Duration: FTE Location: Remote Overview Turnberry Solutions is a business and technology consulting firm that believes brilliant strategy only matters when paired with excellent execution. Through a deep understanding of each client's challenges and opportunities, we deliver tailored solutions and premium talent for sustainable, meaningful, and fearless growth. With offerings in business excellence, digital design and build, platforms of innovation, and AI, data, and insights, we set the best teams, technologies, and solutions in motion. We are building a suite of AI-powered tools designed to drive innovation across our business and transform how our teams work together. We are looking to add a Data Scientist to the team to design and develop Generative AI applications. This role will be 75% remote with occasional time required each month in the office to meet with the team. Responsibilities • AI/ML Solution Development: • Build and operationalize machine learning pipelines using Python (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn) for classification, summarization, embeddings, and semantic search use cases • LLM Engineering and Prompt Design: • Develop solutions leveraging ChatGPT-3.5 and GPT-4.0, integrating OpenAI APIs via LangChain and LangSmith • Design structured prompt templates, dynamic chaining logic, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) flows using vector databases such as Pinecone or FAISS • AI Infrastructure and Deployment: • Deploy models using Azure Machine Learning (AML), MLflow, and Docker • Configure AKS or Azure Container Apps for scalable inference • Apply CI/CD via Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions for ML workflows • Model Finetuning and Optimization: • Finetune foundation models using domain-specific datasets • Apply techniques such as LoRA, PEFT, and quantization to optimize performance and latency • Data and Feature Engineering: • Build data ingestion and transformation pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Pandas, and Spark Design custom feature stores and embedding pipelines using Hugging Face Transformers • Observability and Evaluation: • Implement model monitoring with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Azure App Insights • Track performance, bias, and drift using custom evaluation dashboards • Security and Compliance: • Enforce secure data handling practices, PII redaction, and token-level access to AI APIs • Follow enterprise MLOps security standards and responsible AI guidelines Qualifications • Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, Data Science, or a related technical field • 5+ years of experience building and deploying production-grade ML models and APIs • 2+ years of hands-on experience with large language model (LLM) integration using OpenAI, Cohere, Anthropic, or open-source models (e.g., LLaMA, Falcon, Mistral) • Proficiency in Python, with strong knowledge of PyTorch, Transformers (Hugging Face), and LangChain-based app development • Experience working with cloud-native ML services and MLOps stacks on Azure (AML, Blob Storage, Azure Functions, App Services) • Familiarity with RESTful API development, asynchronous processing (e.g., Celery, FastAPI), and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) • Solid grounding in modern ML techniques (vector search, attention models, embeddings), with practical knowledge of evaluation metrics and deployment best practices • Strong debugging, documentation, and collaboration skills in a hybrid Agile/Scrum environment The salary range for this role is $150,000 to $170,000 or the hourly equivalent. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, Turnberry Solutions offers benefits such as a comprehensive healthcare package (medical, dental, vision), disability and group term life insurance, health and flexible spending accounts, a utilization bonus, 401(k) with match, flexible time off for salaried employees, parental leave for salaried employees, and flexible work arrangements (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with Turnberry, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. At Turnberry, inclusion is one of our core values. We are committed to creating a positive and connected work environment for all and are fully invested in and focused on hiring and growing a diverse team of high performers. We believe that uniqueness in ideas, experiences, and backgrounds make us a better Turnberry: Turnberry is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of age, ancestry, family medical or genetic information, gender identity and expression, marital, military, or veteran status; national and ethnic origin; physical or mental disability; political affiliation; pregnancy; race; religion; sex; sexual orientation; and any other protected characteristics. Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) Turnberry will provide reasonable accommodation with our application process upon request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require accommodation assistance in this application process, please send an email to our Human Resources department at turnberryhr@turnberrysolutions.com.