Posted 2 months ago
Senior Data Scientist (NLP)
Veltrix Labs
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Experience
- 5–9 yrs
- Workplace
- Hybrid, Bengaluru
- Engagement
- Full-time
About the role
Veltrix Labs builds document-intelligence products for Indian lenders and insurers from its Bengaluru office. We are hiring a senior data scientist to lead our work on language models for financial document understanding, including retrieval pipelines, fine-tuning of open-weight models and rigorous evaluation against human benchmarks. The role owns the research agenda for a product line, works directly with two large lending clients on accuracy commitments, and mentors a team of four. We expect published or shipped evidence of serious NLP work, comfort presenting to non-technical stakeholders, and honest handling of model limitations. Hybrid, HSR Layout.
What you will own
- Set the research agenda for financial document understanding
- Fine-tune and evaluate open-weight language models against accuracy benchmarks
- Design retrieval and grounding pipelines that hold up on client data
- Mentor four data scientists through review and pairing
- Present accuracy commitments and trade-offs to client stakeholders
- Convert research outcomes into production plans with engineering
Qualification
Postgraduate
Skills
- Python
- Natural Language Processing
- PyTorch
- Statistical Modelling
- Generative AI
- Prompt Engineering
Veltrix Labs
Software Products & SaaS · 201-500 employees · Pune
Veltrix Labs builds a subscription billing and revenue-recognition platform used by around 900 software and services businesses in India, Southeast Asia and the Gulf. The company is headquartered in Baner, Pune, with a small customer-success team in Mumbai. The stack is Java and PostgreSQL on AWS with a React front end, and every engineer ships to production within their first month. Veltrix promotes from within for engineering-management roles, publishes salary bands internally, and runs a documented on-call rota with compensatory leave.
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