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66degrees

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501 - 1000 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence • Cloud Services • Consulting

66degrees is a consulting and technology company that specializes in transforming customer experiences and business operations by leveraging innovative cloud, data, and AI solutions. They offer a broad spectrum of services including AI and machine learning, data platform modernization, cloud engineering, and managed solutions. By assisting businesses in modernizing infrastructure and applications, 66degrees enables data-driven decision-making and enhanced productivity. The company focuses on creating AI-powered enterprises and improving stakeholder collaboration and customer engagement across various industries such as retail, financial services, healthcare, and more.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade Generative AI, Agentic AI, and machine learning applications. • Develop evaluation and testing approaches to measure model performance, identify regressions, and improve solution quality. • Apply LLMs, multimodal models, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), structured extraction, and tool calling to solve real-world healthcare workflows. • Partner with Engineering, Product, Data, and Operations teams to integrate AI capabilities into client’s systems. • Improve the reliability, observability, guardrails, and monitoring of production AI applications. • Stay current with advancements in AI technologies and apply them pragmatically to deliver business value.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree – Required • Master’s degree – Preferred • 5+ years of software engineering, applied AI, machine learning, or related technical experience, including at least 1 year of recent experience designing and delivering production-grade Generative AI solutions. • Hands-on experience with modern AI systems, including LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agents, structured extraction, classification, or workflow automation. • Proficiency in Python, with experience building cloud-native applications on AWS or GCP and working with relational and/or NoSQL databases. • Practical experience with prompt engineering, tool calling, retrieval, model selection, context management, and AI application debugging. • Experience evaluating AI system quality using metrics, test datasets, human review, and error analysis. • Strong software engineering fundamentals, including system design, testing, scalability, and maintainability. • Hands-on experience building retrieval-augmented AI applications using vector databases, embeddings, and semantic search. • Preferred: Experience working in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or another regulated industry. • Preferred: Familiarity with AI evaluation, prompt optimization, guardrails, or human-in-the-loop workflows.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Retirement plans • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development • Bonuses • Stock options • Equipment allowances • Wellness programs