: Senior Databricks Consultant / ML & GenAI
Technical Skills and Experience
- At least 4 years of hands-on Databricks experience and 2+ years working on ML/GenAI workloads.
- Strong expertise in Databricks-based ML/GenAI architecture, model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
- Hands-on experience with Databricks Mosaic AI Model Training or custom LLM training on Databricks GPU clusters.
- Proven experience fine-tuning open-source LLMs, preferably Llama-family models, using SFT, LoRA, or QLoRA in real-world projects.
- Strong understanding of fine-tuning, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), continued pretraining, and training from scratch, including cost, performance, and quality trade-offs.
- Experience in large-scale training data preparation, including cleaning, deduplication, labelling, synthetic data generation, and PII removal.
- Knowledge of LLM evaluation, performance optimisation, production deployment, monitoring, and AI governance, including explainability and model risk management.
Consulting and Client-Facing Skills
- Ability to translate business requirements into technical architectures and proof-of-concept (PoC)
plans.
- Experience engaging with CTOs, senior engineering leaders, and client stakeholders.
- Robust communication skills to explain technical solutions, implementation approaches, risks, and trade-offs.
- Experience reviewing RFP responses, technical proposals, and solution presentations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Domain experience in financial services, banking, lending, credit, or insurance.
- Exposure to domain-adapted foundation models and continued pretraining.
- Databricks Machine Learning Professional and/or Generative AI Engineer Associate certification.
- Demonstrable project experience through case studies, GitHub repositories, technical notebooks, publications, or conference presentations.
Engagement Details
- Initial consulting requirement of approximately 18 hours.
- Expected engagement timeframe: early to mid-November 2026.
- Remote, client-facing consulting engagement.
- Potential for further technical guidance or delivery support, subject to the project progressing.
📌 Consultant -Senior Databricks / ML & Gen AI (Kochi)
🏢 G10X
📍 Kochi