Associate AI/ML Engineer

Join ABB in Bengaluru/Bangalore, India, as an Associate AI/ML Engineer, contributing to our Process Automation business within Energy Industries. Reporting to the Technology Manager, this role offers the opportunity to act as a design authority on projects of low to medium complexity, completing assignments cost-effectively and applying basic design thinking principles.

Key Responsibilities:

• AI/ML Model Development: Design and implement supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning models for predictive analytics, classification, and optimization across engineering and operational domains.
• Advanced Data Engineering: Build scalable data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and labeling using tools like Airflow, Kafka, and Databricks, ensuring data quality, lineage, and consistency.
• Model Deployment & MLOps: Deploy and monitor AI/ML models in production using Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure ML; implement continuous learning loops and model explainability frameworks.
• Agentic AI & Intelligent Systems: Develop autonomous AI agents with reasoning and decision-making capabilities; integrate LLMs, knowledge graphs, and orchestration frameworks for hybrid AI solutions.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with domain experts to translate business and engineering challenges into AI-driven solutions; contribute to internal AI communities and reusable asset libraries.
• Governance & Compliance: Ensure adherence to data governance, cybersecurity, and ethical AI standards; maintain thorough documentation and reproducibility across all AI initiatives.

Qualifications:

• Education & Experience: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical, Electronics, Instrumentation, or a related engineering field, with 2-5 years of experience in AI/ML engineering, data science, or applied machine learning.
• Programming & Model Development: Strong proficiency in Python with hands-on experience in developing, fine-tuning, and deploying ML/DL models using frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, or Hugging Face.
• Machine Learning & Generative AI: Solid understanding of ML theory, statistical modeling, feature engineering, and data preprocessing; familiarity with NLP and LLM-based agent frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, or Semantic Kernel.
• API Development & Data Engineering: Experience in building REST APIs, integrating ML models into enterprise applications, and automating pipelines using FastAPI, Flask, or Airflow; strong knowledge of SQL, NoSQL, and Graph databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j).
• MLOps & Deployment: Exposure to containerization and deployment tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure ML; understanding of data versioning, ETL automation, and metadata management using tools like DVC, MLflow, or Databricks.
• Industrial AI & Preferred Skills: Experience in time-series analysis, predictive maintenance, and anomaly detection; awareness of industrial protocols (OPC-UA, Modbus, MQTT); familiarity with cloud AI platforms, vector databases, digital twins, and CI/CD practices; strong analytical and communication skills.

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