Engineering

Director - Machine Learning

Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Work Type: Full Time


Responsibilities:

About Clear Demand:  Clear Demand is the leader in AI-driven price and promotion optimization for retailers. Our platform transforms pricing from a challenge to a competitive advantage, helping retailers make smarter, data-backed decisions across the entire pricing lifecycle. By integrating competitive intelligence, pricing rules, and demand modelling, we enable retailers to maximize profit, drive growth, and enhance customer loyalty — all while maintaining pricing compliance and brand integrity. With Clear Demand, retailers stay ahead of the market, automate complex pricing decisions, and unlock new opportunities for growth. 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Vision & strategy – Set the AI/ML centric tech & product strategy for the organization. Lead & inspire the organization with it.
  • People management - Lead a team of software engineers, DS, DE, MLE, ML/DS managers in the design, development, and delivery of AI enabled software solutions.
  • Program management - Strong program leader that has run program management functions to efficiently deliver ML projects to production and manage its operations.
  • Work with Business stakeholders & customers in the Retail Business domain to execute the product vision using the power of AI/ML.
  • Product Management - Scope out the business requirements by performing necessary data-driven statistical analysis.
  • Set goals and, objectives using proper business metrics and constraints.
  • AI/ML tech management - Conduct exploratory analysis on large volumes of data, understand the statistical shape, and use the right visuals to drive & present the analysis. 
  • Analyse and extract relevant information from large amounts of data and derive useful insights on a big-data scale.
  • Create labelling manuals and work with labellers to manage ground truth data and perform feature engineering as needed.
  • Work with software engineering teams, data engineers and ML operations team (Data Labellers, Auditors) to deliver production systems with both deep learning & traditional ML models.
  • Select the right model, train, validate, test, regularize, optimise and keep improving multi-modal, text and traditional ML models.
  • Architecturally optimize the models for efficient inference, reduce latency, improve throughput, reduce memory footprint without sacrificing model accuracy.
  • Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation.
  • Create and enhance model monitoring system that could measure data distribution shifts, alert when model performance degrades in production.
  • Streamline ML operations by envisioning human in the loop kind of workflows, collect necessary labels/audit information from these workflows/processes, that can feed into improved training and algorithm development process.
  • Maintain multiple versions of the model and ensure the controlled release of models.
  • Manage and mentor data scientists, providing guidance on best practices in data science methodologies and project execution.
  • Lead cross-functional teams in the delivery of data-driven projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and timelines.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to define project objectives, deliverables, and timelines.

Qualifications & Experience:

  • MS/PhD from reputed institution with a delivery focus.
  • 10+ years of experience in data science, with a proven track record of delivering impactful data-driven solutions.
  • Delivered AI/ML products/features to production.
  • Seen the complete cycle from Scoping & analysis, Data Ops, Modelling, MLOps, Post deployment analysis.
  • Experts in Supervised and Semi-Supervised learning techniques. Hands-on in ML Frameworks - Pytorch or TensorFlow. 
  • Hands-on in Deep learning models. Developed and fine-tuned Transformer based models. (Input output metric, Sampling technique)
  • Deep understanding of Regression(log-log regression), Transformers, GNN models and its related math & internals.
  • Exhibit high coding standards and create production quality code with maximum efficiency.
  • Hands-on in Data analysis & Data engineering skills involving Sqls, PySpark etc.
  • Exposure to ML & Data services on the cloud – AWS, Azure, GCP Understanding internals of computer hardware - CPU, GPU, TPU is a plus.
  • Can leverage the power of hardware accelerators to optimize the model execution —PyTorch Glow, cuDNN, is a plus


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