AI Consulting Lead (Principal)

Role: Lead Engineer

Experience: 8+ Years (with strong AI/GenAI expertise)

About the Role

As a Senior / Lead AI Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting, developing, and deploying enterprise-scale AI solutions leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and Agentic AI frameworks. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative AI products while driving best practices in AI engineering, governance, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy enterprise-grade LLM, Generative AI, and Agentic AI solutions.
• Lead the architecture and implementation of multi-agent systems and complex AI workflows.
• Build and optimize RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) architectures for enterprise use cases.
• Fine-tune, optimize, evaluate, and improve AI/GenAI models for performance, accuracy, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Integrate AI solutions with cloud platforms, APIs, enterprise applications, and backend systems.
• Establish and maintain AI engineering best practices including AgentOps, governance, observability, security, and responsible AI principles.
• Implement automated deployment strategies using modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, product teams, and engineering teams to ensure successful project delivery.
• Mentor and guide engineering teams on AI solution architecture and implementation.

Required Experience

• 2+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying LLM, GenAI, or Agentic AI solutions in production environments.
• Strong experience designing and implementing multi-agent frameworks and orchestration systems.
• Experience with AI-assisted software development tools such as:
• GitHub Copilot
• Claude Code
• Codex
• Similar AI SDLC tools
• Strong expertise in RAG architecture design and implementation.
• Experience optimizing AI models, prompts, workflows, and inference pipelines.
• Hands-on experience integrating AI applications with enterprise ecosystems and cloud services.

Technical Skills

Programming & Frameworks

• Python
• LangChain
• LangGraph

Enterprise AI Platforms & Frameworks

• AgentBricks
• AgentCore (AWS)
• Microsoft Foundry
• Gemini Agent Studio
• Snowflake Cortex Agents

Cloud & AI Platforms

• AWS Bedrock
• Databricks Mosaic AI
• Microsoft Foundry
• Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
• Snowflake Cortex

DevOps & Engineering

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD Pipelines
• AI Governance
• MLOps / AgentOps best practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise-scale AI transformation programs.
• Knowledge of Responsible AI, AI governance frameworks, and compliance standards.
• Experience leading technical teams and driving AI solution strategy.
• Exposure to observability, monitoring, evaluation frameworks, and AI platform engineering.

Soft Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration abilities.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver business outcomes.
• Problem-solving mindset with a focus on innovation and continuous improvement.

Why EPAM?

• Work on cutting-edge AI and GenAI initiatives for global enterprises.
• Collaborate with highly skilled architects, engineers, and AI specialists.
• Exposure to large-scale digital transformation and innovation programs.
• Continuous learning opportunities through EPAM's world-class engineering culture.
• Opportunity to shape the future of enterprise AI solutions.

Designation: AI Adoption specialist/AI Consultant

Location: Ahmedabad

Work Timings: Primarily Normal Shift (Flexible to support US clients)

Role Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled and client-centric AI Consultant/AI Adoption Specialist to join our growing team. In this pivotal role, you'll serve as a vital link between our clients' strategic objectives and the transformative power of AI. You'll primarily focus on understanding their needs, scoping opportunities, and architecting actionable AI roadmaps.

Key Responsibilities:

 Collaborate closely with clients to understand their challenges and identify opportunities to apply AI.

 Assess client requirements and prepare solution strategies using AI tools and methodologies.

 Work with internal teams to design, propose, and help execute AI-powered solutions.

 Provide AI-based recommendations that align with the client’s business objectives.

 Communicate technical possibilities in a business-friendly manner to decision-makers.

 Take ownership of the client journey from discovery to implementation and support.

 Stay updated with AI trends, tools, and real-world use cases that can benefit clients.

Required Skills & Qualifications:  Minimum 2+ Years of hands on experience into Custom AI Development.  Minimum 3+ years of experience in roles like Project Manager, Customer Success Manager, or Account Manager, preferably in a service-based company or digital agency.  Strong understanding of AI concepts, trends, and tools (e.g., NLP, ML, Chatbots, Automation, native cloud technologis).  Some hands-on experience in AI projects – either through execution, coordination, or implementation.  Ability to manage multiple client engagements and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.  Strong problem-solving mind set with the ability to translate business needs into AI opportunities.  Flexible to work with international clients, especially in the US time zone as needed.

Job Details

Position Title: AI Evangelist

Role Purpose

We are seeking a highly experienced AI Evangelist & Core AI Engineer who combines deep technical expertise in Artificial Intelligence with the ability to influence, educate, demonstrate, and accelerate AI adoption across the enterprise.

