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Job Title: Lead Scientist
Req Id: 110790
City: Chennai
State/Province: Tamil Nadu
Posting Start Date: 11/12/25
Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients' most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.
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Responsibilities:

• Architect and lead the development of AI models that integrate multimodal data (text + image) for product classification, attribute extraction, and vision-text consistency validation.
• Design and evolve taxonomy intelligence frameworks, including canonical entity graphs, category hierarchies, and attribute contracts for retail product data.
• Build and optimize CLIP-style embedding models to assess image-category similarity and detect mismatches between product visuals and descriptions.
• Design scalable LLM-based pipelines for zero/few-shot classification, brand normalization, and policy enforcement across diverse product types.
• Lead the creation of graph-based reasoning systems for alias resolution, brand variants, and hierarchical relationships (e.g., "Yoga" ? "Lenovo Yoga").
• Collaborate with data engineers, search relevance teams, and business stakeholders to ensure taxonomy and multimodal intelligence are tightly integrated into the search and ranking pipeline.
• Guide the development of data quality scoring systems using multimodal confidence metrics and taxonomy correctness.
• Mentor a team of AI scientists and engineers, providing technical leadership, code reviews, and strategic direction.
• Drive experimentation and active learning strategies to continuously improve model performance and reduce manual review load.
• Ensure scalability and cost-efficiency through model distillation, caching, and tiered inference strategies.

Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience in applied AI/ML, with a strong focus on multimodal learning, taxonomy modeling, or knowledge graphs.
• Deep expertise in LLMs (e.g., GPT, T5, LLaMA) and VLMs (e.g., CLIP, BLIP, Flamingo) for classification, embedding generation, and cross-modal alignment.
• Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers, OpenCLIP.
• Hands-on experience with graph databases (e.g., Neo4j, Amazon Neptune) and graph algorithms for entity resolution and taxonomy mapping.
• Strong understanding of semantic similarity, embedding-based retrieval, and zero-shot learning techniques.
• Good to have - experience deploying models in production using MLOps tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow, SageMaker).
• Familiarity with retail product data, e-commerce taxonomies, and consumer search behavior.
• Proven leadership in guiding cross-functional teams and mentoring junior scientists.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to translate complex AI concepts into business impact.

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• Provides technical and strategic input during the project planning phase in the form of technical architectural designs and recommendation
• Collaborates with all relevant parties in order to review the objectives and constraints of solutions and determine conformance with the Enterprise Architecture
• Identifies implementation risks and potential impacts

2.Enable Delivery Teams by providing optimal delivery solutions/ frameworks

• Build and maintain relationships with executives, technical leaders, product owners, peer architects and other stakeholders to become a trusted advisor
• Develops and establishes relevant technical, business process and overall support metrics (KPI/SLA) to drive results
• Manages multiple projects and accurately reports the status of all major assignments while adhering to all project management standards
• Identify technical, process, structural risks and prepare a risk mitigation plan for all the projects
• Ensure quality assurance of all the architecture or design decisions and provides technical mitigation support to the delivery teams
• Recommend tools for reuse, automation for improved productivity and reduced cycle times
• Leads the development and maintenance of enterprise framework and related artefacts
• Develops trust and builds effective working relationships through respectful, collaborative engagement across individual product teams
• Ensures architecture principles and standards are consistently applied to all the projects
• Ensure optimal Client Engagement

• Support pre-sales team while presenting the entire solution design and its principles to the client
• Negotiate, manage and coordinate with the client teams to ensure all requirements are met and create an impact of solution proposed
• Demonstrate thought leadership with strong technical capability in front of the client to win the confidence and act as a trusted advisor

Mandatory Skills: AI Cognitive .
Experience: 8-10 Years .
Reinvent your world. We are building a modern Wipro. We are an end-to-end digital transformation partner with the boldest ambitions. To realize them, we need people inspired by reinvention. Of yourself, your career, and your skills. We want to see the constant evolution of our business and our industry. It has always been in our DNA - as the world around us changes, so do we. Join a business powered by purpose and a place that empowers you to design your own reinvention.
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