Lead AI/ML & NLP Consultant

Job Title: Lead AI/ML & NLP Consultant

Experience : 7+ years

Location : Remote

Mode: 6 month Contract + ext.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end design, architecture, and implementation of complex AI/ML and Natural Language Processing (NLP) models, focusing on intelligent automation, document processing, and data extraction solutions.
• Guide the technical team in selecting and implementing the most appropriate AI/ML algorithms, frameworks, and tools for business objectives.
• Maintain deep expertise in the latest advancements in AI, LLMs, and NLP techniques
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for international clients (requiring flexible UST time working hours).
• Proactively interact and build strong professional rapport with client stakeholders, business analysts, and technical teams.
• Translate ambiguous business challenges and client requirements into clear, comprehensive technical specifications and project roadmaps.
• Lead the production deployment of AI/ML models, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security in live environments.
• Be accountable for handling production support issues and escalations in a live, mission-critical environment, including troubleshooting and performance optimization of deployed models.
• Establish MLOps best practices, including continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), monitoring, and retraining pipelines.
• Lead, mentor, and guide a team of AI/ML Engineers and Data Scientists, fostering a culture of technical excellence and accountability.
• Conduct technical reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards, documentation, and best practices across the team.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience: 7+ years of progressive experience in developing and deploying AI/ML and NLP solutions.
• Technical Domain Expertise (Must Have):
• Deep, hands-on experience with modern Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, including but not limited to LLMs/Transformers, Named Entity Recognition (NER), Topic Modeling, Text Classification, and Document Understanding.
• Expertise in Machine Learning (ML) frameworks (e.g., Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn).
• Proven experience in designing and working with large, complex datasets for model training and validation.
• Production & MLOps Experience (Must Have):
• Demonstrated experience in handling production support in live environments, including debugging, monitoring, and maintaining high-availability AI services.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) for deploying and scaling ML models.
• Leadership & Communication (Must Have):
• Proven ability to lead and guide a technical team.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; demonstrated experience in client-facing roles, including presenting technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Job Type: Contractual / Temporary
Contract length: 6 months

Pay: ₹150,000.00 - ₹170,000.00 per month

Application Question(s):

• Do you have 7+ years of experience in AI/ML ?
• Do you have experience in NLP ?
• Do you have experience in Production & MLOps ?

Work Location: Remote