Sample profilesAI engineeringIndia and global

AI engineers with work you can trace from research to implementation

Training language models, evaluating AI applications and shipping computer vision features require different engineering strengths. These profiles make those differences visible through research, repositories and documented product work.

3
India
2
USA and Canada
1
Europe and UK
1
Australia
Experience areas
Model training · Multilingual AI · Computer vision · Evaluation
Regional coverage
3 India · 2 USA and Canada · 1 Europe and UK · 1 Australia

Illustrative profiles based on publicly documented professional work. Inclusion does not indicate availability or representation by Talhive.

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Profile AI-01 ML researcher and language model engineer India

Post training experience on Indian foundation models, backed by an accessible research CV

4yrs
Experience
Companies
Corporate research labnow an Indian foundation model company
Current work
ML researcher, language model post-training
Location
India
Selected work

An Indian foundation model company developing language models for local and enterprise use. Earlier experience includes a global consumer electronics research organisation.

  • His professional site identifies contributions to 30B and 105B mixture of experts models and work on supervised fine tuning and reinforcement learning.
  • His CV describes asynchronous training pipelines that separate generation, reward computation and policy updates.
  • Coauthored published research on transformer training stability, providing a separate technical record beyond the job description.
105B
parameters in the largest model post-trained
1,000
transformer layers trained stably in the published research
+21.6%
mathematics gain reported for a 24B model pipeline
Education
IIT BombayBTech, Computer Science with honours
Carnegie Mellon UniversityMS, Machine Learning
Career path
An Indian foundation model company · ML Researcher, LLM team
2025 to present
Carnegie Mellon University · MS, research assistant
2023 to 2024
A corporate research lab · Engineer, language and voice
2020 to 2023
Career context

MS in machine learning from Carnegie Mellon and an undergraduate computer science degree from IIT Bombay; his CV also records research engineering work in Seoul.

Relevant hiring mandate

A model team hiring for post training, reinforcement learning infrastructure and research implementation.

Profile AI-02 Multilingual language model researcher India

Coauthored language technology covering all 22 scheduled Indian languages

5yrs
Experience
Companies
University research centre, global research labnow an Indian foundation model company
Current work
ML researcher, multilingual models and evaluation
Location
India
Selected work

An Indian foundation model business, with an academic research record focused on low resource languages. His work spans translation, speech and multilingual model evaluation.

  • Coauthored IndicTrans2, a multilingual machine translation project supporting the 22 scheduled Indian languages.
  • His research record includes IndicLLMSuite, connecting language model development with the data resources required for Indian languages.
  • Subsequent work covers crosslingual evaluation and translation of long, structured material, extending the scope beyond short benchmark sentences.
49.7M
sentence pairs in a public parallel corpus, 11 languages
24
languages in a 20.9 billion token corpus and benchmark
2
outstanding paper awards at major NLP conferences
Education
IIIT Sri CityBTech, Electronics and Communication
IIT MadrasDoctoral research, on leave
Career path
An Indian foundation model company · ML Researcher
2025 to present
A national language AI research group · PhD researcher, with global lab internships
2021 to 2025
A university research centre · Post-baccalaureate fellow
2020 to 2021
Career context

His professional site records joining the foundation model company in April 2025 and taking leave from doctoral research at IIT Madras.

Relevant hiring mandate

A team developing multilingual assistants, translation systems or models for Indian language users.

Profile AI-03 Computer vision research scientist India

Research connected to a shipped image animation feature in creative software

7.5yrs
Experience
Companies
University research, US university postdocnow a global creative software research lab
Current work
Research scientist, computer vision
Location
India
Selected work

A global creative software company with research and product teams in Bengaluru. His specialism is computer vision, including controllable animation and generative visual experiences.

  • His professional research page connects CVPR 2022 image animation work to the Moving Elements feature released in a consumer photo editing product in 2023.
  • The associated research project exposes the authors and technical approach, making the research contribution independently inspectable.
  • His record bridges academic computer vision and a commercial editing workflow, giving the profile a concrete product connection.
~1,000
citations on a single compressive sensing paper
~25
patents issued or filed
7.5 yrs
in one industrial research lab
Education
NIT Karnataka SurathkalBS, Electrical Engineering
Arizona State UniversityPhD, Electrical Engineering
Career path
A global creative software research lab · Research Scientist
2019 to present
Carnegie Mellon University · Postdoctoral researcher
2017 to 2019
Arizona State University · Doctoral research
2012 to 2017
Career context

PhD in electrical engineering from Arizona State University, postdoctoral research at Carnegie Mellon and an undergraduate degree from NIT Karnataka.

Relevant hiring mandate

A creative AI or visual product team seeking research depth with documented product integration.

Profile AI-04 ML engineer and AI evaluation practitioner USA

Published work on evaluating AI systems, including a semantic code search benchmark

23yrs
Experience
Companies
Banking, consulting, analyticsaccommodation marketplace, developer platform, now independent
Current work
Independent ML engineer and AI evaluation practitioner
Location
USA
Selected work

An independent ML practitioner with earlier experience at a global developer platform and a global accommodation marketplace. His public work focuses on assessing model behaviour and improving AI applications.

