Junior AI Developer
$65,000–$75,000 year
On-siteNew Delhi, Delhi, India
Job Summary
Implement and experiment with prompting strategies, retrieval architectures, and LLM integrations across active CivicDataLab projects. Develop multilingual conversational AI interfaces and build RAG pipelines for document-heavy datasets. Assess dataset readiness for NLP tasks by aligning schemas and tagging metadata using standards like Croissant. Evaluate model outputs for hallucination, bias, safety, and privacy issues within multilingual and domain-specific contexts. This Junior AI Developer role focuses on applied research in model compression and responsible AI literacy initiatives. You will work closely with AI Engineers on prototypes for disaster risk reduction and citizen-led apps, leveraging open knowledge movements to strengthen public information access in India.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with a focus on machine learning and/or NLP
- 1-2 years as an AI/ML engineer, data scientist, or software engineer
- Working knowledge of LLMs, embeddings, RAG workflows, chatbots and agentic architectures
- Proficiency with Python
- Comfortable working across multiple projects with some autonomy, and communicating proactively about progress and blockers
Desired Qualifications
- Familiarity with Indic languages or prior work on multilingual/low-resource NLP
- Ability to scope loosely defined ideas into small, testable prototypes without needing fully specified requirements
- Interest in responsible AI, fairness, safety, transparency, or AI policy
- Research curiosity, comfortable in reading papers, reproducing results, or translating research ideas into working prototypes
- Exposure to open government data, civic tech, or public sector AI applications
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