Who You Are Must-Haves BSc in computer science, math, physics, or a related field 7+ years of experience as an AI Researcher/NLP Researcher/Applied Scientist, including experience leading or managing research teams Proven track record of building and managing high-performing AI research / Data Science teams. Solid grounding in core machine and deep learning concepts and techniques, data challenges (imbalance, scaling etc.), and evaluation. Demonstrated expertise in applying LLMs - prompt engineering and prompt tuning (few-shot, chain-of-thought, tool/function calling, routing), task adaptation (instruction/SFT, PEFT/LoRA, DPO/RLHF), retrieval-augmented generation, rigorous evaluation and production deployment with appropriate safety, latency, and cost controls. Self-learner, initiator, able to quickly learn new technologies Experience in NLP - a significant