  • Coauthored CodeSearchNet, a research benchmark spanning six programming languages and linking natural language queries with source code.
  • The accompanying engineering article explains why semantic code search needs evaluation beyond ordinary keyword matching.
  • His later public writing covers evaluation datasets, error analysis and model based judging for AI applications.
4.7/5
rating across 901 reviews of his AI evaluation course
5,000+
engineers and product managers taught
2.4K
GitHub stars on the code search dataset he first-authored
Education
Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science
University of MichiganJuris Doctor, 2008 to 2010
Career path
Own consulting practice · Independent ML engineer
2023 to present
A developer platform · Staff machine learning engineer
2017 to 2023
An accommodation marketplace · Data scientist
2016 to 2017
A global consulting firm · Vice President, applied analytics
2011 to 2015
Management consulting, then law · Consultant, then legal practice
2005 to 2010
A bank · Credit risk modelling
2003 to 2005
Career context

His professional GitHub identity records the earlier employers and a US location; his technical writing provides a sustained record of applied ML work.

Relevant hiring mandate

An applied AI team that needs to define quality, investigate failure patterns and build an evaluation practice.

Profile AI-05 Language model research engineer Switzerland

Evaluation and language model engineering, with a published technical book and open research

13yrs
Experience
Companies
University research and teachingSwiss data science roles, now an open model platform
Current work
Machine learning engineer, leads the post-training team
Location
Switzerland
Selected work

An open source AI platform supporting model development and sharing. His public professional profile places him in Switzerland and identifies language model post training work.

  • Coauthored research introducing a common evaluation framework and hub for machine learning models.
  • His public model platform profile exposes an ongoing connection to the organisation's research and engineering ecosystem.
  • His published interview discusses language models, reinforcement learning from human feedback and the practical tooling required to work with them.
325
models published on the open model hub
1
coauthored book on transformer models
1
first-authored paper on direct distillation of model alignment
Education
University of AdelaidePhD, Theoretical Physics
Career path
An open model platform · Machine learning engineer, post-training lead
2021 to present
Swiss data science companies · Lead data scientist, ML engineer, senior data scientist
2017 to 2021
University of Bern · Postdoctoral researcher
2013 to 2017
Career context

Coauthor of a technical book on natural language processing with transformers, with a background in theoretical physics and earlier applied machine learning.

Relevant hiring mandate

A language model team needing evaluation infrastructure and the ability to turn research methods into usable engineering workflows.

Profile AI-06 AI researcher and company cofounder Canada

A published neural network researcher who cofounded an enterprise AI company

10yrs
Experience
Companies
A global research labnow a language model company he cofounded
Current work
Cofounder, language model company
Location
Canada
Selected work

A Canadian enterprise AI business building language model products. This is a founder and research leadership example, with a technical publication record predating the company.

  • Coauthored Dynamic Routing Between Capsules, a neural network research paper with two other researchers.
  • The publication identifies his contribution to collaborative research on representing and routing visual features.
  • His subsequent company role connects research experience with building an enterprise AI business; that founder scope is distinct from an individual contributor vacancy.
12,446
citations across his published research
7,682
citations on the capsule networks paper he coauthored
$7B
reported valuation of the company he cofounded
Education
University of TorontoBSc, Computer Science and Cognitive Science
Career path
A language model company · Cofounder
2019 to present
A global research lab · Machine learning researcher
2016 to 2020
Career context

His public professional profile identifies Toronto and education at the University of Toronto; the university relationship is also confirmed in a company announcement.

Relevant hiring mandate

An AI organisation looking for a research founder or technical leadership benchmark alongside its engineering search.

Profile AI-07 Applied AI research founder and machine learning systems builder Australia

Coauthored a language model fine tuning method, then founded an applied AI research laboratory

Australia
Region
Companies
Global data science competition platformnow an applied AI research laboratory
Current work
Research, open source software and practical AI development
Location
Australia
Selected work

An applied AI research laboratory in Queensland, following leadership at a global data science competition platform.

  • Coauthored a 2018 paper on language model fine tuning for text classification, evaluated across six classification tasks.
  • The paper reported relative error reductions of 18 to 24 percent on most of those datasets. Those are paper specific results, not a claim about production models.
  • Cofounded an applied AI research laboratory focused on turning research into useful end user products, with earlier leadership at a data science competition platform.
6
text classification tasks the 2018 fine tuning paper evaluated
18 to 24%
relative error reduction reported on most of those datasets
Career path
An applied AI research laboratory · Founding chief executive
December 2023 to present
An Australian research university · Honorary professor
announced 2022
A language model fine tuning research paper · Coauthor
2018
A global data science competition platform · Leadership
dates not established
Career context

His public record documents the 2018 research paper, a 2022 honorary professor appointment at an Australian research university and the December 2023 launch of the research laboratory as founding chief executive. An honorary appointment is not an earned doctorate.

Relevant hiring mandate

A team that needs research literate AI engineering, where model adaptation and shipping to real users have to happen together.

Compare the experience

Seven examples, side by side.

Each row links to the full example. Regions follow the coverage split described above.

ProfileRegionResponsibility
AI-01ML researcher and language model engineerIndiaML researcher and language model engineer
AI-02Multilingual language model researcherIndiaMultilingual language model researcher
AI-03Computer vision research scientistIndiaComputer vision research scientist
AI-04ML engineer and AI evaluation practitionerUSAML engineer and AI evaluation practitioner
AI-05Language model research engineerSwitzerlandLanguage model research engineer
AI-06AI researcher and company cofounderCanadaAI researcher and company cofounder
AI-07Applied AI research founder and machine learning systems builderAustraliaApplied AI research founder and machine learning systems builder
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