The role requires deep understanding of AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Generative AI, Large Language Models, Agentic AI, AI engineering, and modern software development practices, combined with significant hands-on experience implementing scalable AI applications in complex enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

1. Core AI Engineering & Architecture

• Design, develop, and implement enterprise-grade AI and Generative AI applications.
• Build scalable applications using LLMs, multimodal models, AI agents, RAG, vector databases, knowledge graphs, APIs, and enterprise data platforms.
• Architect AI solutions capable of supporting enterprise-scale workloads with appropriate considerations for:
• Scalability
• Reliability
• Security
• Performance
• Observability
• Cost optimization
• Governance
• Develop and implement advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures including hybrid search, reranking, metadata filtering, semantic retrieval, and knowledge grounding.
• Build multi-agent and agentic AI applications capable of reasoning, tool usage, workflow execution, orchestration, and enterprise system integration.
• Design AI applications integrating structured and unstructured enterprise information.
• Evaluate architecture choices between commercial models, open-source models, small language models, domain-specific models, and hosted AI platforms.
• Implement model routing, prompt orchestration, caching, guardrails, evaluation pipelines, and fallback strategies.
• Work closely with cloud, platform, security, enterprise architecture, DevOps, and application engineering teams.

2. Deep AI / ML / DL Expertise

The candidate should have strong conceptual and practical understanding across the modern AI technology landscape, including:

• Artificial Intelligence /Machine Learning/ Deep Learning/ Neural Networks /LLM/SLM/RAG/Graph RAG / MLOps / LLMOps / GenAIOps

3. Generative AI & LLM Engineering

• Build production-grade applications utilizing leading commercial and open-source LLM ecosystems.
• Design scalable LLM platforms supporting multiple enterprise applications and use cases.
• Develop reusable LLM services, APIs, components, agent frameworks, and reference architectures.

4. AI Agents & Automation

• Design and implement AI agents and agentic workflows that automate complex business and engineering processes.
• Build agents capable of interacting with enterprise applications, APIs, databases, documents, development environments, and workflow platforms.
• Evaluate emerging agent architectures and orchestration frameworks pragmatically.
• Develop reusable patterns for:
• Single-agent systems
• Multi-agent systems
• Human-in-the-loop workflows
• Autonomous workflows
• Tool-calling agents
• Coding agents
• Enterprise knowledge agents
• Establish appropriate controls for AI agent identity, permissions, auditability, security, and human oversight.

5. AI-Enabled Software Engineering

Drive adoption of AI throughout the Software Development Life Cycle.

AI Architect – Enterprise AI & Generative AI ( Remote) - Contractual

Experience: 8+ years

Location: Remote, India

Employment Type: Contractual

Working Hours: 3:00 PM – 12:00 AM IST

Client Engagement: US-based client

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on, client-facing AI Architect to lead the architecture, technical direction, and production implementation of enterprise AI and Generative AI solutions for a US-based client.

You should combine strong software engineering and cloud architecture fundamentals with practical experience building secure, scalable, and reliable AI applications. This role involves end-to-end technical ownership, from solution design and prototyping to production deployment and optimization. It is not a research-only, advisory-only, or prompt-writing position.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end architecture and delivery of AI/ML and Generative AI solutions, from discovery and proof of concept to production rollout.
• Design LLM-powered applications using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), embeddings, vector databases, AI agents, and orchestration frameworks.
• Define data ingestion, chunking, retrieval, grounding, evaluation, and knowledge-refresh strategies.
• Select appropriate AI models and platforms based on quality, latency, cost, security, and operational requirements.
• Design cloud-native architectures, APIs, integrations, identity controls, monitoring, and resilient deployment patterns.
• Create architecture diagrams, technical designs, implementation roadmaps, and technical standards.
• Implement AI quality and safety measures, including hallucination mitigation, guardrails, access controls, and prompt-injection defenses.
• Guide engineering, data, ML, and DevOps teams through implementation, code reviews, troubleshooting, and go-live readiness.
• Lead technical discussions and design reviews with US client stakeholders.
• Establish production monitoring, CI/CD, versioning, incident handling, and performance and cost optimization practices.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in software engineering, AI/ML engineering, data engineering, or technology architecture.
• Proven experience personally architecting and deploying at least one enterprise-grade AI or Generative AI solution into production.
• Strong practical knowledge of LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, orchestration frameworks, and model evaluation.
• Hands-on experience with Python and APIs, including prototyping, code review, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform: Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Understanding of data pipelines, SQL/NoSQL databases, containers, CI/CD, MLOps, and LLMOps.
• Knowledge of enterprise security, privacy, identity and access management, and responsible AI practices.
• Experience independently leading architecture workshops, design reviews, and technical discussions with US clients.
• Excellent written and spoken English, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Availability to work from 3:00 PM to 12:00 AM IST and willingness to accept a contractual engagement.

