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Introduction

IBM Research takes responsibility for technology and its role in society. Working in IBM Research means you'll join a team who invent what's next in computing, always choosing the big, urgent and mind-bending work that endures and shapes generations. Our passion for discovery, and excitement for defining the future of tech, is what builds our strong culture around solving problems for clients and seeing the real world impact that you can make.

IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your role and responsibilities

Research Scientist position at IBM India Research Lab is a challenging, dynamic and highly innovative role, where you will be responsible for coming up with new innovative ideas, developing solutions working as a team, building prototypes, publishing research papers and demonstrating the value of your ideas in an enterprise setting.

Some of our current areas of work where we are actively looking for top researchers 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.
  • Innovative 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, and creating specialized pipelines for various tasks including effective LLM-generated data pipelines.
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


ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Research is the organic growth engine of IBM and an innovation engine for our customers and partners. As part of this mission, IBM Research anticipates and examines 'What's Next in Computing' to ultimately create and integrate the technologies the world relies upon to solve big challenges and unlock new opportunities. We create and pioneer new markets for IBM, our partners and customers as exemplified in our ongoing quest to reach practical and large-scale quantum computing. Across IBM Research, we realize the power and potential to accelerate discovery with our partners and clients by combining the power of high performance computing, AI, and Quantum, all integrated through the hybrid cloud.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.


Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.


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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.


Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 


At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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