Applied Scientist Jobs in Austin, TX

Entity: Oracle America, Inc.

Job Duties: Invent, implement and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning and/or specific domain industry algorithms and systems. Build prototypes and explore conceptually new solutions. Work collaboratively with science, engineering, and product teams to identify customer needs in order to create and implement solutions, promote innovation and drive model implementations. Applies data science capabilities and research findings to create and implement solutions to scale. Responsible for developing new intelligence around core products and services through applied research on behalf of our customers. Develops models, prototypes, and experiments that pave the way for innovative products and services. Build cloud services that work out of the box for enterprises, e.g. decision support, anomaly detection, forecasting and recommendations), natural language processing (NLP), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Time Series, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Machine Learning (ML), and Computer Vision (CV). Design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing risk, profitability, and customer experience. Conversant on ethical problems in consideration of sciences. Identify data science use cases and design scalable solutions that can be built as a feature of the product/service. Contributes to writing production model code. Work with Software Engineering teams to deploy them in production. Set up environment needed to run experiments for all projects. Set up distributed environments. Design and implement algorithms, train models, and deploy both to production to validate premises and achieve goals. Design and execute offline/online experiments and model performance testing. Work with large, complex data sets. Solve difficult, non-routine analysis problems, applying advanced analytical methods as needed. Address business/customer problems and questions using statistical and machine learning techniques to achieve business goals and KPI's. Come up with innovative solutions to address tradeoffs or challenges faced by team. Stay up-to-date with research and trends regarding latest algorithms in ML or other industry/domain space. Perform research in emerging areas, which may include efficient neural network development including quantization, pruning, compression and neural architecture search, as well as novel differentiable compute primitives. May perform other duties as assigned. May telecommute. (385.29569)

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: Employer will accept a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field and 4 years of experience in the job offered or in a computer-related occupation. Position requires:

• Deep Learning, Generative AI, LLM;
• Python, C and C++;
• Dataset design and curation at scale, and Synthetic data generation;
• OpenCV, Git, and HuggingFace;
• PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Keras;
• Safety and Responsible AI evaluation and red teaming;
• LLM evaluation and benchmarking, LLM-as-a-Judge calibration and validation;
• Reinforcement Learning - DPO, PPO, KTO, and GRPO;
• VLM, Diffusion models, image generation, VLM as a judge evaluation;
• Datamining and statistical concepts;
• ML libraries, scikit-learn and Pandas;
• Statistical models for Machine Learning solutions, regression, classification and clustering;
• Distributed systems;
• Production operations and troubleshooting; and,
• Technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams and presentations.