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Your Role and Responsibilities We are looking for a Software Developer with a strong foundation in deep learning to join the Software Lab in Lucknow. You will turn state-of-the-art multimodal models into production-grade solutions on the IBM watsonx platform, covering defect and anomaly detection, segmentation, visual inspection, and document understanding for clients in energy, infrastructure, logistics, BFSI, and the public sector.

You will design and build Python services and data pipelines and fine-tune foundation models on client data, and package them as containerised, API-driven services on Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Cloud. You will also make models robust and explainable for real-world conditions and work with pre-sales teams to build proofs of concept and present results to clients.

You will be a self-starter, requiring limited supervision or guidance, with good communication skills and the ability to multi-task and prioritize your work. Working with researchers, architects, and client stakeholders will be critical to taking ideas from prototype to production.

Required Education

- Doctorate Degree

Preferred Education

- Doctorate Degree

Required Technical and Skilled Expertise

- A solid base in Python and deep learning is required.

Experience with C++, Java or other languages is useful.

- Hands-on experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow, including CNN, transformer, detection and segmentation architectures.
- Experience with computer vision tasks such as anomaly detection, defect detection, image segmentation, and classification.
- Experience building data pipelines for large image datasets, including cleaning, augmentation, and annotation workflows.
- Knowledge of model evaluation, statistical analysis, and error analysis.
- Knowledge of building API-driven services (REST / FastAPI) and packaging models with Docker.
- Experience working with GitHub as source code control.
- Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Robotics or equivalent.

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

- PhD (completed or in progress) in AI, Computer Vision, or Robotics.




- Publications at peer-reviewed venues such as CVPR, WACV, BMVC, or ACM SAC.
- Experience with vision-language models (e.g. CLIP, SAM) and parameter-efficient fine-tuning (adapters, LoRA).
- Experience with industrial inspection, infrastructure monitoring, or medical imaging use cases.
- Knowledge of explainable AI techniques such as Grad-CAM and adversarial robustness.
- Knowledge of model optimisation and edge deployment (ONNX, TensorRT, OpenVINO).
- Knowledge of IBM watsonx, Hugging Face, Kubernetes, Docker, and Red Hat OpenShift.
- Knowledge of any cloud services, including IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Experience with Linux systems.

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Locations - LUCKNOW, Uttar Pradesh, India

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