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IBM Back-end Developer
India, Karnataka, Bengaluru
820252970

08.05.2024

Your Role and Responsibilities
The IMS AI team is looking for developers who show the initiative and thrive at tackling problems. The AI landscape as a whole is rapid paced and comes with ever developing requirements, which you as a developer would be required to help design and engineer solutions that innovate within that environment. This will include understanding AI principals with data manipulation and transformation, prompt engineering, and model validations as we look to build up high quality solutions. You will be applying the software engineering rigour to developments from IBM Research, ensuring proper processes and best practises are followed accordingly. Much of the existing technology stack exists in Java and Python, so the ability to shift between technologies and languages is important for this role.
Your main duties will include designing and implementing new features, optimising and maintaining existing code, and ensuring the software meets high-quality standards through testing and debugging. You will also work closely with other developers, designers, and product managers to ensure the software meets user needs.
What You’ll Do:

You’ll work in a dynamic, collaborative environment to understand requirements, design, code and test innovative AI solutions and demonstrate these solutions to our clients.
You’ll integrate with other teams across IBM to identify and build AI solutions that infuse and incorporate CICS portfolio.
You’ll employ IBM’s Design Thinking to validate user scenarios to develop solutions with high performance, security, quality, and stability.

Skills you will develop:

An understanding of AI technologies (especially foundation and Large Language Models (LLM))
Tackling the challenges of training, testing, benchmark, and validating AI generated content and code.
Becoming familiar with the business applications of AI and how the Watsonx platform brings value to IBM clients.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

3+ years experience in Java.
Have experience understanding APIs.
An interest in AI principles including prompt engineering, RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) data transformations and vectors, etc..
Strong and independent analytics and problem-solving skills.
Familiarity with git, other source control practises, and various development tools and IDE’s.
Understand what agile, DevOps and continuous delivery are.
Strong documentation/communication skills to manage work items.
Demonstrated written and verbal communication with the ability to present complex ideas to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Understanding of container technologies.
Have experience developing APIs.
An interest in z/OS and mainframe technologies. Any prior IMS knowledge is preferred but not required.
Experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) methodologies, such as Tekton or ArgoCD.
Agile Application Development & Scrum methodologies.
Understanding of programming language syntax and grammar.
Knowledge of COBOL and Python.
Skilled at defining test strategies that can include AI and non AI solutions.