AI – Powered Device Developer Marketing consultant

The Alliance of Bioversity Worldwide and the Worldwide Middle for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) seeks to have interaction guide to develop an AI-Powered Device Developer who focuses on creating software program functions that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance numerous duties. He/she is going to work very carefully with venture leaders and particular person venture scientists in designing and creating AI powered instruments that deal with knowledge pre-processing, mannequin execution, and dissemination of mannequin outputs for various person teams. He/she works carefully with the research and geospatial knowledge analytics staff to assist the general knowledge analytics workflow utilizing AI powered instruments.

The Alliance of Bioversity Worldwide and the Worldwide Middle for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) hereafter Alliance delivers research-based options that handle the worldwide crises of malnutrition, local weather change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation. The Alliance focuses on the nexus of agriculture, nutrition and atmosphere. We work with native, nationwide, and multinational companions throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and with the private and non-private sectors and civil society. With novel partnerships, the Alliance generates proof and mainstreams improvements to rework food methods and landscapes in order that they maintain the planet, drive prosperity, and nourish individuals. The Alliance is organized into six key levers: 1) Meals atmosphere and client habits – reshaping the food atmosphere and client habits towards wholesome and sustainable diets; 2) Multifunctional landscapes – fostering innovation for environmental health and productive landscapes to enhance livelihoods; 3) Local weather motion – mainstreaming local weather motion within the food system to cut back dangers; 4) Biodiversity for food and agriculture – making agricultural and tree range obtainable and safeguarding it for the various wants of food system actors; 5) Digital inclusion – selling inclusion within the digital agriculture revolution for equitable advantages; and 6) Crops for nutrition and health – placing nutrition and health on the coronary heart of crop enchancment to handle the triple burden of malnutrition.

Key duties and obligations:

• Discover present AI applied sciences and perceive their capabilities and limitations to be utilized in agricultural research;
• Outline technical specs and user interface (UI);
• Determine environment friendly LLM (Massive Language Fashions) and customise the fashions to be educated on agricultural knowledge, together with any mandatory immediate engineering implementations;
• Prepare and fine-tune LLM fashions utilizing related agricultural datasets to make sure correct and environment friendly efficiency.
• Create linkage between CGIAR literature equivalent to GARDIAN and the LLM mannequin;
• Develop LLM-based AI device that gives agricultural good agronomic practices (GAPs) for various spatial and temporal context;
• Conduct exams to guage the accuracy, effectivity, and robustness of various elements;
• Deploy the device in a manufacturing atmosphere, guaranteeing its reliability and scalability;
• Combine LLM fashions into completely different software program functions seamlessly;
• Collect person suggestions and carry out upkeep duties to handle any points or bugs that come up;
• Doc the methodology, architecture, and finest practices for using the LLM for various agriculture functions.

Required {qualifications}:

• BSc diploma in Laptop Science, Laptop Engineering, Software program Engineering
• Familiarity with AI frameworks and libraries related to agricultural research.
• Expertise in software development.
• Familiarity of agriculture and agriculture challenges

Expertise:

• 1 years’ expertise in agriculture knowledge, AI software for Agricultural sector.

Technical Expertise:

•  Programming Languages: Proficiency in programming languages equivalent to Python, R, Java, HTML, JavaScript.
•  Machine Studying and Deep Studying: A stable understanding of those ideas is important for designing, coaching, and evaluating AI fashions.
•  Knowledge Science: Expertise in knowledge wrangling, evaluation, and visualization are essential to work successfully with the information used to coach and refine AI fashions.
•  Software program Improvement: Familiarity with software development ideas, finest practices, and instruments.
•  Cloud Computing: Realizing the way to leverage cloud platforms for knowledge storage, mannequin coaching, and deployment.
•  AI Frameworks and Libraries: Familiarity with artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms like LLMs.

Smooth Expertise:

• Sturdy problem-solving abilities to establish options and navigate technical hurdles.
• The flexibility to investigate knowledge, consider outcomes, and make sound selections.
• Efficient communication skills are important for collaborating with cross-functional groups, explaining technical ideas to non-technical audiences, and documenting work clearly.
• Pondering exterior the field and developing with progressive options is efficacious for creating distinctive and impactful AI-powered instruments.
• Staying up to date with the most recent developments and embracing steady studying.

Obligation Station:     Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Consultancy price:  birr 30,000 per thirty days

Phrases of appointment:  The consultancy appointment is for a most of six months contract length.

Purposes: Candidates ought to present a canopy letter and curriculum vitae; names and addresses (together with phone and e mail) of three referees who’re educated concerning the candidate’s skilled {qualifications} and work expertise to be included within the curriculum vitae.

The place and reference quantity: REF: C/ABC/13/24 needs to be clearly indicated within the topic line of the duvet letter. All functions to be submitted on-line on our recruitment portal: http://ilri.simplicant.com/ earlier than 10 April 2024.

ABC/ILRI doesn’t cost a price at any stage of the recruitment course of (software, interview assembly, processing or coaching).

To search out extra concerning the Alliance, go to our Web site at https://alliancebioversityciat.org

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