Preferred Experience

• Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, or Google Vertex AI.
• Azure AI Search or equivalent retrieval tools.
• LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, and agent/tool orchestration.
• Model fine-tuning, predictive ML, document intelligence, multimodal AI, or real-time AI applications.
• Experience in cloud modernization, enterprise integrations, data analytics, or technology consulting.
• Relevant AI/cloud architecture certifications and experience mentoring technical teams.

What Success Looks Like

• Designing secure, scalable, production-ready AI solutions rather than demos or conceptual presentations.
• Making sound technical decisions around feasibility, performance, reliability, cost, and AI risks.
• Taking ownership of architecture decisions and resolving technical blockers with limited supervision.
• Building trust with senior US stakeholders and collaborating effectively with India-based delivery teams.

Contract Details

• Initial engagement: Minimum 3 months, with extension subject to project requirements and performance.
• Working schedule: 3:00 PM – 12:00 AM IST.
• Potential permanent employment: After 18 months, the client may consider direct permanent employment at its sole discretion. Conversion is not guaranteed.

Mandatory Screening Criteria

Candidates should be able to:

• Explain an enterprise AI/GenAI solution they personally architected and deployed, including architecture, scale, evaluation, and business impact.
• Whiteboard an enterprise RAG or agentic solution covering data flow, security, authentication, authorization, monitoring, and cost controls.
• Discuss real-world model-quality issues, hallucinations, privacy risks, incidents, and architectural trade-offs.
• Lead a technical design review with US client stakeholders.
• Confirm acceptance of the working hours and contractual engagement.

Apply only if you have hands-on experience architecting and deploying enterprise AI/GenAI solutions in production.

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Data Scientist – Agentic AI with strong expertise in Python, Machine Learning, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), RAG and Agentic AI.

The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in developing, fine-tuning, evaluating and deploying machine learning and GenAI solutions. The candidate should be comfortable working with open-source LLMs, LangChain/LangGraph, PySpark and AI observability/tracing frameworks.

The role involves building intelligent AI systems that can reason, use tools, retrieve information and execute multi-step tasks using Agentic AI architectures.

Mandatory Technical Skills

1. Data Science & Python

• 5+ years of experience in Data Science / Machine Learning / AI.
• Strong programming experience in Python.
• Strong understanding of data analysis, feature engineering and statistical techniques.
• Experience with Python ML and data science libraries such as:
• NumPy
• Pandas
• Scikit-learn
• Matplotlib / Seaborn
• Good understanding of data preprocessing, exploratory data analysis and experimentation.

2. Machine Learning & Statistics

• Strong understanding of Machine Learning fundamentals.
• Experience with supervised and unsupervised learning techniques.
• Knowledge of:
• Regression
• Classification
• Clustering
• Feature Engineering
• Model Selection
• Hyperparameter Tuning
• Cross-validation
• Strong understanding of Statistics / ML fundamentals.
• Ability to interpret model performance and statistical results.

3. Generative AI / LLM

• Strong hands-on experience with Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Understanding of Transformer architecture and modern LLM-based applications.
• Experience working with commercial or open-source LLMs.
• Strong understanding of:
• Prompt Engineering
• Context Management
• Embeddings
• Tokenization
• LLM inference
• Hallucination mitigation

4. RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation

• Strong hands-on experience developing RAG applications.
• Experience with:
• Document ingestion
• Chunking
• Embeddings
• Vector search
• Semantic search
• Retrieval pipelines
• Context retrieval
• Reranking
• Ability to optimize RAG pipelines for relevance, accuracy and latency.
• Experience integrating LLMs with enterprise knowledge sources.

5. Agentic AI

• Hands-on experience building Agentic AI / AI Agent solutions.
• Understanding of agent architecture and multi-step reasoning workflows.
• Experience with:
• AI Agents
• Multi-Agent systems
• Tool Calling
• Function Calling
• Agent orchestration
• Planning and reasoning workflows
• Memory
• Workflow automation
• Ability to build agents that can interact with tools, APIs, databases and external systems.

