Senior AI Data Scientist (GenAI/RAG) - $80 per day (Remote, Contract, Long-term)

Title: Senior AI Data Scientist (GenAI/RAG) – Long-Term Contract

Location: India (Remote) | Workplace: Remote | Type: Contract | Expect some overlap with US working hours

About the role

ExtraMint AI is hiring a hands-on Senior AI Data Scientist for a long-term, 100% remote engagement supporting a global enterprise client’s AI programs. You will take business problem statements through POC and prototype, then package validated solutions for the delivery team.

What you’ll do

• Convert business problems into AI/ML approaches and run POCs
• Experiment with and tune GenAI/RAG components (chunking, embeddings, retrieval, prompts) and evaluate the results
• Build prototypes and hand over validated solutions as clean, reusable artifacts
• Work on Azure AI Foundry and Databricks
• Collaborate with the product owner, AI/ML engineers and architects
• Mentor junior team members

What you bring

• Senior, hands-on data science background (this is not a people-management role)
• Production exposure to GenAI/LLM and RAG solutions
• Strong Python and ML/statistical modeling
• Experience taking solutions from POC to prototype
• Clear communication and business sense

Good to have: Azure AI Foundry/Azure OpenAI, Databricks, model evaluation and experimentation frameworks, MLOps, industrial/energy/manufacturing domain