Senior AI/ML Scientist

Pune

R&D – Engineering - Engineering /

Full Time Permanent /

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Everseen: A leader in vision AI solutions for the world’s leading retailers.

The Role

Acts as a scientific leader who defines and drives the AI research strategy for critical business domains.
Influences the company's technical direction, mentors across teams, and brings breakthrough ideas from fundamental research to production.

Responsibilities:

Defines and Oversees Research Strategy

Sets the long-term research vision for major projects or entire product areas.
Oversees the scientific direction of end-to-end project delivery, ensuring alignment with strategic corporate goals.

Pioneers Breakthrough Innovations

Moves beyond existing paradigms to invent and develop fundamentally new AI methodologies.
Proposes and leads architecture-wide improvements based on emerging scientific insights.

Excels at Scientific Leadership and Mentorship

Shapes the organization's scientific culture.
Excels at coaching other scientists and technical leaders, setting the standard for research practices, and resolving scientific and technical conflicts.

Drives High-Impact Cross-Functional Initiatives

Regularly leads and influences the most critical, high-impact collaborations between research, product, and engineering. Is accountable for the successful application of research to solve key business challenges.

Acts as a Voice for the Scientific Community

Represents the company's research interests both internally and externally.
Authors and reviews papers for top-tier academic publications, building the company's reputation for innovation.

Demonstrates Deep Business Acumen

Possesses an excellent, nuanced understanding of how scientific investments and research directions impact the broader business, influencing product strategy and long-term roadmaps.

Intellectual Property

Translate complex AI systems into robust, legally defensible claims while ensuring alignment with company IP strategy.

Candidate Profile & Requirements

Profile and Skills

Critical Skills

Domain Mastery: Recognized as a leading internal expert in a specific AI sub-field, with the ability to contribute to the state of the art.

Invention of Novel Techniques: Proven ability to invent and develop new algorithms, architectures, and methodologies from first principles to solve unique, complex problems.

AI System & Architectural Design: The ability to design and reason about end-to-end AI systems, including data pipelines, model interactions, and infrastructure at scale.

Large-Scale Program Design: The ability to scope, structure, and plan complex, multi-faceted research programs that may span multiple quarters or years.

Advanced Theoretical Modeling: The capacity to engage with, critique, and contribute to the deep theoretical underpinnings of machine learning.

Experience:- 5+ Years

Education:- PhD Track or PhD

Competencies for Success

Strategic Thinking: Defines long-term research roadmaps that anticipate future business needs and technological shifts, ensuring AI strategy creates a sustainable competitive advantage.

Influence & Leadership: Inspires and guides teams (often without direct authority) toward a compelling technical vision, driving consensus among senior leaders on critical decisions.

Navigating Ambiguity: Thrives in and provides clarity to highly unstructured and high-risk problem spaces, confidently defining the path forward where none exists.

Business Acumen: Demonstrates a deep, intuitive understanding of the market, product viability, and financial implications of research, consistently connecting scientific work to business impact.

Scientific Diplomacy: Skillfully manages and resolves high-stakes scientific debates and technical conflicts, fostering a collaborative and intellectually rigorous environment.

Organizational Impact: Looks beyond their own team to identify and drive improvements in technology, processes, and culture that benefit the entire R&D organization.

About Everseen

Shrink and inefficiency cost global retailers more than a hundred billion dollars each year. But Everseen is changing that equation. We are a leader in vision AI, transforming business operations for global retailers by reducing shrink, improving operations, and delivering a better customer experience.

Supporting 11 of the top 20 global retailers, Everseen’s AI innovations help retailers save millions of dollars every month. Its flagship product, Evercheck, is deployed in 10,000 retail stores and 150,000 checkouts globally. Everseen operates at unmatched scale, processing over 15 million transactions, and more than six petabytes of video data, daily.

Trusted by major food, drug, mass, and specialty retailers around the world - including Kroger, Meijer, and Woolworths - we also partner with leading hardware, AI, and cloud computing providers such as Google, NVIDIA, NCR, and Dell.

Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Cork, Ireland, Everseen has over 700 employees globally, with a European headquarters in Cork, Ireland, a U.S. headquarters in Miami, and hubs in Romania, Serbia, India, Australia, and Spain.

We are a dedicated team of inventors, research scientists, engineers, AI experts and retail industry veterans. Our culture is built on accountability, collaboration, and high standards. We take ownership of outcomes, prioritise our customers, operate as one team, move quickly with purpose, and continually raise the bar in everything we deliver.

Our Culture

Our culture is built on ownership and accountability, we own outcomes, not tasks. We stay relentlessly customer-first, letting their needs shape our priorities and decisions.

We work as one team: we challenge ideas, align quickly, and commit together. We move with pace, without compromising on simplicity or quality. And every day, we raise the bar, strengthening our talent, pushing innovation forward, and maximizing our impact.

Our Values

We OWN THE OUTCOME. No silos, no excuses.

We ARE CUSTOMER-FIRST. They guide our decisions.

We ARE ONE TEAM. Debate, decide, commit.

We MOVE WITH PACE. With simplicity and quality.

We RAISE THE BAR. On talent, innovation and impact.

Our Commitment

Everseen is committed to creating an environment where everyone can succeed. Our employees should feel a sense of belonging, have an opportunity to grow their careers, and feel free to be their most authentic selves. Everseen takes great pride in the diversity of its global workforce, and insists upon a safe, inclusive workplace where our differences are our collective strength. We treat each other with dignity, and respect, and require all employees, officers, and directors to seek to understand the importance and value to Everseen of diversity, and inclusion.

Everseen is committed to creating a safe environment for all employees and has a zero tolerance policy for bias and discrimination of any kind. Our work environment is one without offensive, hostile, or intimidating conduct, whether verbal, written or physical, in nature. Everseen will not tolerate prejudice or discrimination of any kind including without limitation, where based on aspects such as, race, colour, sex, gender, religion, age, family status, disability of any kind, sexual orientation.

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