Senior AI Scientist - NLP and LLMs

Join Our Team as a Senior AI Scientist

Are you interested in working with a multi-functional team of data scientists, engineers, and domain experts to create innovative products? If you are keen to lead the design, development, and deployment of cutting-edge natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs) solutions, then this may be the role for you!

About the Role

As a Senior AI Scientist, you will be responsible for leading the design, development, and deployment of cutting-edge NLP and LLMs solutions for the financial services and insurance industry. You will work with a multi-functional team of data scientists, engineers, and domain experts to create innovative products that leverage state-of-the-art NLP and LLMs techniques, such as GPT-4, Claude, Huggingface, LLaMA, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Pinecone, and others. You will also contribute to the research and development of new methods and applications of NLP and LLMs in the context of finance and insurance.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality and scalable solutions for NLP and LLMs.
• Conduct original research and publish in credible conferences and journals in the field of NLP and LLMs.
• Stay abreast of the latest developments and trends in NLP and LLMs and incorporate them into our products and services.
• Establish best practices and standards for NLP and LLMs development and evaluation.
• Build links between academia, technology, and third-party industry partners.
• Communicate effectively with senior management, clients, and partners to present and explain our solutions and their business value.
• Deliver innovative AI solutions that directly make valuable contributions across Aon.

Skills and Experience

• A PhD or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• Experience in NLP and LLMs, with a consistent record of publications, patents, or open source contributions in these domains.
• Strong programming skills in Python with experience in applying NLP and LLMs to various tasks and domains relevant to finance and insurance.
• Designing and developing innovative AI model architectures that leverage principles from encoder/decoders, jointly trained models, Siamese-twin models, VAEs, GANs, etc.
• Skilled in adapting and debugging ML systems across different environments.
• Expertise in Transformers, experienced with API wrappers like LangChain and Auto-GPT, and experience in evaluating LLMs and prompt engineering.

How We Support Our Colleagues

In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, we encourage a diverse workforce. Plus, our agile, inclusive environment allows you to manage your wellbeing and work/life balance, ensuring you can be your best self at Aon. Furthermore, all colleagues enjoy two “Global Wellbeing Days” each year, encouraging you to take time to focus on yourself. We offer a variety of working style solutions, but we also recognise that flexibility goes beyond just the place of work... and we are all for it. We call this Smart Working!

Our continuous learning culture inspires and equips you to learn, share and grow, helping you achieve your fullest potential. As a result, at Aon, you are more connected, more relevant, and more valued.

Aon values an innovative, diverse workplace where all colleagues feel empowered to be their authentic selves. Aon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Aon provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran, marital, domestic partner status, or other legally protected status.

We welcome applications from all and provide individuals with disabilities with reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application, interview process and to perform essential job functions once onboard.