DAWAR CONSULTING INC

AI/ML Engineer - NLP Scientist

DAWAR CONSULTING INC  •  $80 - $85/hr  •  South San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)  •  4 hours ago
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Job Description


Our client, a world leader in biotechnology and life sciences, is looking for a “

Senior AI/ML Engineer - NLP Scientist

”.

Location:

South San Francisco, CA

Job Duration:

Long-Term Contract (Possibility Of Extension)

Rate:

$80-$85/hr on W2

Company Benefits:

Medical, Paid Sick Leave, 401 (k)


We are seeking a

Senior AI/ML Engineer

to build an evidence-grounded AI capability that verifies generated claims against approved scientific, clinical, regulatory, and reference materials before human review. The system will retrieve relevant evidence, decompose claims into verifiable assertions, evaluate evidence support, and provide

traceable decisions with citations

. The system must recognize unsupported or contradicted claims and

abstain rather than guess

.


Key Responsibilities

  • Build production-grade

    Python/NLP pipelines

    for claim verification and evidence attribution.


  • Develop

    hybrid retrieval

    using lexical and vector search to identify relevant evidence.


  • Implement

    claim decomposition, natural language inference (NLI), entailment, and

    contradiction detection

    .


  • Evaluate whether generated claims are genuinely supported by cited evidence.


  • Design

    confidence thresholds, abstention logic, escalation rules, and human-in-the-loop

    workflows

    .


  • Build evaluation datasets with expert annotation guidelines and measure

    inter-annotator

    agreement

    .


  • Track false approvals, false rejections, abstentions, and other error categories.


  • Develop traceable systems that allow decisions to be reconstructed based on

    model version,

    evidence, citations, and reviewer actions

    .


  • Work with Medical, Legal, Regulatory, and scientific stakeholders to translate review requirements into technical solutions.


Required Skills


  • Strong

    Python

    production engineering.


  • NLP / LLM / Generative AI

    development.


  • RAG, hybrid search, vector search, and lexical retrieval

    .


  • Natural Language Inference (NLI), entailment, contradiction detection

    .


  • Claim decomposition and evidence attribution

    .


  • LLM/model APIs and production evaluation frameworks.


  • AI/ML evaluation, benchmarking, and error analysis

    .


  • Human-in-the-loop AI,

    confidence scoring and abstention

    .


  • Experience with scientific, technical, regulatory, legal, or other high-stakes content.


  • Experience creating

    expert-labeled datasets and annotation guidelines

    .


  • Strong understanding of

    traceability, citations, and reproducible AI decisions

    .


Preferred Skills


  • Knowledge graphs

    and relationships between claims, evidence, references, products, and indications.


  • Deterministic

    rules + ML/LLM decision systems

    .


  • Pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, regulatory, legal, financial compliance, or scientific


    publishing experience.


  • Familiarity with

    clinical studies, statistics, scientific literature, and citation practices

    .


  • Experience with

    LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, PyTorch, or similar NLP/


    LLM frameworks

    .


If interested, please share your updated resume at

hr@dawarconsulting.com

/
kavitha@dawarconsulting.com
DAWAR CONSULTING INC

About DAWAR CONSULTING INC

DAWAR CONSULTING, a trusted name in IT Professional. We provide technology and business consulting services, helping clients with workforce solutions, project delivery, and IT support.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Newark, California
Year Founded
2009
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