Junior Research Developer - Biostatistics Cost Centre

Data Science team at St. John’s Research Institute, which builds research applications and develops and applies machine learning models to health research questions. The team works with high-performance compute infrastructure for data-intensive applications and machine learning experiments, and collaborates with multiple research teams to turn models into stable, reliable tools.

Salary : Rs. 40,000/- p.m

No of Vacancy :One

• The Junior Research Developer (Machine Learning) will support the team’s modelling work by running and benchmarking machine learning and deep learning models on HPC/GPU clusters (e.g., via SLURM) and reporting results such as accuracy, latency and GPU/memory utilisation.
• The role includes monitoring training and inference jobs and application/server logs to identify and fix failures and resource bottlenecks; assisting with data preprocessing, model training, evaluation and experiment tracking; debugging Python applications and APIs using logs and tracebacks; building RESTful APIs in Python to serve models; supporting testing and code reviews; and documenting experiments, benchmarks and code.
• Applicants should have strong Python skills (NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch or TensorFlow), working knowledge of Linux and of reading logs, a basic understanding of machine learning, and familiarity with a Python web framework (Flask, Django or FastAPI).
• Exposure to HPC, SLURM, Git, MLflow or Docker is an advantage.

Preferred Qualifications: MSc in Data Science, IT or Computer Science; or BTech in Computer Science or AI

Experience : Minimum Two years experience / Freshers acceptable

Preferred Language: English and Kannada

Tentative Date of Joining : 16th November 2026

To Apply: E-mail cover letter and curriculum vitae with 3 references (names and email addresses / phone numbers) by on or before 8th November 2026 to shameem.b@sjri.res.in & cc to hr@sjri.res.in