HSBC Group

GCB 5

Some careers shine brighter than others.

If you’re looking for a role that will help you stand out at HSBC, take a look at how you can fulfil your potential.

Our GCIO organisation plays a critical role for the bank. This team partners with the businesses to build the platforms, systems, and products that our customers use every day. We keep people’s money and data safe and are at the forefront of driving innovation for our businesses, customers, and colleagues. 

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Software Engineering.

Principal Responsibilities

In this role you will

• Research, develop, and implement state-of-the-art techniques in the field of Large Language Models (LLM) and Generative AI
• Conduct Proof-of-Concept (POC) and prototyping to explore and validate the flexibility of innovated ideas
• Understand business objectives and develop ML models that help to achieve them
• Data preparation, data cleaning, data verification to make sure data quality for model training
• Training models and hyper-parameters tuning
• Model deployment, Model serving and integrate them within the business applications and embed in the business processes
• Work together with testing engineers to construct and execute test cases to verify model accuracy
• Contribute to the MLOps toolkits to manage machine learning lifecycle more effectively

To be successful you will need

• Doctor, Masters, or Bachelor’s degree in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics or related areas
• Expertise in one or more of NLP, Multimodal Representation Learning, Gen AI / LLM
• Experienced in fine-tuning and developing LLM. Strong familiarity with emerging trends in LLMs and open-source platforms. Excellent programming skills in Python
• Familiarity with common ML frameworks like Pytorch, and basic libraries like sklearn, pandas, etc
• Research experience in document understanding / document intelligence fields is a big plus. E.g. Visual rich document classification, information extraction, document layout analysis, question answering, generative AI, LLM etc 
• Understanding of MLOps or machine learning Model Lifecycle Management concepts. Strong analytical skills, problem solving skills, communication and interpersonal skills
• Able to work under pressure and demonstrate initiative, enthusiasm and rapid learning capability. Willing to work with overseas teams

When applying, please submit a full resume and attach your appraisal reports for the last two performance years. Your local internal application policy should be followed. For internal applicants in Hong Kong with less than twelve months in their current role, please also obtain and enclose the endorsement from your current line manager in the application as well; for more information you can visit HRDirect and search for content "HKG: Do I need any approval to look for internal career opportunities?".

Opening up a world of opportunity

Candidate with less relevant experience or skills may be offered a lower Global Career Band than stated above.

HSBC is committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. Personal data held by the Bank relating to employment applications will be used in accordance with our Privacy Statement, which is available on our website.

Issued by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited.