Lead AI Engineer

Job Title: Lead AI Engineer

Job Location: Bengaluru or Hyderabad or Chennai (2 Days Hybrid)

Job Type: Permanent

Day to day, you’ll:

• Design, build and support agentic AI applications that orchestrate workflows, decision making and automation across complex systems
• Act as a technical authority for AI enabled applications, advising teams on architecture, integration and best practice
• Partner with engineers, data scientists, architects and product teams to translate business problems into practical AI solutions
• Ensure AI applications are built with security, resilience, ethics and responsible AI principles at their core
• Support the full application lifecycle, from proof of concept through to production deployment and ongoing optimisation
• Share knowledge and coach others, helping to grow AI capability and confidence across the wider engineering community

What we’re looking for :

Essential skills

• Strong experience designing and supporting complex, production grade applications in modern technology environments
• Software development experience of at least 10 years in python or similar with good exposure to full software delivery lifecycle.
• Hands on experience with AI enabled or intelligent systems, such as agent based workflows, orchestration layers or advanced automation
• Solid understanding of application architecture, integration patterns and APIs
• Experience working with cloud platforms (in particular GCP) and modern engineering practices (CI/CD, observability, reliability)
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non technical audiences
• And any experience of these would be great
• Experience working with large language models (LLMs), AI platforms or orchestration frameworks
• Knowledge of responsible AI, model governance or risk controls
• Background in regulated or large scale enterprise environments
• Experience mentoring or leading others on technical approaches