Junior Research Developer - Biostatistics Cost Centre

Posted on: 04 Nov 2026

Job Summary:

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

Key Responsibilities:

• 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.

Eligibility Criteria:

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