Cencora
AI Developer 2
About this role
Cencora is a global pharmaceutical solutions company, and this AI Developer 2 role is based at its India business services unit in Pune. The role focuses on large language models and NLP. The developer fine-tunes and builds with LLMs for tasks such as text generation, summarization, translation and question answering. The work also includes building retrieval-augmented generation pipelines with vector databases and using orchestration frameworks like LangChain. It suits ML engineers with at least 2 years of experience and strong Python and NLP skills.
Cencora is hiring for AI Developer 2, a full-time role based in Pune.
Who can apply: 2+ years. Skills: Python, LLMs, RAG, LangChain, Hugging Face, NLP.
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What you'll do
- Develop and fine-tune LLMs such as GPT, BERT, T5, LLaMA and Mistral for generation, summarization, translation and Q&A
- Work with transformer architectures, including self-attention, token embeddings and interpretability
- Implement custom tokenization, text embedding models and inference optimisations
- Apply prompt engineering and prompt tuning to improve model responses
- Build AI applications with LangChain and other LLM orchestration frameworks
- Build RAG pipelines using vector databases such as FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate and ChromaDB
What you need
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, data science, information systems, machine learning or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 2+ years of experience in MLOps, ML engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, software engineering or a related field
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience with Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain and OpenAI APIs
- Knowledge of scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM and strong NLP skills such as NER, topic modeling and embeddings
- Understanding of model serving, including REST APIs and real-time inference
- Location
- Pune
- Work mode
- See listing
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Pay
- ₹10–18 LPA (Est.)
- Type
- Full-time job, AI & ML
- Added
- 29 October 2026
Skills
- Python
- LLMs
- RAG
- LangChain
- Hugging Face
- NLP
"Est." = Hirastra's estimate based on market data, not an official figure.
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