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Calling Innovators

IBM Research - India, located in Delhi and Bangalore, is looking for outstanding researchers in computer science and related areas who want to work on real-world problems leading to solutions that make a direct and measurable impact. We are seeking applications for Researcher level positions from fresh and experienced researchers in the areas of information and knowledge management, interaction and collaboration technologies, systems management, distributed and high performance computing, software engineering, analytics and optimization, services innovation, and telecommunications. Successful candidates should have a PhD in computer science or equivalent, and an exceptional track record demonstrated by publications, patents, and technical impact. Candidates having Master’s degree with an exceptional record may also be considered. IBM Research - India also offers internship to students, both from Indian institutes and foreign universities.

The Analytics and Optimization (A&O) group at IBM Research - India specializes in the development and application of novel predictive analytics, mathematical optimization and data mining methodology and algorithms to create new differentiated offerings for IBM’s solutions and services such as smarter cities, smarter organizations, and business analytics. Recent examples of successful applications include ‘acoustic-sensing based traffic prediction,’ ‘resiliency modeling of service delivery organizations,’ and dynamic scheduling for mining operations. We are seeking world-class candidates for research scientist positions to work on a broad array of projects in the following topic areas:

• Mathematical Programming
• Statistical Modeling (Time Series Analysis and Forecasting)
• Data Mining
• Stochastic Modeling & Analysis
• Discrete Event Simulation
• Supply-chain Management
• Software Architectures for Analytics
• Machine Learning
• Theory and Algorithms
• Ontology and Semantic Modeling

We are looking for individuals with strong research backgrounds in relevant areas of Computer Science, Operations Research, Statistics, Mathematics or related fields. The candidates should have an excellent publication record, as evidenced by papers in high-quality conferences and journals, strong written and oral communication skills, excellent programming skills, and exposure to implementation of practical systems. In additional domain skills in areas such as customer analytics, marketing analytics, supply chain, production planning, or industry skills in industries such as Financial Services, Telecom, Retail would be preferred. Additionally, candidates displaying the following characteristics will have an obvious advantage:

• Analytical bent of mind
• Creativity in defining challenging exploratory projects
• Ability to perform independent research
• Interest in translating business problems to research
• Excellent programming skills
• Great team spirit
• Inclination to interact with academic and professional communities
• Drive for taking research initiatives towards business impact

Our Focus:

Research projects in areas including analytics, data management, software engineering, systems management, high performance computing, and industry solutions.

Several open positions in Cloud Computing Research

We believe that Cloud Computing is a disruptive model that will have a substantial impact on enterprises and the consumer market alike. We believe that the opportunities for Cloud especially in growth markets such as India has a potential for a tremendous uptake on innovation as well as new business opportunities, but comes with challenges considering the immense scale of the society and the business eco-system. Finally, as Cloud Computing is currently a concept driven by the IT industry, we believe it is necessary to reflect on fundamentally understanding Cloud at a conceptual level to impact how we will bring up future generations of engineers and scientists to embrace and advance this field.

We are interested in individuals who are passionate about driving leading edge industrial & academic research in this emerging field. The areas of our interest spread across various aspects of Cloud Computing, such as Cloud infrastructure, optimal placement, standardization, and migration of enterprise applications to various Cloud architectures. The selected candidates will be able to do original research and at the same time contribute to IBM Cloud technology offerings.

We are seeking interested candidates with experience in at least one of the following technologies:

1. Virtualization: in-depth knowledge of virtualization techniques as applied by VMware, kvm, Xen etc.
2. Expertise in network virtualization and systems research
3. Cloud computing: hands-on expertise in existing cloud computing technologies, specifically infrastructure-as-a-service or platform-as-a-service.
4. Service-oriented Architecture: In-depth understanding of service-oriented computing and its applicability to the systems domain
5. Distributed Applications: background in distributed application with a focus on scalability and performance management

Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering or related fields required. Candidates with Master’s degree in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering or related fields with up to 5 years industry experience
• Candidates with at least 5-10 years of industry experience (PhD preferred) and a proven innovation track record will be considered for more senior positions

Several open positions in Enterprise Collaboration

Enterprise collaboration has been on the mind of business executives since the advent of collaboration technologies and even more so as mobile devices have been widely adopted as standard distribution channels for enterprise applications. The challenge however is to understand how to make all these tools and technologies useful to drive higher business outcomes in more agile work processes. We believe that enterprise collaboration can revolutionize the way how enterprises organize work and at the same time tighten relationships with clients. We also believe that standard public frameworks for collaboration such as facebook, LinkedIn, google+ etc. are not suitable to enable enterprise collaboration; industry and academia alike must innovate in this space of enabling collaboration in highly constraint environments such as large enterprises. Finally, we believe that effective usage of social computing techniques have the potential to introduce disruptive changes in the way we work.

