Jimmy Z Smith

Principal AI & Data Science Engineer at Gierd

Principal AI & Data Science Engineer responsible for architecting and orchestrating scalable ELT data pipelines using Airbyte, DBT, and Kestra, migrating multi-tenant data sets from Amazon S3 to BigQuery, and driving faster multi-channel marketplace insights.

Principal Customer Engineer at SambaNova Systems

Led end-to-end deployment and optimization of 25+ large-scale AI models (75+ variants) on custom RDUs, reducing inference latency by optimizing execution graphs, kernel fusion, and memory scheduling; designed and produced containerized MLOps workflows, enabling enterprise onboarding.

Senior Data Scientist at EY

Transformed a $495K conceptual project into a fully operational AI platform for geopolitical analysis by architecting an Elastic Search-driven hybrid search layer, integrating traditional data sources, and leading Minerva Project work.

Data Scientist / NLP Engineer at Ford Motor Company

Built NLP-based analytics and text classification for customer data, leveraging transfer learning to improve predictive capabilities.

Machine Learning Engineer at Bank of America

Led R&D for AI-powered customer support; evaluated transformer models, built NLP-based workflows, and deployed ML models to production, improving model performance and customer response.

AI Software Engineer at Cox Communications

Managed client-facing efforts for the first AI product, onboarded and supported enterprise clients, and developed internal dashboards to surface insights from telecom data.