ensuring security, privacy, compliance, and responsible AI practices
Partner with product, engineering, legal, security, and business leaders to translate ambiguous problems into scalable AI solutions with clear success metrics and adoption plans
Establish best practices for experimentation, model risk management, evaluation benchmarks, and production monitoring (quality, latency, cost, drift), enabling reliable and repeatable delivery
Represent the organization with executive presence in client forums, industry conferences, and academic partnerships; contribute to thought leadership, patents, and publications where relevant

Expertise You'll Bring:

Master’s / PhD or BTech in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related field (or equivalent, demonstrable industry expertise)
8+ years building and shipping ML s

📌 Principal Data Scientist (Pune)
🏢 Persistent Systems
📍 Pune