ixigo is an AI-based travel app that helps millions of users plan and book their trips every day. Launched in 2007, ixigo is proud to have built numerous industry-first AI-innovations over the last decade. With pre-emptive help from ixigo at every touch-point of their journey, 150 million Indians are now making smarter travel decisions every year. ixigo uses Artificial Intelligence for deal discovery, personalized recommendations, dynamic marketing, airfare predictions, train delay information, PNR confirmation status, infrastructure cost optimization, business intelligence and providing fully-automated customer service over chat and voice. This makes ixigo a lean, tech-intensive and capital-efficient travel business, serving millions of travelers with a team size of under 200. Founded in 2007 by Aloke Bajpai & Rajnish Kumar, ixigo’s investors include Sequoia Capital India, Fosun RZ Capital, SAIF Partners, MakeMyTrip & Micromax.

As a Research Engineer, you will be responsible for research & innovation, design & development of prototypes and ensuring timely evolution of prototypes into products. The primary objective of this role will be to ensure the constant launch on innovative products for online travel consumers with the help of a small team of highly qualified research technologists / developers.

Skills & Qualifications:

• At least an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics preferably from IITs/Tier-I colleges.

• 2+ years of experience of active software development and AI/ML modelling, (for PhD no such restriction).

• Must be comfortable in software development using python.

Must have

• Thorough understanding of mathematical backgrounds of ML/DL algorithms.

• Ability to code machine learning algorithms from scratch.

• Good knowledge of Algorithms and Data Structures. Exceptional Problem Solving ability.

• Knowledge of ML/DL libraries(Scikit-learn, Keras/tensorflow/PyTorch).

• Ability to interpret a ML model.

• Good understanding of model selection/ model evaluation approaches.

• Ability to perform Exploratory Data Analysis and to explain the key outcomes from that analysis.

• Ability/tricks to handle large as well as small data sets.

Good to have

• knowledge of Apache Spark.

• knowledge about software architecture/design is a plus.

• Awareness about the State of the Art techniques in AI research.

Compensation: Commensurate to skills & experience; comparable to the best in the industry.

Our Culture: ixigo is proud to have built an entrepreneurial culture that has become a folk-lore in the startup ecosystem. One in every four ixigems has gone on to build successful startups and companies. Our cultural values of integrity, empathy, ingenuity, awesomeness, and resilience have stood the tests of time and we’ve built a fun, flexible and creative work environment that is driven by people with a high degree of ownership. You will get to work with some of the smartest folks in the Indian startup ecosystem, and solve some of the toughest problems for the next billion users by using bleeding-edge technologies. Oh, and we have an awesome “play” area, great chai/coffee, free lunches (yes, they exist!) and a workspace you will fall in love with.