** Extensive hands-on development experience in Generative AI projects**

** Please note this is not an entry-level position but if you have strong hands-on projects in GenAI, please apply**

** This role is flexible within proximity to a CGI office in Toronto to accommodate a hybrid work model**

The Emerging Technologies team in Global Technology and Operations (GTO) Canada at CGI is a trusted Data, Cloud and AI advisor and go-to implementation partner for our global clients' Data and Advanced Analytics needs. We're an entrepreneurial team that is on a continuous mission to position CGI as the best-in-class AI partner and develop new and exciting opportunities in latest technologies. Our capabilities in Generative AI are constantly evolving with current focus being on GenAI agents and mitigating risks associated with GenAI.

Your future duties and responsibilities

Your future duties and responsibilities

As a Data Scientist - Generative AI on this team your responsibilities will include:

• Building GenAI bases solutions for CGI and for clients, including Agentic frameworks

• Evaluating quality of output of GenAI solutions, fine-tuning, and productionizing AI solutions

• Building Large Language Models-based and NLP-based solutions for CGI clients by researching the best in class techniques and being a self-starter

• Data Engineer and Prompt Engineer the LLM solutions end-to-end to enhance end user experience

• Being "hands-on" to build, tune, deploy and monitor (MLOps) robust Machine Learning solutions built on RAG and latest techniques

• Fine-tune LLMs with latest cost optimized PEFT techniques like LoRA, QLoRA

• Mitigate risks and optimize costs associated with choosing a GenAI architecture solution and advise clients on best practices in GenAI

• Strategically and intensely collaborating with innovation team and the client stakeholders and account teams to explore key GenAI solutions

• Collaborate with other Data Scientists and Data Engineers in a client engagement setting

• Implementing proof of concepts to show value and then package and scale to full ML solutions at scale on both on-prem and cloud environments

This role comes with sometimes intense delivery expectations churning out POVs for clients in a short period of time and then going on to implement a full-scale production solution ensuring right user experience and adoption.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

• Minimum 5 years of stay or residency in Canada
• Hands-on work experience with implementing and productionizing Generative AI solutions with at least 2-5 different projects or at least 1 project that was deployed in production
• Prompt Engineering experience on tools such as Azure Promptflow, Amazon Bedrock, Azure AI Studio would be ideal
• Experience building LLM-based solution on Azure, AWS or GCP
• Experience fine-tuning LLMs with latest techniques
• Experience with multiple models including open source models deployment (LLaMa, Mistral et al)
• Experience with multiple Vector Databases
• 5 or more years "hands-on" working experience delivering diverse Advanced Analytics solutions
• Hands-on expertise in building and deploying code in Python, SQL and major programming languages with at least one major Cloud platform Azure, AWS, GCP
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, or a related field and/or equivalent experience

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

Additional desired qualifications

• Experience with MSFT 365 Copilot, Copilot plugins and connectors, Copilot Studio
• Experience with agentic frameworks like Crew ai, Autogen etc.

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Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

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