AI/ML Research Engineer
Informa Group Plc.3 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Research, prototype, and evaluate NLP approaches for entity, relation, topic, and research-area extraction from scholarly content.
- Build, populate, query, and evaluate knowledge graphs, ontologies, taxonomies, and controlled vocabularies.
- Develop and benchmark embedding, semantic search, hybrid retrieval, reranking, and graph-enhanced RAG approaches.
- Create gold-standard datasets, annotation guidelines, evaluation metrics, test sets, and reproducible evaluation harnesses.
- Design and run controlled experiments using experiment-tracking tools and document reproducible results.
- Prototype with LLM APIs and open-source models for knowledge extraction and enrichment.
- Write clean, tested, and documented Python code and support handoff of successful prototypes to Engineering teams.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Editorial, and business teams to define research questions and business cases.
- Scout and compare vendors, models, libraries, and tools and prepare benchmark results.
- Present technical findings to technical and non-technical audiences and contribute to papers, articles, conference submissions, and open-source work.
Requirements
- 2–4 years of experience applying NLP and machine learning in industry or research, or an MSc with relevant research or internship experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, computational linguistics, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Strong Python skills, including pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, and readable, tested code.
- Hands-on experience with spaCy, Hugging Face Transformers, PyTorch, or comparable NLP and machine learning frameworks.
- Practical knowledge of knowledge graphs, property graphs, RDF, OWL, SKOS, Cypher, and/or SPARQL.
- Understanding of information retrieval, embeddings, vector search, hybrid retrieval, semantic search, and RAG.
- Experience designing test sets, annotations, evaluation metrics, error analysis, and statistical sanity checks.
- Working familiarity with LLM APIs and structured-output prompting for information extraction.
- Experience with Git, Linux, SQL, notebooks, virtual environments, and containers.
- Ability to read research papers and reproduce results from papers or open-source repositories.
- Experience with a cloud platform, preferably AWS, is a plus.
- Preferred qualifications include graph database, NLP/LLM, or cloud ML certifications; scholarly metadata experience; ontology and taxonomy tooling exposure; LLM fine-tuning or agentic-framework experience; publications, conference presentations, or open-source contributions.
Benefits
- Balanced working model with a minimum expectation of three days per week in person and flexibility to work from home or remotely when not collaborating in person.
- 25 days of annual leave plus three additional discretionary days off during the holiday season.
- Four paid volunteering days per year and a day off for the employee’s birthday.
- Pension contributions.
- Seasonal social and charitable events.
- Training and development opportunities.
- Candidates must live within commuting distance of the Bengaluru or New Delhi office and have the right to work and live in India.
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About Informa Group Plc.
Informa Group Plc operates B2B exhibitions, conferences, digital services, market intelligence, and academic publishing for professional and research communities. Its portfolio includes Informa Markets, Informa Connect, and the Taylor & Francis publishing group, with events and brands such as Black Hat, CPHI, and Money20/20. The company is headquartered in London, publicly listed on the London Stock Exchange, and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 index.