6. LangChain / LangGraph

• Strong hands-on experience with LangChain and/or LangGraph.
• Experience building LLM workflows and agent-based applications.
• Understanding of:
• Chains
• Agents
• Tools
• State management
• Graph-based workflows
• Agent orchestration
• Retrieval workflows
• Experience designing scalable Agentic AI workflows.

7. LLM Fine-Tuning

• Hands-on experience with LLM fine-tuning.
• Understanding of techniques such as:
• Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT)
• Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
• LoRA
• QLoRA
• Experience preparing datasets for fine-tuning.
• Ability to evaluate fine-tuned models against baseline models.
• Understanding of model optimization and inference considerations.

8. BERT / LLaMA / Open-Source LLMs

Experience working with one or more open-source / transformer-based models such as:

• BERT
• LLaMA / Llama
• Mistral
• Gemma
• Qwen
• Other open-source LLMs

Candidate should understand model loading, inference, fine-tuning and evaluation.

9. PySpark

• Strong experience with PySpark for large-scale data processing.
• Experience working with large datasets and distributed data processing.
• Knowledge of:
• Data transformations
• Data cleaning
• Aggregations
• Joins
• Spark SQL
• Performance optimization
• Ability to build scalable data processing pipelines.

10. Model Validation & Evaluation

• Experience validating and evaluating ML and GenAI models.
• Understanding of traditional ML evaluation metrics.
• Experience evaluating LLM/RAG applications using relevant quality metrics.
• Ability to compare model performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Experience with:
• Accuracy
• Precision
• Recall
• F1 Score
• ROC-AUC
• Retrieval metrics
• LLM response quality
• Groundedness / relevance
• Experience designing evaluation datasets and test cases is preferred.

11. AI Tracing / Observability

• Experience with AI/LLM tracing and observability.
• Ability to monitor AI applications in production.
• Experience tracking:
• LLM requests/responses
• Latency
• Token usage
• Errors
• Retrieval performance
• Agent/tool execution
• Model performance
• Exposure to tools/frameworks such as LangSmith, OpenTelemetry, Arize Phoenix, MLflow or similar is preferred.

12. Model Deployment

• Experience deploying ML/LLM/GenAI solutions into production.
• Exposure to cloud and/or on-premise model deployment.
• Experience with model serving, APIs and production inference.
• Knowledge of deployment environments such as:
• AWS
• Azure
• GCP
• On-premise infrastructure
• Experience with Docker, APIs and CI/CD is an advantage.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deploy Data Science, Machine Learning and GenAI solutions.
• Build production-ready RAG and Agentic AI applications.
• Develop intelligent agents capable of tool calling, reasoning and multi-step task execution.
• Build LLM-powered applications using LangChain/LangGraph.
• Work with open-source LLMs including BERT, LLaMA and other transformer-based models.
• Fine-tune LLMs for specific business use cases.
• Develop scalable data processing pipelines using PySpark.
• Perform data analysis, feature engineering and statistical modeling.
• Develop and maintain model validation and evaluation frameworks.
• Evaluate ML and LLM models using appropriate performance and quality metrics.
• Implement AI tracing, monitoring and observability for production GenAI systems.
• Deploy models and AI applications in cloud or on-premise environments.
• Optimize model performance, response quality, latency and cost.
• Troubleshoot issues related to model inference, retrieval, agents and LLM workflows.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists, ML Engineers, Software Engineers and business stakeholders.
• Convert business requirements into scalable AI/ML solutions.

Good to Have

• Experience with Vector Databases such as:
• FAISS
• Pinecone
• Weaviate
• Milvus
• Chroma
• Azure AI Search
• Experience with MLflow or similar ML lifecycle tools.
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes.
• Experience with REST APIs / FastAPI.
• Knowledge of cloud AI/ML services.
• Experience with MLOps / LLMOps.
• Experience with multi-agent frameworks other than LangChain/LangGraph.
• Experience working with enterprise GenAI applications.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate should be a Data Scientist / ML Engineer with strong GenAI and Agentic AI experience, rather than a pure Python developer.

A strong candidate would typically have:

Data Science + Python + ML + Statistics + GenAI/LLM + RAG + Agentic AI + LangChain/LangGraph + LLM Fine-Tuning + Open-Source LLMs + PySpark + Model Evaluation + AI Observability + Model Deployment.

