Data Scientist
RealPage, Inc. · Richardson, TX · 1 wk ago
RemoteRemoteEngineering$116k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Develop, evaluate, and deploy predictive and generative models for real production use cases
- Perform feature engineering and data preparation for modeling workflows
- Translate business and product questions into analytical solutions
- Build and maintain LLM powered features and services
- Develop retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipelines using embeddings and vector databases
- Integrate LLMs with APIs and internal tools using structured function calling
- Finetune foundation models with parameter efficient approaches (e.g., LoRA)
- Evaluate model quality, detect hallucinations, and implement safety guardrails
- Use synthetic data to improve model performance, testing, and fairness
- Optimize inference performance and cost across different model providers
- Deploy and operate machine learning and GenAI models in production
- Build CI/CD pipelines for models and data workflows
- Monitor performance, data quality, and model drift
- Design versioning, rollback, and retraining strategies
- Partner with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure reliability and scalability
- Build low latency data pipelines and real time decisioning systems
- Work with streaming data and event driven architectures
- Support systems with strict uptime and response time requirements
- Contribute to feature stores used for both real time and batch inference
Qualifications
- 3–6 years of experience in data science, machine learning, or applied AI
- A degree (Master's or better preferred) in Computer Science, Data Science or related fields
- Strong Python and SQL skills
- Handson experience deploying models into production
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Experience with modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikitlearn)
- Exposure to LLMs, embeddings, and GenAI workflows
- Ability to communicate clearly with engineers, product managers, and nontechnical partners
Nice to Have
- Experience with streaming data systems
- Experience operating models at scale
- Knowledge of MLOps tools and observability practices
- Experience building AI solutions that support customer facing products