Research Engineer – Neuro-Symbolic AI (Knowledge Graphs) & Multimodal Assistant Systems

Role Overview

Bosch Global Software Technologies Private Limited is a 100% owned subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH, serving as a global technology powerhouse. This role focuses on conducting cutting-edge research in Neuro-Symbolic AI, integrating formal knowledge representations like knowledge graphs with modern machine learning and deep learning to develop multimodal assistant systems.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research in Neuro-Symbolic AI, focusing on the integration of knowledge graphs with machine learning.
• Design multimodal data pipelines integrating text, structured data, and visual or sensor information.
• Develop knowledge-driven AI systems with natural language interaction for explainable and trustworthy AI.
• Integrate Neuro-Symbolic reasoning with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal foundation models.
• Design and evolve semantic assets such as ontologies, knowledge graphs, and symbolic rules.
• Prototype, evaluate, and validate research concepts through experiments and benchmarks.
• Collaborate with international, cross-disciplinary teams to apply innovations to business scenarios.
• Publish research findings in top-tier conferences and contribute to intellectual property.

Requirements

• Ph.D., M.S., or M. Tech in Computer Science or related fields (NLP, Linguistics, AI, Cognitive Science) from top institutes like IITs, IIITs, or IISc.
• At least 3 years of relevant professional or applied research experience.
• Expertise in Neuro-Symbolic AI Architectures and hybrid AI systems.
• Proficiency in building data pipelines for multi-modal integration.
• Practical experience with NLP frameworks such as Hugging Face Transformers, spaCy, NLTK, or Gensim.
• Experience in extracting structured knowledge using NER and Relation Extraction.
• Experience with graph libraries like RDFlib, KGLab, or PyTorch Geometric.
• Ability to use visualization tools like Gephi or D3.js.

Skills

• PyTorch Geometric
• Hugging Face Transformers
• Knowledge Graphs
• NLP
• Neuro-Symbolic AI