Ayoub ZOUHRI

AI Engineer - AI Systems & Infrastructure

Salary / Daily rate

Lyon, France

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Remote only

Skills

LLMs / Large language modelsDeep LearningPythonMachine LearningNLP / Natural Language ProcessingData EngineeringData AnalysisBackend DevelopmentData VisualizationETLBig DataAzureSQL databasesAWSGoogle Cloud Platform

Languages

French (Native)Arabic (Native)English (Fluent)

About me

Intro

Software engineer focused on building AI systems that work reliably in production. Experience across multi-agent architectures, LLM infrastructure, Graph RAG pipelines and ML research. Open to full-time roles: AI Engineering, AI Infrastructure, Data Science.

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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

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