Job Description

Data Scientist – AI/ML & Identity Management

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Location: Hyderabad, India

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Experience: 7–15 years

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Employment Type: Full-time, Work from Office

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Role Overview

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We are looking for a Data Scientist with hands-on Python coding skills to develop and deploy AI/ML solutions for identity management. The role involves working with real-world identity data, developing NLP and name-matching algorithms, building ML models, and integrating them into production applications.

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The candidate will also be required to understand, analyze, enhance, and extend an existing Python codebase. Since access to external LLM-based coding assistants such as ChatGPT or Claude may be limited due to the confidentiality of data, the candidate must have strong independent coding and problem-solving abilities.

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Key Responsibilities

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- Develop algorithms for name matching, entity resolution, record linkage, duplicate detection, and identity matching.
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- Apply NLP and text similarity techniques including Jaro-Winkler, Levenshtein, TF-IDF, n-grams, token-based similarity, phonetic matching, embeddings, and transformer-based approaches.
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- Perform data preparation, feature engineering, statistical analysis, model training, validation, and performance optimization.
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- Develop hybrid solutions combining deterministic rules, fuzzy matching, statistical methods, and machine learning.
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- Write clean, efficient, maintainable Python code and develop reusable data science and ML components.
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- Understand and work extensively with an existing Python codebase, identify issues, optimize algorithms, and implement new functionality.
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- Develop and deploy ML models as production services/APIs and work with engineering teams to integrate them into enterprise applications.
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- Analyze model performance and address issues such as false positives, false negatives, scalability, latency, and model explainability.
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- Research and evaluate new AI/NLP techniques relevant to identity verification, fraud detection, and identity intelligence.
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Required Skills

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- Strong hands-on Python programming and software development skills.
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- Natural Language Processing and advanced text matching.
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- Robust foundation in Data Science, Machine Learning, statistics, and predictive modelling.
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- Strong knowledge of NLP, text processing, similarity algorithms, and entity matching.
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- Experience with Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, SciPy, and related Python ML/NLP libraries.
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- Experience in identity management, digital identity, KYC/e-KYC, or biometric applications.
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- Ability to independently understand and modify an existing codebase and develop solutions with limited reliance on LLM coding assistants.
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- Experience in fraud detection and anomaly detection models with respect to identity fraud is an added advantage.
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- Experience with customer/entity resolution and duplicate identity detection.
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- Experience with multilingual NLP, transliteration, and matching of names across different languages/scripts.
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- Experience in ML model deployment, REST APIs, Docker, AWS, or MLOps.
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Education

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Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related discipline.

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