Is AI Research Scientist actually your fit?

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AI Research Scientist

Technology

AI Research Scientists design and execute original research that advances the theoretical and empirical foundations of machine learning — publishing at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, and ACL, not just consuming papers. In India, the role is concentrated at a small number of world-class labs: Microsoft Research India (Bengaluru), Google Research India (Bengaluru), Adobe Research (Noida/Bengaluru), IBM Research India (Bengaluru), Samsung Research India, and the research arms of AI-native startups such as Sarvam AI and Krutrim. IIT and IISc faculty positions running sponsored research labs represent a parallel track with different compensation structures. A typical project spans 6-18 months — literature survey, hypothesis formulation, experimental design in PyTorch or JAX on GPU clusters, ablation studies, paper writing in LaTeX, peer review, and conference presentation. The role is PhD-typical: candidates without a PhD are routinely asked to demonstrate equivalent publication depth via preprints or workshop papers.

What you'll do

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Career Interests
7 min
Tells us if the day-to-day activities of this role energize you.
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Personality Profile
8 min
Reveals whether the working style this role demands fits how you naturally show up.

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The 2-3 reasons it fits (or doesn't), based on what this role actually demands.
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