Senior AI Engineer, Vice President - Natural Language Processing

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Who We Look For

Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in risk management, big data, mobile and more. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.

We are a leading financial firm specializing in providing innovative solutions to our clients. We are seeking a talented and experienced Senior AI Engineer to join our team and lead efforts in the design and implementation of generative AI solutions. We are specifically looking for someone with hands-on expertise in natural language processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) and a passion to solve hard problems on unique financial datasets. This role will focus on implementing end-to-end solutions in the areas of search and information retrieval (IR); question answering and conversational AI; document summarization; entity, event, and relationship extraction and classification; as well as structured text extraction from documents.

Core Responsibilities:

1. Search and Retrieval:

• Utilize your expertise in language models to improve search and retrieval algorithms.
• Conduct thorough experiments and evaluate different AI models for various use cases.
• Select and implement the most suitable AI models for improving search and retrieval performance

1. Conversational AI:

• Develop conversational AI services using large language models to enable interactions such as question answering and summarization
• Leverage open source language models (LLMs) and/or proprietary models and vendor platforms like Google/Microsoft/OpenAI to effectively solve customer problems
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including UX/UI designers, to deliver exceptional user experiences to stakeholders

1. Model Development and Training:

• Build and train working versions of AI models using the GS NLP platform
• Leverage your knowledge of machine learning techniques to optimize and enhance the performance of the model
• Collaborate with the data engineering team to ensure efficient data pipelines for model training and push innovative deep learning models to production

1. Reusable Patterns, Libraries, and Datasets:

• Identify and create reusable patterns, model catalogs, and datasets to improve efficiency and accelerate development
• Contribute to the company's internal knowledge base by documenting best practices and sharing insights with the team

Requirements:

• Undergraduate/graduate degree in Computer Science or related fields
• Proven experience in hands-on machine learning development, in a financial firm or a similar industry
• Strong expertise in AI models and machine learning techniques, particularly in latest language models
• Experience with language modeling, prompt tuning and engineering, instruction tuning, and/or RLHF
• Experience with AI platforms and frameworks, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, HuggingFace
• Experience with search and retrieval algorithms, conversational AI, and large-scale document AI techniques
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a cross-functional team
• Demonstrated experience in driving business-critical projects using agile methodologies and best practices in software engineering

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

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