IBM Watson Assistant Developer

Key Responsibilities:
Ability to design and develop AI conversations with responses coming from outside APIs via cloud function or integration with other systems

Collaborate with user interface designers and backend application integration teams to understand the mechanisms through which the conversational AI solution will be used and what is needed to fulfill intents

Collaborate with teams and other developers to design, develop, test , deploy and maintain a chatbot

Leverage AI, NLP Technologies, and cognitive machine learning to develop chatbot applications

Integrate chatbot solutions with multiple platforms

Troubleshoot bots, debug, and deploy chatbots on various channels (voice/chat)

Enhance user effectiveness of chatbot with the help of advanced technologies

Continuously develop knowledge of emerging technologies and analytics techniques and support the pursuit of business development opportunities

Ability to tune and enhance Speech to Text models

Required Qualifications :

Minimum of 5 years professional development experience

1+ years experience building AI powered chatbots from scratch using AI, ML and NLP technologies

Must have IBM Watson Assistant

Must have experience developing in IBM Watson Assistant not just interacting with it.

Experience developing complex bots

Experience using Watson Assistant with Speech to Text module

Creating conversational AI. Manaing conflicts and No Match results. Capturing complex info. Creating Entities.

This is not a web development role.

Python / Python Scripiting is a huge plus.

In depth knowledge of conversational designs, flow, and automated speech recognition, including SSML tagging for TTS

Knowledge of AI/chatbot development landscape, tools and other frameworks

Clean coding skills and best practices

Experience in CICD, Git, unit-testing and source code management

Knowledge of cloud development and deployment principles

Knowledge of Agile development and DevOps approaches

Understanding of end-to-end software development processes and business requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

Backend (server side) development experience either in Java, node.js

Strong multi-language background and experience working with programming languages such as Python, Java, Javascript/Typescript

Experience with IBM Voice gateway and / or IBM Discovery is a plus