Data Scientist w Generative AI (AWS Bedrock)

NOTE: we do not work with H1-b visas at this time.

Data Scientist w Generative AI (with AI, ML, and LLM not ML Ops)

3 days each week onsite

Location is Seattle, WA

Target rate: $100-$120/hr. DOE, all-inclusive

Start is immediate

Duration is twelve months, will extend

This is a backfill role. Personality, personality, personality must be amazing.

We cannot work with dry people and/or indifferent people.

We need excited, enthusiastic, go getters!

Updated JD + orig one below:

Job Title: Data Scientist/Applied Scientist

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced Data Scientist/Applied Scientist to develop and implement cutting-edge machine learning solutions for our travel and events platform. This role will focus on building scalable AI-driven solutions to enhance customer experience and drive business value.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement advanced machine learning models and algorithms to solve complex business problems
• Build and optimize large-scale natural language processing solutions
• Create efficient data pipelines and scalable architectures for AI applications
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with various teams including Travel Operations, Supplier Category Teams, and Travel Technology team to support data-driven decision making and improve business processes.

Required Qualifications:

• Master's in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field
• 7+ years of experience in applied machine learning and deep learning
• Strong expertise in Python and ML frameworks
• Extensive experience with Large Language Models and transformer architectures
• Proven track record of deploying ML models to production
• Strong proficiency with AWS services (Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda, ECS, S3)
• Experience with MLOps practices and tools

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) architectures
• Knowledge of vector databases and semantic search
• Expertise in prompt engineering and fine-tuning language models
• Experience with containerization and microservices architecture
• Background in travel industry or related domains
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

We're looking for candidates who are passionate about AI innovation and have a proven

track record of delivering production-ready machine learning solutions

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Original JD:

• Build and deploy Generative AI solutions using Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, and other AWS AI/ML services.
• Evaluate and integrate foundation models (Claude, Titan, Mistral, LLaMA, etc.) available in Bedrock for enterprise use cases (chatbots, summarization, RAG, etc.).
• Fine-tune and prompt engineer large language models (LLMs) for domain-specific needs.
• Work on GenAI pipelines: data preprocessing, prompt tuning, retrieval augmentation (RAG), and model evaluation.
• Optimize cost and performance of GenAI workloads in the AWS ecosystem.
• Collaborate with product and data teams to design AI-driven applications.

NOTE: we do not work with H1-b visas at this time.