IBM Off Campus Drive 2026 | Software Developer – Deep Learning & Computer Vision | Lucknow — Apply Now

IBM Off Campus Drive 2026 has a specialist opening in Lucknow. IBM’s Software Lab there wants a Software Developer with a strong deep-learning base to take multimodal AI models from research into production on the IBM watsonx platform. The work covers defect and anomaly detection, image segmentation, visual inspection and document understanding for clients in energy, infrastructure, logistics, banking and the public sector.

IBM Off Campus Drive 2026 – Full Job Details

This IBM Off Campus Drive 2026 position sits in IBM Software, the business that builds watsonx, IBM’s AI and data platform. It is a regular, full-time role at IBM India Private Limited, on a hybrid model with a general day shift and no travel.

What you will do in IBM Off Campus Drive 2026

• Turn state-of-the-art multimodal models into production-grade solutions on IBM watsonx
• Build Python services and data pipelines, and fine-tune foundation models on client data
• Package models as containerised, API-driven services on Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Cloud
• Make models robust and explainable for messy real-world conditions
• Work with pre-sales teams on proofs of concept and present results to clients

Eligibility for IBM Off Campus Drive 2026

• Doctorate listed as required; a Master’s in Computer Science, AI, Robotics or equivalent listed in the skills section
• Strong Python and deep learning with PyTorch or TensorFlow – CNNs, transformers, detection and segmentation
• Hands-on computer vision: anomaly detection, defect detection, segmentation, classification
• Data pipelines for large image datasets, including cleaning, augmentation and annotation
• Model evaluation, statistics and error analysis
• REST or FastAPI services, Docker and GitHub

Preferred skills for IBM Off Campus Drive 2026

IBM would like to see vision-language models such as CLIP and SAM, parameter-efficient fine-tuning (adapters, LoRA), industrial inspection or medical imaging work, explainability methods like Grad-CAM, adversarial robustness, edge deployment with ONNX, TensorRT or OpenVINO, and experience with watsonx, Hugging Face, Kubernetes, OpenShift, any major cloud and Linux.

IBM Off Campus Drive 2026 salary

IBM does not state the pay. Reported entry-level software developer pay at IBM India sits around ₹4–8 LPA, with Payscale showing an early-career average near ₹7.6 LPA. A research-heavy role that asks for a Master’s or PhD may be placed at a higher band, so ask for the full CTC split in writing.

IBM Off Campus Drive 2026 selection process (expected)

IBM has not listed the rounds for IBM Off Campus Drive 2026. For specialist AI roles, expect a resume and publication screen, a technical interview on deep learning and computer vision, a discussion of your research or thesis, a coding or system-design round on serving models, and a final managerial and HR conversation.

How to apply for IBM Off Campus Drive 2026

1. Open the official IBM job page using the Apply button on this post
2. Confirm the Job ID reads 136771 and the location reads Lucknow
3. Sign in or create an IBM careers account
4. Upload a resume that leads with your degree, research, publications and computer-vision projects
5. Add links to your GitHub, papers or demos, then submit

Preparation tips for IBM Off Campus Drive 2026

• Be ready to explain a detection or segmentation model you trained end to end
• Revise transformer and CNN architectures, loss functions and evaluation metrics
• Know how you would serve a model with FastAPI and Docker
• Read about watsonx and Red Hat OpenShift at a high level
• Prepare a short talk on your thesis or best paper

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