Introduction
We seek applications from innovative researchers with machine learning and artificial intelligence expertise to join our Climate and Sustainability team. You will tackle challenges at the forefront of AI, advancing generative and multi-modal model AI for high-impact materials discovery, geospatial and climate-related applications. We seek creative, driven individuals who are comfortable tackling ambiguous challenges, eager to push the limits of what's possible, and committed to shaping the future of AI and sustainability. Applicants should submit a CV and a one-page cover letter that highlights your experience and passion for the research themes outlined.
Your role and responsibilities
As a member of our IBM Research team, you will explore novel research opportunities by addressing problems at the forefront of AI. Potential research topics include, but are not limited to:
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- Developing advanced AI architectures and algorithms to train, fine-tune, and apply generative models for multi-modal tasks, directly influencing high-impact industry sectors.
- Enhancing foundation models to solve real sustainability challenges, including specialised foundation models for domain applications as well as enhancing capabilities of general language models.
- Design and test single- or multi-agent AI systems using cutting-edge benchmarks or develop solutions tailored to business-critical use cases.
As part of the role, you must be comfortable identifying and defining research challenges, prototyping solutions, designing experimental conditions to test hypotheses, refining solutions, and communicating findings through patent applications and publications in top-tier conferences.
Required education
Doctorate Degree
Preferred education
None
Required technical and professional expertise
- Doctorate Degree in Computer Science (especially in Artificial Intelligence focusing on computer vision, LLMs, NLP, data. generation), Physics, Mathematics, or a closely related field.
- Demonstrated experience in benchmarking foundational models for real-world applications.
- Experience in machine learning and developing AI models in frameworks such as Pytorch, TensorFlow, FSDP, Ray, and so forth.
- Expertise in one or more AI areas, including transfer learning, model distillation, surrogate models, and reinforcement learning.
- Research experience in designing and developing domain-specific and/or generalisable models.
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Strong research skills in large AI models for geospatial and climate applications.
- Demonstrated experience in developing, training, and testing generative models, such as LLMs or multi-modal foundation models.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate research through publications or presentations in top-tier conferences such as NeurIPs, ICLR, AAAI, AGU, IGARSS.
- Preferred candidates will have global experience, strong cross-cultural communication skills, and proficiency in multiple languages relevant to key business regions.
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM Research is the organic growth engine of IBM and an innovation engine for our customers and partners. As part of this mission, IBM Research anticipates and examines 'What's Next in Computing' to ultimately create and integrate the technologies the world relies upon to solve big challenges and unlock new opportunities. We create and pioneer new markets for IBM, our partners and customers as exemplified in our ongoing quest to reach practical and large-scale quantum computing. Across IBM Research, we realize the power and potential to accelerate discovery with our partners and clients by combining the power of high performance computing, AI, and Quantum, all integrated through the hybrid cloud.
YOUR LIFE @ IBM
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Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
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ABOUT IBM
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Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
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