We are seeking candidates for Researcher level positions with IBM Research – India. The areas of interest in this area of enterprise collaboration span from application of mobile applications, middleware, collaboration tools, social computing concepts and other. The selected candidate is expected to drive innovations in the space of enterprise collaboration that make a difference and will have the opportunity to deploy innovations in real world enterprise environments.

We are seeking interested candidates with experience in at least one of the following technologies:

1. Mobile technologies, including mobile platforms such as iOS, Android, etc., mobile devices
2. Social computing: social computing analytics and concepts
3. Service-oriented computing: SOA methods, web services and business process management and automation

Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering or related fields required.
• Candidates with Master’s degree in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering or related fields with up to 5 years industry experience
• Candidates with at least 5-10 years of industry experience (PhD preferred) and a proven innovation track record will be considered for more senior positions

The Human Language Technologies (HLT) group at IBM Research - India specializes in developing statistical modeling and machine learning techniques to solve problems in natural language processing, speech analytics, spoken dialog systems, machine translation, information extraction and information retrieval.

Example projects we are working on are: (a) iSAGE: An exploratory project with the goal of building an interactive system for problem solving using a combination of data sources such as manuals, forums, support articles and customer-agent transcripts; (b) Voice of Customer Analytics (VOCA): A project linking together heterogenous structured and unstructured information and using techniques such as clustering, sentiment mining, predictive modeling to provide actionable insights.

We are currently looking to hire a few outstanding researchers in our group. Responsibilities of a researcher include conducting basic and applied research on a wide array of text and speech analytics projects. Researchers are expected to maintain strong academic credentials through publications, external collaborations, and service to the research community as well as contribute to IBM business units via well-motivated applied research.

Qualifications for Research Scientist:

• PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or related fields
• Strong academic record with publications in top conferences and journals
• Research experience in, and strong familiarity with HLT focus areas; industrial research internships a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to formulate and solve abstract problems derived from real-world applications
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a team
• Excellent programming skills

Researcher- Information management and analytics

The Information Management and Analytics group at IBM Research is seeking applications for Researcher and fixed-term Postdoc positions from fresh and experienced researchers with a PhD in Computer Science from a reputed institution in the areas of database systems, information retrieval, knowledge/information management, information extraction, data/text mining, analytics, cloud computing, or related topics. The candidate should have research orientation and a proven track record in identifying and solving research challenges specific to the area of research. The candidate should also have a strong record of publications in leading conferences and journals. Our current areas of interest include:

• Managing uncertain data at scale, including issues relating to data quality and analytics over uncertain enterprise, web, sensor and human-generated data
• Data fusion, ETL, information integration and analytics over structured and unstructured multimodal data
• Systems, frameworks, and techniques for scalable information extraction, indexing, and search over massive volumes of unstructured and semi-structured data
• Large-scale data/text mining by leveraging scale-out platforms such as Hadoop
• Advanced business intelligence, data mining and predictive analytics for various domains such as marketing, banking, etc
• Spatio-temporal and geo-spatial data analysis
• Core database technologies

The candidate is expected to generate novel ideas as well as invent or design complex products and processes; engineer these ideas to an advanced state of feasibility by evaluating them and participating in their implementation; connect to other business units and customers to identify and understand business problems and pain points; and represent IBM at professional forums and in professional societies.

IBM Research - India is actively looking for strong systems, networking and inter-disciplinary Researchers for our systems department.

Opportunities include regular Researcher positions (at all levels) and fixed-time positions (eg: post-doc). Our areas of interest for hires include:

