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Job Title : Senior Scientist Take your next career step at ABB with a global team that is energizing the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. At ABB, we have the clear goal of driving diversity and inclusion across all dimensions: gender, LGBTQ+, abilities, ethnicity and generations. Together, we are embarking on a journey where each and every one of us, individually and collectively, welcomes and celebrates individual differences. You will be working as Senior Scientist and will be part of Process Automation Business Area for BA Function Technology Division based in Bangalore, India. In this role you will be reporting to R&D Department Lead and will be a part of ABB India Corporate Research Center, co-located with ABB\'s largest global software development and engineering units. INCRC performs research and develops technologies and concepts for ABB\'s global businesses working towards realizing a more productive and sustainable future. We collaborate with various ABB corporate research centers globally and academic institutes in India. You will work in dynamic and creative teams with a wide range of experience and expertise. You will work in applied research projects developing innovative Control and Artificial Intelligence technologies toward building intelligent autonomous systems for Industry, Transport, and Infrastructure sectors. Your responsibilities : Requirements gathering and identification of use cases to aim towards fully autonomous process plants, and minimizing expert interventions in designing, deploying, and maintaining advanced control applications Evaluation of the state-of-the-art Control and Artificial Intelligence approaches and/ or development of a new approach for identified use cases Development of a proof of concepts, prototypes, and support in pilot evaluation and productization of solutions Communication of project results to Technical experts and Management Creation of Intellectual property (invention disclosures) and publications in scientific journals and conferences Travel to customer sites, and ABB locations on a need basis Your background : Ph.D. or master\'s degree in Chemical/ Control/ Electrical/ Instrumentation/ Mechanical engineering with a strong publication and patent record Ph.D. with 6+ years of experience or master\'s with 10+ years of Experience, Industrial research experience is preferred Experience in the development of a model-based or model-free controllers, such as model predictive control, approximate dynamic programming, and reinforcement learning Knowledge of operation and control in the process industry e.g. Oil and Gas, Pulp and Paper, Metals, etc is preferred Good knowledge of deep learning, reinforcement learning, supervised and unsupervised learning, multivariate statistics, time-series analysis, signal processing, and related areas Experience in the usage of Machine learning for the development of predictive maintenance, diagnosis, and monitoring solutions with proficiency in Matlab, Python, R programming languages Ability to communicate effectively in English with internal and external partners including the academic community

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