Senior Engineer, AI/Machine Learning

Location: India-Pune

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Edwards Lifesciences is expanding its global technology capabilities with the launch of a new IT Innovation Hub in Pune, India. The Hub strengthens the technology foundation that supports our business worldwide, working in close partnership with teams across regions to deliver reliable, high-quality solutions at scale.

Designed as a long-term investment, the Pune Hub will advance newer digital capabilities such as automation, data, AI, and cloud, and will include roles spanning end user services, application development, and enterprise platform teams.

Together, these teams will help Edwards operate more efficiently

and accelerate innovation in support of our mission of advancing patient care.

How will you make an impact:

• Provide highly complex design, development and deployment of scalable and efficient AI/ML models both for prototyping purposes as well as for production deployment.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (data scientists, software engineers, product managers, business leads) to define requirements and ideate solutions using AI/ML frameworks.

• Participate in agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups and demo prototypes or milestone updates when necessary

• Drive research and experimentation to explore new AI/ML techniques, tools, and frameworks.

• Build end-to-end data pipelines for collecting, processing, and analyzing large-scale datasets.

• Ensure code and model development are well-documented and follow best engineering practices.

• Improve and optimize the performance of models, ensuring robustness, scalability, and efficiency.

• Other incidental duties

What you'll need (Required):

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or technical field.

• 4 years experience in Software Development or Engineering demonstrably solid performance in a role working with cross-functional teams (within IT and/or within the business) on enterprise-level or complex/novel system implementations Required

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, C++, or similar.

• Experience with machine learning libraries and frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Keras, etc.).

• Strong understanding of machine learning algorithms, statistics, and data structures.

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Cloud Infrastructure services for model deployment and data storage.

• Familiarity with big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, or similar tools is a plus.

• Solid experience with version control systems (Git) and agile development methodologies.

• Experience with deep learning techniques (e.g., CNNs, RNNs, GANs, etc.).

• Knowledge of data engineering practices and tools like Apache Kafka, Airflow, etc.

What else we look for (Preferred):

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.

• Excellent problem solving skills

• Strict attention to detail

• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment

• Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control