Recruitment Of Specialist Cadre Officers On Contract/ Regular Basis

(Advertisement No: CRPD/SCO/2026-27/11)

Online Registration Of Application & Payment Of Fees: From 07.08.2026 TO 27.08.2026

State Bank of India invites online applications from eligible Indian citizens for appointment to the Specialist Cadre Officers Posts on Contract/Regular Basis. Candidates are requested to apply online through the link given on Banks official website https://sbi.bank.in/web/careers/current-openings.

The candidates, who intend to apply for the Post(s) are advised to apply only after carefully reading and understanding the under noted contents of this notification.

Nature of Engagement/Grade- Regular

No. of Vacancies - 12 - UR, 4 - SC, 1- ST ,6 - OBC,2 - EWS

Total - 25

Age in years^ - (As on 31.07.2026) - 25-35 yrs

Place of Posting - Mumbai or anywhere in India, in case of any administrative requirement.

Annual CTC Upper Range^ - Upper range - Basic: 64820-2340/1-67160-2680/10-93960 (The official will be eligible for DA, HRA, CCA, PF, Contributory Pension Fund i.e., NPS, LFC, Medical Facility, leave etc. as per rules in force from time to time and Salary and perks as per Banks salary structure)

Details of Educational Qualification/ Certification/ Work Experience/ Specific Skills Required:

Basic Qualification (AS ON 31.07.2026)

Mandatory: B. Tech/ B.E. in Computer Science/ Computer Science & Engineering/ Data Science & Artificial Intelligence/ Software Engineering/ Information Technology/ Electronics/ Electronics & Communications Engineering or Equivalent Degree in above specified disciplines with minimum 50% score.

OR

MCA

OR

M. Tech/ M. Sc in Computer Science/ Computer Science & Engineering/ Information Technology/ Data Science & Artificial Intelligence/ Software Engineering/ Electronics/ Electronics & Communications Engineering or Equivalent Degree in above specified disciplines from a University/ Institution/ Board recognized by Govt. Of India/ approved by Govt. Regulatory Bodies.

Other Certifications (AS ON 31.07.2026)

Skilled certifications

1. Advanced in AI Audit (AAIA) from ISACA USA
2. Advanced in AI Security Management (AAISM) from ISACA USA
3. Advanced in AI Risk (AAIR) from ISACA USA

4.AWS Certified AI Practitioner 5.Goolge Cloud Professional ML Engineer.

6.IBM AI Engineering Professional Certificate.

Work Experience (Post-Basic Qualification) (AS ON 31.07.2026)

Mandatory

4 years post qualification experience in Information Technology domain. Out of 4 years, 2 years experience in Designing ML/Deep Learning Models /mapping workflows/ deploying GenAI/RAG pipelines / Secure API Deployment / Experience with cloud ML suits like AWS SageMaker, Google Cloud Vertex AI or Microsoft Azure ML/ Expertise in libraries like TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-Learn, Pandas/ XGBoost/ Hugging Face/ Lang Chain/ Open AI API / Apache Spark/Python/ Prompt Engineering/ Fine Tuning.

Preferred: Experience in AI Related Domain would be Preferred

Training & Teaching experience will not be counted for eligibility.

Note: Candidates are required to produce up-to-date and full Experience Certificate, unambiguously indicating:

(i) Nature of duties,

(ii) Dates and duration of experience,

(iii) Level / position,

(iv) Responsibilities etc. issued by the employer(s).

However, if the candidate is unable to submit an Experience Certificate on the lines indicated above, any document unambiguously indicating the experience, nature of duties and the period claimed may be submitted and it would be considered on merit at the discretion of the Bank and the decision of the Bank shall be final.

Specific Skills

- Integration, Testing & Deployment: Understand integration requirements, coordinate with internal tech teams, prepare test cases, validate data flow and system compatibility. Monitor and troubleshoot AI systems in real-time.
- AI/ML Development & Optimization: Develop and implement AI algorithms and models including SLMs, LLMs, CNNs, GANs, agents, harnesses, guardrails. Analyze, preprocess large datasets. Evaluate model performance, fine-tune for optimal results. Optimize models through hardware and software design for data flow and inference.
- Data, Cloud & Infrastructure: Work with big data technologies like Hadoop and Spark. Use cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure. Handle hardware requirements for training, fine tuning, and deployment.
- Security & Compliance:



Conduct security assessments of AI models using adversarial AI tools. Identify model poisoning, biases, and vulnerabilities. Ensure ethical considerations and compliance with relevant regulations.
- Research, Documentation & Collaboration: Conduct research and maintain published track record in AI/ML. Develop and maintain documentation for AI models and solutions. Participate in code reviews and contribute to team knowledge sharing. Use version control systems like Git.
- Technical Skills & Awareness:
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or C++.
- Experience with AIML frameworks and libraries. Stay current with industry trends and advancements in AI and machine learning.

Details Of Brief Job Profile, Role & Responsibilities, Functions & Activities:

Job Profile:

1. AI/ML Development & Integration: Support integration testing of AI/analytics models, dashboards, PoCs, and autonomous tools like LLM agents. Train SLMs, GANs, etc., and prep datasets for workflow automation.
2. AI Security Controls & Governance: Define security controls for AI dev, testing, deployment, and ops. Establish model integrity, authenticity, versioning, provenance controls, and KRIs/KPIs. Map controls to enterprise frameworks and ensure regulatory compliance.
3. Risk & Threat Assessment: Assess risks of foundation models, open source models, 3rd-party AI services, and hosting/inference infra. Conduct AI red teaming, adversarial testing, and RCA for AI security incidents.
4. Data Privacy & Protection: Secure sensitive/regulated data in AI systems. Evaluate anonymization, tokenization, masking, and privacy enhancing tech. Review AI solutions for privacy/confidentiality risks.
5. Infrastructure & Workload Security: Secure AI workloads on containers, Kubernetes, GPUs, and cloud-native platforms. Evaluate model hosting environments and serving infrastructure.
6. Governance, Reporting & Stakeholder Engagement: Present AI risks to senior management, participate in AI governance committees and architecture boards. Develop dashboards, support audits, and track emerging AI/ML threats.
7. Procurement, Supply Chain & Adoption: Support procurement/onboarding reviews for AI products. Review open-source AI components and supply chain risks. Establish secure GenAI usage guidelines for employees.

