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Introduction


IBM Research is the innovation and growth engine of the IBM corporation. It is the largest industrial research organization in the world with 12 labs on 6 continents. IBM Research produces more breakthroughs–more than 9 patents are produced every day–than any other organization in the world. IBM employs over 3200 researchers worldwide.

IBM Research India (IRL) is the leading industrial research lab in India, shaping the future of computing across AI, Hybrid Cloud and Quantum Computing. IRL has a long legacy of ground-breaking innovation in the areas of computer science and its applications to a wide variety of disciplines and offerings for IBM. IRL researchers are working on projects that are pushing the state of the art across Foundation Models, optimized runtime stacks for FM workloads such as tuning, large scale data engineering and pre-training, multi-accelerator model optimization, agentic workflows and modalities across language, code, time series, IT automation and geospatial. We are strong proponents of open-source community-driven software and model development, and our work spans a wide spectrum from research collaborations with academia to developing enterprise-grade commercial software.

Your role and responsibilities

Research Engineer position at IBM India Research Lab is a challenging, dynamic and highly innovative role. 

Some of our current areas of work where we are actively looking for top talent are:

  • Optimized runtime stacks for foundation model workloads including fine-tuning, inference serving and large-scale data engineering, with a focus on multi-stage tuning including reinforcement learning, inference-time compute, and data preparation needs for complex AI systems.
  • Optimizing models to run on multiple accelerators including IBM’s AIU accelerator leveraging compiler optimizations, specialized kernels, libraries and tools.
  • Developing use cases that effectively leverage the infrastructure and models to deliver value
  • Pre-training language and multi-modal foundation models working with large scale distributed training procedures, model alignment, creating specialized pipelines for various tasks including effective LLM-generated data pipelines, creating frameworks for collecting human data and deploying models in user-centric platforms.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

You should have one or more of the following:

  • A master’s degree in computer science, AI or related fields from a top institution
  • 0-8 years of experience working with modern ML techniques including but not limited to model architectures, data processing, fine-tuning techniques, reinforcement learning, distributed training, inference optimizations
  • Experience with big data platforms like Ray and Spark
  • Experience working with Pytorch FSDP and HuggingFace libraries
  • Programming experience in one of the following: Python, web development technologies
  • Growth mindset and a pragmatic attitude
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Peer-reviewed research at top machine learning or systems conferences
  • Experience working with pytorch.compile, CUDA, triton kernels, GPU scheduling, memory management
  • Experience working with open-source communities

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