Data Scientist, Senior Associate

Overview

Senior Associate data scientist role in State Street’s GenAI Center of Excellence, focused on applied research and experimentation to advance LLM capabilities through model fine-tuning and evaluation.

What you'll do

• Design and implement experiments and fine-tuning workflows such as LoRA and QLoRA.
• Benchmark and evaluate LLMs, including performance analysis and anomaly detection.
• Support data curation, preprocessing, and preparation for model training and evaluation.
• Document experiment results, insights, and methodologies and maintain internal knowledge repositories.
• Participate in model review sessions and apply state-of-the-art evaluation methodologies.
• Stay current with advances in generative models and contribute ideas to frontier model research.

What you'll need

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
• 0–7 years overall experience in IT.
• 3+ years experience in applied machine learning/data science, including internships or academic research.
• Proficiency in Python programming.
• Hands-on experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Basic understanding of LLM architectures, fine-tuning techniques, and Python-based model training pipelines.
• Familiarity with evaluation metrics for generative models and analyzing model results using Python.
• Familiarity with cloud AI/ML services (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and MLOps practices.