KRAs:

1. AI/ML Development & MLOps: Train, fine-tune, and deploy SLMs, LLMs, CNNs, GANs for workflow automation. Build RAG pipelines, embeddings, and data repositories. Operationalize models using CI/CD, versioning, monitoring, retraining, and optimize for performance/cost.
2. Agentic Systems & Integration: Design autonomous LLM agents/harnesses that orchestrate end-to-end workflows. Support integration testing of AI models, dashboards, PoCs, and ensure compatibility with existing systems, APIs, plugins, and 3rd-party integrations.
3. AI Security Governance & Frameworks: Develop and implement organization-wide AI/LLM security governance framework and secure development standards. Establish controls for model integrity, authenticity, versioning, provenance across dev, testing, deployment, and ops.
4. Risk Assessment & Threat Modeling: Assess risks for foundation models, open-source models, 3rd-party AI services, and workloads on containers/Kubernetes/GPUs/cloud. Perform threat modeling for prompt injection, jailbreak, model poisoning, data leakage. Conduct adversarial testing and red teaming.
5. Data Privacy, Compliance & Guardrails: Safeguard sensitive/regulated data via anonymization, tokenization, masking, PHE tech. Secure RAG pipelines, vector DBs, and knowledge repos. Implement AI guardrails, content filtering, misuse prevention. Ensure alignment with RBI, CERT-In, DPDP Act, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, and other regulations.
6. Monitoring, Incident Response & Stakeholder Engagement: Monitor AI apps for anomalies, abuse, and security incidents. Drive misuse/abuse detection, RCA, maintain AI asset inventory and risk register.

Support incident response/forensics, audits, and present risks to senior management.



Build AI security awareness and collaborate with infra, data, legal, compliance, and architecture teams. Selection Process: The selection will be on the basis of Shortlisting and Interview.

Shortlisting: Mere fulfilling the minimum qualification and experience will not vest any right to candidate for being called for interview. The shortlisting committee constituted by the Bank will decide the shortlisting parameters and thereafter, adequate number of candidates, as decided by the Bank, will be shortlisted for interview. The decision of the Bank to call the candidates for the interview shall be final. No correspondence will be entertained in this regard.

Interview: Interview will carry 100 marks. The qualifying marks in interview will be decided by the Bank. No correspondence will be entertained in this regard.

Merit List: Merit list for selection will be prepared in descending order based on scores obtained in interview only. In case more than one candidate score the cut-off marks (common marks at cut-off point), such candidates will be ranked according to their age in descending order, in the merit list.

Call Letter For Interview: Intimation/call letter for interview will be uploaded on bank's website or sent by email, as decided by the Bank. NO HARD COPY WILL BE SENT.

How To Apply: Candidates should have valid Email ID which should be kept active till the declaration of result. It will help him/her in getting call letter/ interview advice etc. by email.

Guidelines For Filling Online Application i. Candidates will be required to register themselves online through the link available on SBI website https://sbi.bank.in/web/careers/current-openings and pay the application fee using Internet Banking/ Debit Card/ Credit Card/ UPI etc.

ii. Candidates should first scan their latest photograph and signature. Online application will not be registered unless candidate uploads his/ her photo and signature as specified on the online registration page (under How to Upload Document).

iii. Candidates should fill the application carefully. Once application is filled-in completely, candidate should submit the same. In the event of candidate not being able to fill the application in one go, he can save the information already entered.

When the information/ application is saved, a provisional registration number and password is generated by the system and displayed on the screen. Candidate should note down the registration number and password. They can re-open the saved application using registration number and password and edit the particulars, if needed.

This facility for editing the saved information will be available for three times only. Once the application is completely filled, candidate should submit the same and proceed for online payment of fee.

iv. After registering online, the candidates are advised to take a printout of the system generated online application form.

v. Candidates seeking Age relaxation are required to submit copies of necessary certificates at the time of document verification. No change in category of any candidate is permitted after registration of online application.

Guidelines For Payment Of Fees i. Application fees and Intimation Charges (Non-refundable) is 750/- ( Seven Hundred Fifty only) for General/EWS/OBC candidates and no fees/intimation charges for SC/ ST /PwBD candidates.

ii. After ensuring correctness of the particulars in the application form, candidates are required to pay the fees through payment gateway integrated with the application. No change/ edit in the application will be allowed thereafter.

iii. Fee payment will have to be made online through payment gateway available thereat. The payment can be made by using Debit Card/ Credit Card/ Internet Banking/ UPI etc. by providing information as asked on the screen. Transaction charges for online payment, if any, will be borne by the candidates.

iv. On successful completion of the transaction, e-receipt and application form, bearing the date of submission by the candidate, will be generated which should be printed and retained by the candidate.

v. If the online payment of fee is not successfully completed in first instance, please make fresh attempts to make online payment.

vi. A provision is there to reprint the e-Receipt and Application form containing fee details, at later stage.

vii. Application Fee once paid will NOT be refunded on any account NOR can it be adjusted for any other examination or selection in future.

📌 Deputy Manager- AI Specialists (Mumbai)
🏢 State Bank of India (SBI)
📍 Mumbai