AI4Bharat
AI Research Engineer
- Location
- IIT Madras (Campus) / EkStep Foundation, Koramangala, Bangalore
- Stipend
- 50,000 - 90,000/month
- Type
- Full-time
About this role
Batch: 2022/2023/2024/2025. Role Type: - One-year full-time consultant role (extendable) with mentorship under Prof. Mitesh Khapra Responsibilities: - Fine-tune open-source ASR / TTS / MT models for dialects and low-resource language pairs - Work directly with deployment teams on production failures reported from population-scale platforms (agriculture, education, livelihoods) - Own eval pipelines (WER/CER, MOS, BLEU/ChrF/COMET), not just benchmarks Requirements: - 1–3 years building or fine-tuning models - Real LoRA/QLoRA/adapter and full fine-tuning judgment - Depth in at least one of ASR, TTS, or MT - Strong Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face Note: Mention the model/language pair worked on and GitHub link in your resume
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