Senior Data Scientist / ML Engineer (NLP & LLMs)
Pay rate: $95 $110/hr on C2C
Location: On-Site (New York, NY Midtown Manhattan Office)
Duration: 12 Months
Engagement: Corp-to-Corp (C2C)
Work authorization: USC, GC, H1B
Client: Global financial data and media company (name confidential until shortlisting - standard US staffing practice)
What you will do:
- Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines for financial documents and news search engines.
- Fine-tune open-source models (Llama, Mistral) on proprietary financial terminal data.
- Collaborate with on-floor algorithmic trading desks to optimize model latency and inference speed.
What you will bring:
- 6+ years in Machine Learning and Data Science with an emphasis on NLP and LLM fine-tuning.
- Proficient in Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain, LlamaIndex, and vector databases (Pinecone/Milvus).
- Solid understanding of transformer architectures, prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, and model evaluation.
- Experience working directly with on-prem GPU clusters and low-latency financial feeds.
Interview process: screening call with our recruitment team, then client interview rounds (video).
Posted November 2026. Apply with your resume at - mention the role title. No fee is ever charged to candidates.
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