AI Developer

The AI Developer will design and develop software applications using Machine Learning models, contribute technical expertise to requirements analysis, provide detailed documentation and version control, and offer 3rd level application support and problem resolution related to the models. The position is based in Deqing, China, within the UN Office of Information and Communications Technology, supporting digital transformation and enterprise solutions.

Responsibilities

• Participates in the development, programming, testing, debugging and implementation of new applications with an AI and/or Geospatial components, using UN established standards.
• Prepares technical and user documentation for deployed computer application systems, as well as training materials and conducts technical presentations.
• Provides support for deployed computer application systems including version management, data recovery and deployment to users' offices; performs ongoing reviews with users and developers and responds to users requests.
• Keeps abreast of developments in the field; performs benchmarking and proposes new models, tools and libraries.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree (master's degree or equivalent) in computer science, information systems, mathematics, statistics, or related field.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• 4+ years of experience with Python and at least one ML library (Pytorch, jax, TF,…) is required.
• 2+ years of experience with three or more of these is required: model evaluation and fine-tuning, running Local Model Optimization & Quantization for server, desktop and mobile, Deploy/Monitor Model Serving / Data Pipeline, RAG development (Prompt design, Document parsing and integration pipeline, Document chunking strategies).
• 1+ year of experience with OCR, Vision or ASR desirable.
• 1+ year of experience with Classic NLP a plus.
• Experience of git, CI/CD and container.
• Ability to travel abroad for projects.
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the duty station where the position is located.
• Fluency in English (oral and written) is required. Knowledge of other UN official languages is an advantage.

Skills

• Python Programming
• Machine Learning Libraries
• PyTorch
• TensorFlow
• JAX
• Model evaluation
• Model fine-tuning
• Local Model Optimization
• Model Quantization
• Model Deployment
• Model Serving
• Data Pipeline Development
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation
• Prompt Design
• Document Parsing
• Document Chunking
• Optical Character Recognition
• Computer Vision
• Automatic Speech Recognition
• Natural Language Processing
• Git
• Continuous Integration
• Continuous Deployment
• Containerization Technologies

Languages

English