Senior AI and Data Science Specialist
ABB
Software Engineering, Data Science
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Nov 25, 2025
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This Position reports to:
R&D Team Lead Your role and responsibilities:
In this role, you will have the opportunity to initiate and drive technology, software, product, and/or solution development using in-depth technical expertise in a specific area. Each day, you will act as the first point of contact in Research and Development (R&D) for in-depth product or technology-related issues. You will also showcase your expertise by supporting strategic corporate technology management and future product/software/solution architecture.
The work model for the role is: #LI-Hybrid
This role is contributing to the Motion Business Service Division in Bangalore, India
You will be mainly accountable for:
In this role, you will have the opportunity to initiate and drive technology, software, product, and/or solution development using in-depth technical expertise in a specific area. Each day, you will act as the first point of contact in Research and Development (R&D) for in-depth product or technology-related issues. You will also showcase your expertise by supporting strategic corporate technology management and future product/software/solution architecture.
The work model for the role is: #LI-Hybrid
This role is contributing to the Motion Business Service Division in Bangalore, India
You will be mainly accountable for:
- Conduct exploratory data analysis on time series data to support the design and development of robust algorithms.
- Stay abreast of cutting-edge advancements in AI, including Physics-Informed Models, Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic AI, and Digital Twin technologies.
- Apply state-of-the-art techniques to identify new use cases and enhance existing algorithms with minimal supervision.
- Continuously improve algorithm performance by designing validation methods and defining evaluation metrics.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders to productize solutions, unlock new business opportunities, and enable innovative use cases.
- Translate complex analytical concepts into clear, compelling narratives for non-technical stakeholders using storytelling and visualization.
- Lead experimentation, manage model versioning, and monitor performance in production environments.
- Work within a global agile development team, contributing to sprint planning, reviews, and continuous integration and mentor or guide junior data scientists, fostering a culture of learning and innovation.
Qualifications for the role:
- Experience: Minimum of 8 years of hands-on experience in key areas relevant to industrial AI and diagnostics with Master’s or Doctoral degree in Data Science, with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field. A strong academic track record is preferred.
- Proven expertise in developing detection, diagnostic, predictive, and recommendation models using statistical, mathematical, and machine learning techniques.
- Solid understanding of fault mechanisms in rotating equipment and condition monitoring of frequency converters.
- Proficiency in time series analysis, including FFT, wavelet transforms, and spectral analysis.
- Strong software development skills, preferably in Python. Familiarity with firmware development (e.g., C) and experience with Microsoft Azure DevOps is a plus and In-depth knowledge of machine learning, Generative AI, and Agentic AI concepts and applications.
- Understanding of IoT architectures, REST APIs, and data engineering tools. Experience with Docker, Kubernetes (for deployment), and firmware technologies is advantageous.
- Familiarity with LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, text generation, summarization, question answering (Q&A), conversational AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and Agentic AI frameworks.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to engage and collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders.
More about us:
ABB Motion Services helps customers around the globe by maximizing uptime, extending product life cycle, and enhancing the performance and energy efficiency of electrical motion solutions. We enable innovation and success through digitalization by securely connecting and monitoring our customers’ motors and drives, increasing operational uptime, and improving efficiency. We make the difference for our customers and partners every day by keeping their operations running profitably, safely and reliably.
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