ST Global Tech LLC
Lead AI Engineer / Data Scientist - Local to CA Only
Contract · In Office · Santa Clara, California (USA)
Posted Sep 25, 2026
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- Lead AI Engineer / Data Scientist
- Location – Santa Clara, CA 5 Days - Locals Only
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- Must Have Skills
- Skill 1 – Design end-to-end ML/LLM and agentic solutions, from problem framing and data strategy through to deployment and monitoring
- Skill 2 – Architect agentic systems: multi-step, tool-using, and multi-agent workflows: including orchestration, tool/function integration, memory, and guardrails
- Skill 3 – Work with foundation models including Claude and other LLMs: prompting, fine-tuning, evaluation, and integration
- Key Responsibilities
- Solution Design & Technical Leadership:
- • Design end-to-end ML/LLM and agentic solutions, from problem framing and data strategy through to deployment and monitoring.
- • Architect agentic systems: multi-step, tool-using, and multi-agent workflows: including orchestration, tool/function integration, memory, and guardrails.
- • Own the technical architecture for solutions: model selection, fine-tuning approach, agent/orchestration design, serving strategy, API design, and infrastructure footprint.
- • Lead and mentor a team of data scientists and developers, break complex, ambiguous customer requirements into structured project plans with clear milestones and deliverables. AI/ML
- Required Qualifications:
- • Bachelor's & Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- • Experience in agentic frameworks and protocols (e.g., LangGraph, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI, MCP) and with RAG and tool-use patterns.
- • Familiarity with MLOps tooling (experiment tracking, CI/CD for ML, model registries, monitoring).
- • Experience with distributed training and inference optimization (quantization, batching, GPU utilization).
- • Exposure to containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Technical Frameworks & Toolkit: Deep Learning frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, JAX; PyTorch Lightning. GenAI & fine-tuning frameworks: Hugging Face Transformers, PEFT (LoRA/QLoRA), TRL, Accelerate, DeepSpeed, bitsandbytes, Axolotl, Unsloth; vLLM / TGI / Ollama for serving; LangChain, LlamaIndex for RAG and orchestration. Agentic AI frameworks & protocols: Claude Agent SDK, Anthropic / OpenAI SDKs, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP); tool/function calling and multi-agent patterns. Computer vision: OpenCV, Detectron2, Segment Anything (SAM); image/video pipelines. Forecasting & optimization: stats models, Prophet, GluonTS, Darts, scikit-learn; optimization/solver tooling (e.g., OR-Tools, SciPy, PuLP, Gurobi/CVXPY). MLOps & infra
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Lead AI Engineer / Data Scientist - Local to CA Only
ST Global Tech LLC
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