Tasks and responsibilities

AI Solutions Specialist:
•    Gather and analyse business requirements from stakeholders and translate them into technical specifications.
•    Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of AI projects with business goals, facilitating communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
•    Develop and maintain documentation, including business cases, process flows, and user stories.
•    Design and develop full-stack AI systems, leveraging AI/ML services
•    Develop solutions following CI/CD best practices
•    Assemble, extend and integrate AI-based automation and knowledge solutions leveraging low-code platforms

Data Science and ML Specialist:
•    Design and implement ETL processes to integrate data from various sources.
•    Build and maintain data pipelines to ensure data quality and accessibility.
•    Ensure data security and compliance with FAO data policies.
•    Develop and deploy machine learning models according to project requirements
•    Implement and maintain ML pipelines and workflows.
•    Optimize the use of LLMs for NLP use cases with best practices, including fine-tuning of Foundation Models
•    Monitor and evaluate model performance, making necessary adjustments.
•    Analyse large datasets to extract actionable insights, including structured statistical and geospatial
•    Build predictive models to support FAO’s decision-making processes.
•    Develop data visualization tools and dashboards to communicate findings.

CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING

Minimum Requirements

•    For COF: University degree in Information Technology or related discipline. Public Cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP or Microsoft PowerPlatform) professional certificates and 2 years of experience in full-stack software
•    For PSA: Relevant technical degree/certificate and at least than 1 year of experience in full-stack software development
•    For both COF and PSA: Additional 1+ years’ relevant experience with AI/ML services in multi-cloud environments and/or in Microsoft PowerPlatform and Copilot Studio environments
•    Working knowledge of English.

FAO Core Competencies

•    Results Focus
•    Teamwork
•    Communication
•    Building Effective Relationships
•    Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement