Research Principal AI Software Engineer
Waters Corporation27 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Ideate, prototype, and evaluate generative AI and machine-learning approaches using meaningful metrics.
- Design and build agentic AI solutions with multi-step workflows, tool use, and orchestration.
- Develop RAG pipelines over scientific and instrument data, including ingestion, embeddings, vector search, and retrieval evaluation.
- Deploy, monitor, and maintain AI solutions in AWS and build APIs exposing models and agents to internal and instrument software.
- Serve as technical lead on selected generative AI research projects and company initiatives.
- Collaborate with subject matter experts to assess use cases and model performance and communicate results to stakeholders.
- Maintain Python codebases, apply object-oriented programming practices, and write unit tests.
- Contribute to technical reports, patent applications, transferable protocols, and AWS data pipelines.
- Track advances in machine learning and AI and apply relevant techniques to new project ideas.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in computer science, data science, or a related field with at least 8 years of relevant experience, or a PhD with at least 5 years of experience.
- Experience developing generative AI, machine-learning, statistical, and/or mechanistic models using Python.
- At least 2 years of experience serving as a technical lead on a research or development project team.
- Hands-on experience with data preparation, experiment tracking, hyperparameter tuning, model training, and evaluation.
- Experience deploying AI solutions in the cloud, preferably AWS, including containerization with Docker.
- Experience implementing and evolving modeling techniques based on papers, textbooks, and technical documentation.
- Strong Python programming skills with tools such as PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, TensorFlow, NumPy, pandas, PySpark, SciPy, and scikit-learn.
- Ability to communicate results through meaningful metrics and visualizations and incorporate stakeholder feedback.
- Comfort with Git version control, Bash, or command prompt.
- Preferred experience training and fine-tuning LLMs on domain-specific data and benchmarking them against baseline models.
- Knowledge of Java, C#, or Scala is desirable.
- Experience in the life sciences domain and collaboration with subject matter experts is a plus.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with three days per week, Tuesday through Thursday, in the Waters GCC office at RMZ Ecoworld, Bellandur, Bangalore, and two days remote.
- Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and an inclusive, supportive work environment.
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About Waters Corporation
Waters Corporation builds analytical instruments and software for pharmaceutical, biopharma, food and environmental labs, and clinical diagnostics. Its portfolio spans UPLC/HPLC chromatography, mass spectrometry, thermal analysis (TA Instruments), informatics, and analytical standards and reagents, sold alongside service and consumables. Founded in 1958 and headquartered in Milford, Massachusetts, Waters is a public company (NYSE: WAT) with systems used in drug development, quality control, and safety testing worldwide.