Computational Linguist, Generative AI - Sr. Associate
On-site · Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Job Summary
Senior Computational Linguist for Generative AI evaluation and integration of LLM-powered workflows. Role involves designing scalable evaluation processes, managing taxonomy for intents/entities, integrating LLMs with existing conversational AI architectures, developing metrics and guardrails across model correctness and customer experience, maintaining artifact suites for LLMs, ontology design for semantic reasoning, knowledge-graph integration, collaboration with data scientists, software engineers, and business stakeholders, and driving continuous improvement in model performance and data quality for customer-facing applications in financial services.
Required Qualifications
- Master's degree in Computational Linguistics, NLP, Linguistics, or related field
- 2+ experience in Computational Linguistics or NLP applied to chatbot or conversational AI development
- Hands-on experience with Generative AI and Agentic AI frameworks and evaluation (e.g., AutoGen, LangGraph, CrewAI, Sierra)
- Linguistic background in discourse & pragmatics
- Advanced knowledge of conversational AI product development lifecycle — training, design, conversation analysis
- Hands-on experience with LLM integration, prompt engineering, evaluation, and performance monitoring
- Proficient in Python, Git, Linux, and Bash scripting
- NLP/data science libraries: pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, NLTK
- Experience with transformer-based models (e.g., BERT, GPT) — fine-tuning and application
- Experience with generative AI SDKs and frameworks (e.g., OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, LangChain)
- Comfortable with JSONL, CSV, and Jupyter notebook workflows
- Experience with ontologies/taxonomies and knowledge graphs
- Solid understanding of evaluation methodologies including human-AI comparison and red teaming
- Direct experience with financial institutions, financial products, and customer-facing queries
- Chase customer service experience highly desirable
- Strong written communication for documenting experiments, results, and processes
- Experience with hybrid conversational architectures, generative AI, and LLM-driven flow design
- Familiarity with LLM safety, bias, and compliance
- Demonstrated success in a highly matrixed organization
- Awareness of current GenAI trends and evaluation challenges in subjective NLP tasks
- Solve the cold start problem via synthetic data generation for new intents, flows, and low-resource scenarios
Desired Qualifications
- Master's degree in Computational Linguistics, NLP, Linguistics, or related field
- 2+ years of experience in Computational Linguistics or NLP applied to chatbot or conversational AI development
- Hands-on experience with Generative AI and Agentic AI frameworks and evaluation (e.g., AutoGen, LangGraph, CrewAI, Sierra)
- Linguistic background in discourse & pragmatics
- Advanced knowledge of conversational AI product development lifecycle — training, design, conversation analysis
- Hands-on experience with LLM integration, prompt engineering, evaluation, and performance monitoring
- Proficient in Python, Git, Linux, and Bash scripting
- Experience with NLP/data science libraries: pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, NLTK
- Experience with transformer-based models (e.g., BERT, GPT) — fine-tuning and application
- Experience with generative AI SDKs and frameworks (e.g., OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, LangChain)
- Comfortable with JSONL, CSV, and Jupyter notebook workflows
- Experience with ontologies/taxonomies and knowledge graphs
- Solid understanding of evaluation methodologies including human-AI comparison and red teaming
- Direct experience with financial institutions, financial products, and customer-facing queries
- Chase customer service experience highly desirable
- Strong written communication for documenting experiments, results, and processes
- Experience with hybrid conversational architectures, generative AI, and LLM-driven flow design
- Familiarity with LLM safety, bias, and compliance
- Demonstrated success in a highly matrixed organization
- Awareness of current GenAI trends and evaluation challenges in subjective NLP tasks
- Solve the cold start problem via synthetic data generation for new intents, flows, and low-resource scenarios
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