Demand for AI talent pool continues to surge in India.  

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have particularly taken the center-stage as more and more businesses realise the potential of these technologies. The soaring demand of AI in recent years has seen incredible uptake, creating more job opportunities in this space. According to the World Economic Forum's report, AI-enabled automation will generate 133 million new jobs globally by 2022. In India, the demand for the AI talent pool has expedited in the last couple of years. This is largely credited to the government's steps towards digitisation and the arrival of multinational companies in the country. Large companies are pouring huge capital to acquire skilled AI professionals, paying handsome salaries.

Here is the list of top artificial intelligence jobs companies are offering in October 2020.

IBM

Location: Pune

Job Role: AI Applications Product Support Engineer – WCE_EDI

Responsibilities:

Candidates for this position must be able to openly share ideas and communicate thoroughly and professionally in both verbal and written forms. They will be responsible for independently manage all customer communication channels, case management and customer communication. Applicants also require to coordinate between the customer, SaaS/internal teams, engineering, DevOps, ITOps teams, educate customers on IBM software and support best practices. They will require to understand the software requirements of the Client Desktop, and know how to determine and verify customer configurations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2-5 years of experience in a customer-facing role.

• Knowledge of EDI standards (X12, EDIFACT).

• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Knowledge of Cloud Architectures – IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, Docker.

• Understanding of various protocols like FTP, SFTP, AS2, X400, and more.

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Amazon

Location: Bangalore

Job Role: Principal AI/ML Specialist

Responsibilities:

A Principal AI/ML Prototyping Engineer at AWS will be the Principal Subject Matter Expert (SME) for helping customers to design solutions that leverage the company's ML services. As part of the team, the candidate will work closely with customers in one or more industry verticals to enable large-scale use cases, design ML pipelines, and drive the adoption of AWS for the AI/ML platforms.

Preferred Qualifications:

• D. in Computer Science, Statistics, or Mathematics.

• 5+ years of practitioner experience in computer vision, pattern recognition, or related areas with specialization (at least two of) voice, image, video, natural language processing and text analytics.

• Understanding of security, risk and compliance frameworks, the bias in AI/ML.

• Large-scale systems integration involving on-premises technology and public cloud platforms.

• Ability to develop experimental and analytic plans for data modeling processes, use of strong baselines, ability to accurately determine cause and effect relationships.

• Experience with AWS technologies like SageMaker, Glue, S3.

• Experience working with GPUs to develop models and handling terabyte+ size datasets

• Familiarity with using data visualization tools and more.

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NVIDIA

Location: Pune

Job Role: Senior Cloud AI Platform Engineer

Responsibilities:

As an AI Platform team, a candidate for this position will work with a group of hardworking software engineers from diverse backgrounds like gaming, deep learning, applications, system development and hardware design distributed across the world. He/she will be responsible for deploying the latest deep learning technologies to bring real-time AI to gamers, streamers, and creators, working with industry leaders to deploy the latest DL features to the largest clouds. A Senior Cloud AI Platform Engineer will also work with leading cloud providers and companies looking to deploy NVIDIA's state-of-the-art AI features into their cloud running on NVIDIA hardware and software.

Preferred Qualifications:

• S. or higher degree in Computer Science/Engineering or similar field.

• 5+ years of industry experience (or equivalent) in system programming, gaming, or related field.

• Experience with languages like Python and Perl and knowledge of deploying features in a container and managed with Kubernetes.

• Experience with Continuous Integration and Deployment

• Solid background in algorithms and data structures

• Strong programming skills in C and C++, and a strong background of object-oriented design principles and design patterns

• Have experience building RESTful APIs and have good knowledge of RESTful design patterns.

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UnitedHealth Group

Location: Bangalore

Job Role: Principal Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Responsibilities:

In this role, a candidate will research, invent, design and build novel AI solutions and train ML models to address the biggest opportunities in healthcare. He/she will be responsible for using data from disparate data sources and formats in order to support solution features. A Principal Artificial Intelligence Engineer will provide technical vision and leadership to the team and the Optum community alike and produce high-quality solutions that are robust, reliable and scalable.

Preferred Qualifications:

• D. in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or related quantitative discipline.

• Academic publications in AI at top tier conferences or journals.

• Experience in Healthcare.

• Demonstrable experience in building end-to-end AI systems.

• Demonstrable academic or industry experience in Speech AI, Natural Language Understanding, Image Processing, Deep Learning, Classical AI (search and planning), Reinforcement Learning, Bayesian Statistics, Causal Inference, and Ethical AI.

• Prior experience with Cloud AI APIs (GCP, Azure, AWS).

• Experience building and running ML algorithms in constrained environments, and more.

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Cisco Systems

Location: Bangalore

Job Role: Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

CSG N/W Infra PI Group designs and develops high-performance system software for various Cisco Platforms which includes Enterprise Switching & Routers, Datacenter Switches, Service Provider Routing Platforms. Applicants for this role must strong C, OS and Network protocols knowledge, familiarity with Linux Kernel internals, and OS fundamentals, good at protocols like IPv4, v6, TCP, UDP, and knowledge in Python, or any scripting tool.

Preferred Qualifications:

• BE/B.Tech degree with a minimum of 4 yrs of development in the networking industry experience.

• Experience with simulation tools.

• Exposure SDN, Netconf/ Yang, REST APIs

• One or more Data Analytics tools like ELK and Data Representation tools.

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Infoblox

Location: Bangalore

Job Role: Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

A Senior Software Engineer at Infoblox will be responsible for collaborating with the UX and UI teams to develop new user-facing features for Infoblox's Cloud UI. The candidate will design and implement reusable components for the application framework. He/she will require to contribute to the UI test suite by developing unit tests for all new functionality and drive key aspects of product definition, execution, and test through the Agile/Scrum development methodology. The candidate will also provide technical leadership and mentoring for junior UI engineers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in the development of amazing UIs.

• Practical experience programming with standard web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS. Any experience with TypeScript is a bonus.

• Hands-on experience with current JavaScript framework technologies with a strong preference for Angular 5+ and component-driven development.

• Mastery of web application design using MVC design pattern and experience in CSS technologies.

• Hands-on experience with using REST Web Services and deep understanding of code versioning tools such as Git and Docker containerization.

• Bachelor's and Master's degree in CS, CE or EE.

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Qualys

Location: Pune

Job Role: Customer Support Analyst, AI Solutions

Responsibilities:

The Customer Support Analyst, AI Solutions will be expected to work on cleaning and preparing raw customer interaction history data to guide feature development. The candidate will also need to train Conversational AI solutions, draft conversation designs as required, and set up dataflows to augment Chatbot training/Search. He/she will be required to work on the bot-builder tool to optimize intent sets, maintain intent taxonomy, and develop tools and scripts needed to optimize Conversational AI processes. A candidate for this role also will be responsible for identifying trends/patterns in customer interaction histories and user query data that present opportunities for improvements to operating efficiencies, customer experience, and processes and more.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of text representation techniques, algorithms, statistics

• Machine Translation & Compilers experience

• Knowledge of machine learning frameworks and libraries, big data frameworks such as Spark, Hadoop, Text classification & clustering skills and programming skills Python, Java and/or R.

• Familiarity with AI disciplines such as ML and NLP.

• Experience designing, developing and deploying training data sets.

• Ability to be proactive, innovative and creative in meeting customer and enterprise needs, and more.

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