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Business Unit Introduction IBM Software Innovation Lab is the global IBM organization that executes the research agenda focused on next-generation data systems, agents and automation, and drives these innovations at scale into IBM's Software product portfolio. IBM Software Innovation Lab - India (IBM Software Innovation Lab), as part of this global organization, works on breakthrough research in these areas driven by real-world market needs and enterprise scale data, and collaborates closely with the product engineering teams to drive integration of this research into IBM's global products to create market leading technologies.

Your Role and Responsibilities We are looking for a talented and highly motivated engineer to contribute to our research and development efforts across multiple frontiers of AI. The candidate will work on innovation projects that are grounded in real-world datasets, environments and problems while also pushing the state of the art in agentic AI technology with a specific focus on enterprise applications. Areas of research include AI for IT automation, intersection of data and AI, agentic middleware and models, embedding and AI-based retrieval, time series foundation models, multi-modal foundation models and AI for software engineering.

Required Education Doctorate Degree

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

- Excellent Research skills with exposure to publication track record
- Excellent Research Aptitude, ability to formulate, investigate a given problem in his/her technology domain
- Excellent coding skills in Python (including Pandas, NumPy)
- Strong grasp of Data Structures, Algorithms, Problem Solving
- Solid foundation in Linear Algebra, Probability, and Statistics
- Hands-on experience with VS Code, Jupyter Notebooks, Git
- AI/ML Fundamentals: supervised & unsupervised learning, classification, regression, neural networks, clustering
- Learning fundamentals and Data Manipulation/Analysis for large datasets
- Proficiency in AI libraries/frameworks: TensorFlow, PyTorch




- Experience in Deep Learning, Foundation Models, Large Language Models
- Familiar with Generative AI frameworks such as langchain and crew.ai
- Expertise in unstructured data processing, Predictive modelling problems, Software Engineering related technologies, Agentic System Optimization problems.

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

- Experience working with platforms such as Watsonx.ai or similar, IBM Hybrid Cloud Platform, Good set of software engineering skills towards envisioning solutioning.
- Familiarity with risks associated with AI systems build & deployments.

Years of Experience: 0 - 0

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