AI expert (REF962J)

  • Full-time
  • Location: Remote from Slovakia
  • Company: Deutsche Telekom IT and Telecommunications Slovakia
  • Language: English

Company Description

Our brand Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia entered the life of Košice region in 2006 under the name of T-Systems Slovakia and ever since has been inextricably linked with the region when became one of the founding members of Košice IT Valley. We have managed to grow from scratch to the second largest employer in the eastern part of the country with more than 3900 employees. Our goal is to proactively find new ways to improve and continuously transform into the type of company providing innovative information and communication technology services.

Job Description

At Deutsche Telekom, we believe that our people are our most valuable asset so be ready that we will invest in you a lot. Work-life balance is in our DNA, whether you wish to work on our premises or remotely, it is entirely up to you. Not to mention, we offer you professional development opportunities beyond measure. Using cutting-edge technologies on global projects and being appreciated and recognized by your employer for your highly value-added job? Also something you may enjoy only with us.

 

​​​​​​​As an AI Expert, you will be a part of the Generative AI center of expertise with the mission of exploring leading-edge Generative AI technologies to build new products offering superior customer experience. With every product and service we build, we aim for significant scale within our potential user base of tens of millions of customers across many countries, or among our 200k+ employees worldwide.  And thus, together with your international colleagues from Generative AI center, you will get the opportunity to significantly steer the future of product development in Detutsche Telekom and take over the position of Senior Generative AI expert.

WHAT WILL YOU DO ?

  • Your key tasks will be developing innovative products, services, and internal efficiency solutions based on Generative Artificial Intelligence technologies.
  • You will be a pivotal part of the spear-heading Generative AI development team of Deutsche Telekom, working in close cooperation with other key AI experts as well as subject matter experts of areas across the company building product and services with and for the latter.
  • You will be expected to provide key guidance on how to use cutting-edge Generative AI technologies in building telco-grade, strongly scaling products, and to efficiently execute the AI / data science components of such product/services developments. Those will include: Generative AI model/architecture selection, training/fine-tuning data set design and preparation, training pipeline design/setup, training/fine-tuning execution, meta-parameter optimization, design and development of model orchestration technology (using Langchain or similar technologies) for e.g. non-parametric knowledge retrieval and tool access, testing, etc.
  • You will build products/services based on both cutting-edge external Generative AI technology and be responsible for own Generative AI model development/enhancement. We believe in the success of a sound mixture of both: (1) using leading-edge external technology ensures speed and sharpens our understanding of the space; (2) building our own, likely Open Source-based, Generative AI models will be pivotal for a number of use cases, and will help us to mitigate potential risks for our company and its customers.
  • You will work in agile, empowered development teams in close synch with software engineers, product owners, customer experience and subject matter experts, amongst others.
  • You will act as a trusted advisor for key technical / data science guidance on Generative AI and AI more broadly – incl. to senior management -- to help building the key brain trust on Generative AI in DT and the broader telco industry

Qualifications

YOU WILL  SUCCEED IF YOU:

  • You have significant experience and understanding of large language / transformer models, cloud-based development, as well as a strong attitude of acting fast and being results-driven.
  • You have comprehensive and deep expert knowledge and 2+ years of experience in Generative AI technologies and 4+ years of experience in data science, with significant and extended hands-on experience in developing Generative AI models
  • You have knowledge of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and particularly of cutting-edge, large language / transformer models.
  • You have solid experience in software development, Open Source programming languages (Python)
  • You have strong knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS, Azure, GCP etc.
  • Are experienced in managing stakeholder expectations by being highly flexible as well as driving proactive and reactive communication. Being able and motivated to facilitate difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders.
  • You have a strong understanding of deep learning principles and neural network architectures.
  • You are able to act quickly, set new technical directions, empower the team to make decisions and aid the team with smart but fast decisions and engage in focused experimentation.
  • You have ability and drive to balance AI and product development with ethical considerations (e.g. understanding potential biases, fairness issues, privacy concerns, and societal impacts).
  • You have excellent communication skills in leading AI technology/strategy discussions in development teams and in meetings with senior management. Should be able to explain complex topics in “crisp simple” language to top management.
  • You are fluent in English.

 

Additional Information

WHY SHOULD YOU CHOOSE US?

Benefits

We believe in balance between work and personal life. An attractive and extensive work-life balance portfolio guarantees lasting motivation for employees and thus a better quality of life, promotes physical and mental well-being and contributes to a positive work environment. All this with the aim of providing more freedom in reconciling work, career growth, private life and individual lifestyle. Therefore we offer to our employees over 25 different benefits to improve their personal and professional life in these areas:

  • Financial benefits
  • Benefits with focus on learning and development
  • Benefits with focus on health and sport
  • Benefits with focus on family and work – life balance
  • Other benefits

For more information about our benefits click to Benefits

Salary

Final salary is negotiable.

We are offering base salary depending on seniority level and previous experience of candidate. In addition to base salary we provide variable part and other financial benefits.

Base salary will not be lower than 2500 € /brutto.

Additional information

* Please be informed that our remote working possibility is only available within Slovakia due to European taxation regulation.

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