Associate ML Scientist

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🕒 July 20

🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🟡 Mid-level

✨ Associate

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Wadhwani AI

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🌾 Agriculture

💰 $1M Grant on 2022-12

Healthcare • Food & Beverage • Agriculture

Wadhwani AI is a non-profit technology organization that develops and deploys artificial intelligence solutions for social impact across India. It builds AI tools focused on improving education (reading fluency and teacher support), healthcare (early disease detection, maternal and newborn health, TB screening), and agriculture (yield improvement and pest management) to reach underserved populations at scale. Wadhwani AI partners with governments, frontline workers, and communities to create practical, last-mile innovations that increase access, equity, and measurable outcomes for millions of people.

📋 Description

• Build machine learning solutions to problems of societal importance under the guidance of senior ML scientists. • Participate in understanding stakeholder requirements, problem definition, model development, evaluation, and deployment of AI solutions. • Understand user challenges and their context. • Curate and transform data. • Adapt and evaluate models. • Design meaningful evaluation benchmarks. • Conduct experiments and derive insights from data. • Contribute to building reliable, scalable AI systems. • Work closely with engineering, solutions, domain experts, and designers. • Interact with social sector organisations and stakeholders to understand real-world needs and help ensure successful deployment of AI solutions. • Stay current with advances in LLMs and foundation models. • Explore new techniques and contribute to continuous improvement of the team's technical capabilities. • Learn from and share knowledge, ideas, and emerging practices with the team.

🎯 Requirements

• Passion for applying AI and machine learning to solve large societal challenges. • Bachelor's or Master's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Economics, or another quantitative discipline, with 1–4 years of relevant work or research experience. • Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience developing and applying machine learning models in an industry or research setting. • Demonstrated experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs) or foundation models through industry projects, research, or significant open-source contributions. • Strong understanding of deep learning fundamentals, including Transformer architectures, attention mechanisms, and modern representation learning techniques. • Experience with one or more LLM adaptation techniques such as supervised fine-tuning, parameter-efficient fine-tuning (e.g., LoRA/QLoRA), instruction tuning, preference optimization, retrieval-augmented systems, structured generation, or tool-using agents. • Experience designing and implementing evaluation methodologies for LLM systems, including benchmarking, model analysis, and iterative experimentation. • Solid software engineering skills in Python and experience with modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, or equivalent. • Experience building end-to-end ML systems, including data preparation, experimentation, model training, evaluation, and deployment. • Track record of applied machine learning projects addressing real-world problems. • Experience applying LLMs to practical use cases is highly desirable. • Experience building and evaluating conversational or multi-turn AI systems is a plus. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical Insurance • OPD Coverage • Accidental Insurance • Life Insurance • Employee Assistance Program • Annual Health Check-Ups • Onsite Medical Centers • Emergency Support System • Maternity Benefit • Travel Reimbursement for Expectant Mothers during Last Trimester • Paternity Benefit • Day Care Support Program • Travel Policy • Relocation and Deputation benefits • Employee PF Contribution • Gratuity • Leave Encashment • Unlimited Leave Policy • Professional Development Policy • Referral Bonuses • Internet and Telephone Allowance

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