
Ayoub ZOUHRI
AI Engineer - AI Systems & Infrastructure
Salary / Daily rate
Lyon, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Remote only
Skills
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Work experience
AI Engineer
PIMAN GROUP
Mar 2026 - Sep 2026
7 months
Lyon, France
– Participated in redesigning PiChat into a modular multi-agent architecture using MCP: sandboxed execution, skill routing, on-premise open source LLM deployment for data-sensitive clients. – Built MCP servers for Office automation (Excel, PowerPoint) and a document summarization tool with Map-Reduce chunking, shipped to production. – Built a Graph RAG POC with LightRAG for multi-hop enterprise document retrieval. – Built structured OCR pipelines for complex scanned document extraction.
AI Researcher
Polytech Marseille
Sep 2025 - Jan 2026
5 months
Marseille, France
– Modeled the Hadamard conjecture using Geometric Deep Learning with optimization on the Stiefel manifold. – Implemented MCTS-based combinatorial search in high-dimensional discrete spaces.
Research Intern: AI for Medical Imaging
MILITARY TECHNICAL ACADEMY FERDINAND
May 2025 - Aug 2025
4 months
Bucharest, Romania
– Adapted DRUSvar, a conditional diffusion model, for ultrasound image denoising. – Trained a Swin Transformer segmentation model, achieving +20 mAP over baseline on the reference dataset. – Validated results against standardized industrial metrics (PSNR, SSIM) in a regulated medical research environment.
MLOps Engineer
Personal Project
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
1 month
– Provisioned reproducible training and deployment environments using Terraform (IaC). – Monitored data drift in production with Evidently AI on the Telco Customer Churn dataset. – Integrated SHAP for model explainability, addressing GDPR and AI Act compliance requirements.
Reinforcement Learning Engineer
Open Source Project
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
1 month
– Built a reinforcement learning agent from scratch based on the Gumbel MuZero/AlphaZero framework. – Implemented the Gumbel-Max trick for root node action selection, ensuring policy improvement without replacement. – Optimized sample efficiency compared to standard UCB-based MCTS for solving specific chess endgames.
Education
Polytech Marseille
Specialization Semester, AI/ML
2025 - 2026
1 year 1 month
Polytech Annecy-Chambéry
Engineering Degree, Computer Science
2023 - 2026
3 years 1 month
Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Écoles
MPSI/MP
2020 - 2023
3 years 1 month
– INTENSIVE 2-YEAR PROGRAM: CALCULUS, LINEAR ALGEBRA, PROBABILITY, STATISTICS, TOPOLOGY, THEORETICAL PHYSICS