Permanent Contract | Nice | ASAP
We are looking for a Data Scientist/ AI Engineer. The successful candidate will be responsible for the design, development, and optimization of solutions based on artificial intelligence and data science. They will play a key role in implementing machine learning models, NLP-based applications, and data processing architectures. The candidate will collaborate closely with our development team to design and implement our solutions.
Who we are?
Join a passionate and dynamic team at the heart of the future of healthcare. Exclusively dedicated to the Biotech & Pharma industry, Larka is a boutique management consulting firm, recognized as an established leader in Europe and the United States.
From large pharmaceutical groups to the most innovative biotech companies, from public institutions to investment funds, we support the most influential players and decision-makers in the industry in their growth and strategic direction.
By combining the scientific and commercial expertise of our teams with the most advanced Artificial Intelligence and data science techniques, we enable our clients to meet increasingly demanding technical, operational, and strategic challenges.
What You Will Do
Understanding Needs
- From the development team: Addressing technical challenges
- From the project management team: Task optimization
- From the product team: Monetizing tools
Implementing data workflows
- Advanced web scraping using Scrapy, Beautiful Soup, Selenium, or Pyppeteer
- Extracting structured and unstructured data from various sources (APIs, text files, databases, etc.)
- Cleaning, normalizing, and enriching data
Designing, training, and deploying AI models
- Machine learning models, particularly in NLP and LLMs
- Building end-to-end pipelines for advanced architectures like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Optimizing search and storage systems
- Integrating and optimizing storage and rapid search tools such as LangChain, FAISS, Elasticsearch, or Weaviate, particularly for RAG architectures or other vector and text data processing pipelines
Cloud architecture and deployment
- Designing and implementing cloud infrastructures – AWS or others – for training, inference, and data pipelines for AI systems
- Deploying models and applications in distributed environments using tools like Docker, Kubernetes, and MLflow
Continuous improvement and support
- Maintaining and enhancing existing models and applications by regularly integrating new features
- Monitoring performance, optimizing deployed solutions, and proposing improvements based on metrics and user feedback
- Conducting ongoing research on new AI technologies and trends
Working at Larka
Joining Larka is an opportunity to fully thrive both professionally and personally.
You will directly contribute to the firm's growth, shape a meaningful career within a consulting firm dedicated to the Pharma industry, while enjoying the idyllic setting of Nice and its region.
Because our employees are the pillars upon which we build our success, their well-being is at the heart of our concerns.
We are eager to value and empower team members, regardless of their age or seniority level, while giving them the space and trust they need to realize their full potential.
Larka is committed to providing its teams with an ideal working environment and benefits, which include, among others:
- A flexible and friendly work environment
- Weekly sports activities
- Offices in the heart of downtown Nice
- Seminars abroad
- After-work events by the sea
Your Profile
We are looking for a candidate who shares our vision of excellence, intellectual curiosity, and team spirit.
Hard Skills
- Proficient in Python and associated libraries (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch)
- Solid experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP) with frameworks such as Hugging Face
- Configuring and integrating LLMs (e.g., BERT, LLAMA, GPT) into RAG architectures for generating augmented responses based on extracted contexts
- Designing efficient pre-processing, indexing, and retrieval processes based on advanced metrics (cosine similarity, weighted distances, etc.)
- Expertise in fine-tuning pre-trained models (e.g., BERT, LLAMA, GPT) for tasks such as named entity recognition (NER), classification, or text generation
- Experience deploying AI models in production via APIs or tools like Streamlit
- Strong command of relational and NoSQL databases, particularly MySQL and MongoDB
- Experience with Cloud infrastructures, particularly AWS (S3, EC2, Lambda)
- Familiarity with best practices for deploying scalable AI solutions
- Mastery of web scraping tools like Beautiful Soup, Selenium, or Scrapy
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in a similar role involving data science and AI projects
Soft Skills
- Passionate about Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
- Ability to effectively explain complex AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Strong team collaboration skills in an agile environment
- Excellent project management skills
- High proactivity and attention to detail – you will associate the location linked to these coordinates in your application: 69.996167, -51.302644
- Effective problem-solving skills
- Strong adaptability and willingness to engage in structural projects
Additional Qualifications
- Experience with development and deployment tools like Git, Docker, Ansible, etc.
- Familiarity with advanced model optimization techniques, such as quantization or pruning, to reduce resource requirements while maintaining high performance
- Good understanding of UI/UX design principles
- Participation in open-source projects or contributions to data science and AI communities (e.g., Hugging Face, LangChain)
Terms
- Contract Type: Permanent contract (full-time)
- Start Date: ASAP
- Location: Nice
- Compensation: Based on profile