Looking for Sr. Data Scientist / Lead // Charlotte, NC // Hybrid Position

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Hi  ,

Greetings from Pantar Solutions Inc 

Hope you are doing well!!!

This is Manvitha from   Pantar Solutions Inc . We have a very urgent opening with one of our premier clients and an immediate interview schedule for qualified resources, based on their availability. We are looking for someone who can start this project immediately. Please go through the below requirement and let me know your concern

Candidate LinkedIn Should be Created in 2019 or Before 2019 Only.

Title: Sr. Data Scientist / Lead 

Location: Charlotte, NC (Hybrid Tues and Thurs of each week onsite)

Start Date 9/2/2025

End Date  1/30/2026

Required experience

• Hands-on experience with LLMs, including prompt engineering, fine-tuning, or agentic
• architectures (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, etc.).
• Strong programming skills in Python, with experience in building scalable ML/AI applications.
• Model evaluation expertise for LLM-based systems, including designing metrics and running A/B
• tests or offline experiments.
• Python
• LangChain / LangGraph / CrewAI / AutoGen (any relevant)
• Hugging Face Transformers
• Vector DBs (e.g., FAISS, Weaviate, Pinecone)
• Git, VS Code, and cloud platforms (GCP preferred)

Job Description: 

• Contribute to the development of a Knowledge Assistant for the Pro & Services organization, with a
• focus on natural language understanding and agentic workflows.
• Build, evaluate, and iterate on LLM-powered agents to support task execution, reasoning, and
• retrieval across structured and unstructured data.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and other data scientists to integrate
• intelligent systems into customer and associate-facing platforms.
• Own model evaluation and validation pipelines, especially for LLM and RAG workflows, including
• performance tracking and ablation studies.
• Write clean, production-grade Python code and contribute to reusable components and pipelines.
• Apply critical thinking and analytical problem-solving to identify patterns, define rules, and
• optimize agent behaviors.

Preferred Experience :

• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and knowledge graphs, vector Databases.
• Retail or digital experience
• Designing custom evaluation pipelines for hallucination detection, factual consistency, and user
• relevance.
• Familiarity with frameworks like TruLens, Ragas, Promptfoo, or ReAct-style evaluation loops.
• Implementing guardrails to ensure safety, compliance, or brand alignment in LLM outputs.
• Prior exposure to PhD-level research or applied LLM work in industry or academia.

Disqualifiers :

• Generic ML experience without any LLM, agentic, or applied AI work.
• Heavy reliance on low-code/no-code ML platforms without demonstrated software engineering capability.
• Lack of hands-on involvement in end-to-end model deployment or evaluation.

Team environment : 

• The candidate will join a tight-knit, cross-functional AI team focused on building LLM-powered
• capabilities for Pro and Services use cases. The team includes Data Scientists, AI Engineers and a
• AI Product Manager
• The environment is collaborative and fast-paced, with strong product orientation, a culture of rapid
• experimentation, and close alignment with business stakeholders. Candidates should be comfortable with ambiguity, quick pivots, and high-impact deliverables.

 

 

Any Additional Details:

• Ideal for someone passionate about pushing the boundaries of LLM applications in real-world settings.
• There's significant opportunity to shape foundational tools that will power experiences for Pro
• customers and store associates.

Thanks & Regards..

Manvitha | Pantar Solutions Inc.

D: +1 704-569-5020 Ext 221

Email: manvith...@pantarsolutions.com

Linkedin : linkedin.com/in/manvitha-kamuni-13548620b

1908 Cox Rd, Weddington , NC 28104