AI Applications Engineer

Company Description

Come and join our small and growing data science team which includes SMEs with exceptional industry experience. The team is at the heart of a newly funded initiative to expand globally, enabled by GenAI and Azure AI services. The ideal candidate strives for rigor, following best practices, continuously learning and developing their skills, and has a data centric approach to solving challenges combined with a business-driven development mindset.

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Job Description

In this role, you will get to:

• Develop and deploy AI applications using Azure Machine Learning to address various business challenges, such as, extracting and structuring text data from product images, inferring product attributes, find product matches using multimodal vector search, and automating computer vision tasks.
• Design and validate AI workflows using various prompt engineering strategies, functional calling, retrieval augmented generation using millions of products, and to build robust AI applications.
•  Integrate AI workflows into existing business processes by working closely with cross-disciplinary development teams to gather APIs specifications.
• Continuously improve your AI skills and technical stack, staying updated with advancements in LLMs, AI orchestration tools, prompt engineering, and best practices.
• Document development processes to ensure reproducibility and compliance with best practices.
• Collaborate with product leaders and managers, software developers, DevOps, and system architects to translate ideas into robust AI solutions.
• Communicate complex AI concepts in a clear and engaging way throughout the development cycle to non-technical key stakeholders

Qualifications

We would love to meet someone who has:

• Strong knowledge of Python and relevant Azure AI services (azure-ai-ml, openai, promptflow).
• Minimum 1 year experience in relevant positions or study programs with particular focus on using LLMs for building AI applications.
• Strong knowledge of writing clean and well documented code.
• Strong knowledge of using version control systems.
• Strong English and communication skills.
• Experience in collaborating with, and presenting to, internal and external stakeholders with different levels of understanding of data science.

Additional Information

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

About NIQ

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

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NIQ is committed to reflecting the diversity of the clients, communities, and markets we measure within our own workforce. We exist to count everyone and are on a mission to systematically embed inclusion and diversity into all aspects of our workforce, measurement, and products. We enthusiastically invite candidates who share that mission to join us. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class. Our global non-discrimination policy covers these protected classes in every market in which we do business worldwide. Learn more about how we are driving diversity and inclusion in everything we do by visiting the NIQ News Center: https://nielseniq.com/global/en/news-center/diversity-inclusion