• Data center networking / systems
  Data center networking for complex data center environments will be an important focus area - Opportunities exist for disruptive innovations through software defined networking (SDN) and OpenFlow, co-optimization of computation, storage & networking, network-aware VM management. Networking for cloud is a sub-topic.
• Wireless Systems
  IBM is driving a new internal initiative called "Smarter Wireless" also known as "Wireless / IT Convergence". This area involves application of a variety of information technology (IT) principles, building blocks, and approaches to address the next decade of challenges in wireless datanetworking. Sample topics include Wireless network cloud, converged IT/wireless appliances, and Machine-Machine (M2M) communications/systems.
• High Performance Analytics Systems
  High performance analytics for massive datasets on next generation multi-core/many-core clusters is an important research area. This research group works on design and optimization of parallel algorithms for high performance computational platforms including supercomputers such Blue Gene/P and many-core clusters as well as hybrid multi-core architectures including GPUs as well as GPU clusters. The application domains of these parallel kernels include Telecom/Wireless Analytics, Healthcare Analytics, Computational Biology and Computational Geophysics. Another key area of research is the design and optimization of distributed run-time and scheduling systems for massive scale architectures including map-reduce frameworks such Map-Reduce (Hadoop) and distributed scheduling of parallel computation DAGs.
• Cyber-physical Systems
  The Smarter Energy group at IBM Research - India is seeking applications for Researchers and experienced Software Engineers. The group performs interdisciplinary research to apply computer science techniques to address energy issues with a particular focus on power grids. The projects span the entire power supply chain from renewable energy sources to building energy efficiency to microgrids to grid reliability to demand response management. The group collaborates with other IBM Research Labs and several top academic institutes, with clients from India, Australia, USA, ASEAN countries etc.
• High Performance Computing
  The HPC group at IRL is engaged in the design and analysis of cutting edge parallel programs and models and in improving the performance of engineering, scientific, and business applications on high performance platforms such as the IBM Blue Gene Supercomputer and Power-processor based clusters. The group is focused on areas based on performance on multi-core processors, performance on large-scale supercomputers, performance on clusters, medical imaging applications and parallel scalable algorithms for supercomputers. A major focus of the group is on modeling and simulation of weather and hydrology applications. Examples of problems that we are addressing include:
• Weather and hydrology modeling
• Optimization of parallel benchmarks on novel supercomputing (peta-flop) architectures
• Algorithms for MPI collectives on large-scale Supercomputers/clusters.

Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Power Systems required.
• Candidates with Master’s degree in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Power Systems and relevant experience could also be considered on an exceptional basis
• Research background in one or more of these areas will be considered a plus:
  • Smart Grids
  • Machine Learning/Data Mining
  • Pervasive, Context Aware computing etc.
  • Data Visualization
  • High Performance Computing
  • parallel/distributed algorithm design
  • Optimization
  • Algorithms and data structures
• A record of publishing in the top most conferences and journals

The Programming Technologies and Software Engineering department at IBM Research - India is seeking applications, for permanent Researcher and fixed-term Postdoc positions, from fresh and experienced researchers with a PhD in Computer Science, and a good track record, demonstrated by publications, patents, and technical impact.

Our current areas of interest include :

• Program analysis and its applications to program understanding, debugging and testing
• Mining of information from software repositories; empirical software engineering model-driven development
• Collaborative software development and large-scale project management.

Candidates with an Master’s degree and an aptitude for working in a research environment are also encouraged to apply. A strong interest in industrial research and building complex software systems is a must. As a member of the research team, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with some of the best minds in IBM, work with India's premier academic research institutions, and deploy your methods and tools to the vast network of IBM practitioners. Researchers are expected to publish their work at the top conferences in their field.

For more information on the lab kindly visit our homepage www.research.ibm.com/irl/ or send in your CV’s to careeirl@in.ibm.com.

The Software and Service Engineering (SSE) group at IBM Research - India is seeking applications for full-time Research positions at its Bangalore facility. The group's mission is to develop tools, methods and analytics to help IBM's large application services business standardize and optimize operations, adopt innovative models for global delivery, leverage predictive capabilities for planning and estimation, and increase service delivery productivity. Researchers with experience in one or more of the following topics are encouraged to apply:

• Globally distributed software development
• Empirical software engineering
• Risk analysis and management
• Planning and scheduling
• Metrics and estimation
• Service-oriented computing.

We also seek applications from researchers with a background in multi-disciplinary research relevant to software and service engineering - for example, applications of statistics, machine learning, operations research, stochastic processes and economics to software engineering, delivery and governance.

The applicant should have a PHD\Doctoral degree in a relevant area from a reputed university, and should have demonstrated capability for high quality research, as evidenced from publications in top scientific journals and conference proceedings.

There has been a tremendous growth in the penetration of the mobile phones in the recent years. Moreover, there has been significant progress in the computing power, memory, display and other features of mobile phones.

IBM Research - India has a strong focus focuses on this exciting area of mobile computing and challenges of the Telecommunication industry with the goal of creating innovative solutions and platforms.

Job description:

Expertise in one or more of the areas below:

• Enabling IT for Emerging Economies utilizing the Mobile Platform
• Telecom and Mobile Analytics
• Telecom Infrastructure and Middleware
• Mobile Cloud
• Mobile Security
• Mobile Application Development Environments and Delivery Platforms
• Context-aware Services
• Machine to Machine
• Mobile enabled Industry Solutions (such as Retail, Finance, etc.)
• Mobile HCI

Required skills:

• Must have a strong record of publications and/or a strong record of designing/building complex systems
• Strong communication skills – written and oral

Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering required.
• An M.S. with significant experience may also be considered