Core Mandatory Skills

Data Science, Python, Machine Learning, Statistics/ML Fundamentals, GenAI/LLM, RAG, Agentic AI, LangChain/LangGraph, LLM Fine-Tuning, BERT/LLaMA/Open-Source LLMs, PySpark, Model Validation/Evaluation, AI Tracing/Observability, Cloud/On-Prem Model Deployment.

About LeadSquared

LeadSquared is a leading sales execution and marketing automation platform trusted by 2,000+ businesses globally, including healthcare, education, financial services, and real estate. Headquartered in Bengaluru with offices across the US, UK, UAE, and Southeast Asia, we empower sales teams to close faster, smarter, and at scale.

Our AI team is at the forefront of integrating cutting-edge large language model capabilities into enterprise workflows — building intelligent agents, copilots, and automation systems that redefine how businesses operate.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer with hands-on experience building LLM-powered agents and agentic AI systems. You will design, develop, and deploy autonomous AI pipelines that solve complex, multi-step business problems — from lead qualification and follow-up automation to intelligent CRM workflows and beyond.

This role is ideal for someone who is deeply excited about the frontier of AI, can move fast, and wants their work to directly impact millions of sales professionals worldwide.

Key Responsibilities

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Design and build LLM-powered agentic systems using frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, or CrewAI to automate complex, multi-step workflows.

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Develop and maintain Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, pgvector) for domain-specific knowledge grounding.

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Build and integrate tool-use and function-calling capabilities into AI agents, enabling dynamic interaction with internal APIs, databases, and third-party services.

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Implement prompt engineering strategies including chain-of-thought, few-shot prompting, and structured output parsing to ensure reliable agent behavior.

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Design evaluation frameworks and observability pipelines (LangSmith, Helicone, custom metrics) to monitor agent performance, accuracy, and cost.

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Collaborate with product, sales, and domain teams to translate business requirements into AI-driven solutions and features.

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Optimize LLM inference for latency and cost using techniques like caching, model distillation, quantization, and batching.

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Stay current with the rapidly evolving LLM ecosystem and proactively propose improvements and new approaches.

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Contribute to internal best practices, documentation, and knowledge-sharing across the engineering org.

Required Qualifications

Experience

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2–4 years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 1–2 years focused on LLM/AI systems.

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Proven experience shipping LLM-based products or agentic AI systems into production environments.

Technical Skills

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Strong proficiency in Python and familiarity with async programming patterns for AI pipelines.

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Hands-on experience with LLM APIs: OpenAI (GPT-4o), Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), or open-source models (Llama, Mistral).

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Experience with agentic frameworks: LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar.

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Solid understanding of RAG architectures, embedding models, and semantic search.

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Experience with vector databases and similarity search infrastructure.

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Knowledge of REST APIs, microservices architecture, and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).

Problem-Solving & Mindset

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Strong ability to decompose ambiguous, open-ended problems into structured AI system designs.

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Experience with prompt debugging, LLM evaluation, and iterative refinement workflows.

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Ability to balance research exploration with engineering pragmatism to ship reliable systems.

Preferred Qualifications

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Experience with multi-agent orchestration and agent memory systems (short-term and long-term).

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Familiarity with fine-tuning or RLHF workflows for domain adaptation.

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Background in NLP, information retrieval, or conversational AI.

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Prior experience in B2B SaaS or CRM domain is a plus.

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Contributions to open-source AI/ML projects or published research/blogs.

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Experience with cloud platforms: AWS, GCP, or Azure — particularly AI/ML services

Design and develop Agentic AI systems using LLMs, tools, memory,

workflows, and MCP.

Build production-grade RAG pipelines, including ingestion, chunking,

embeddings, retrieval, reranking, and evaluation.

Implement context engineering strategies for improving LLM accuracy,

relevance, and reliability.

Develop and integrate MCP-based tools and services for AI agents.

Work with LLMs, SLMs, quantized models, and model optimization

techniques for efficient inference.

Develop scalable backend services and APIs for AI applications.

Design databases and data models supporting AI/agentic applications.

Implement AI observability covering latency, token usage, cost, failures,

quality, and agent/tool execution.

Apply AI governance and responsible AI practices, including security,

access control, data privacy, and auditability.

Optimize AI systems for latency, scalability, cost, and reliability.

Collaborate with engineering and product teams to take AI solutions from

POC to production.

Strong hands-on experience with GenAI, LLMs, and Agentic AI.

Experience building RAG applications.

Strong understanding of Context Engineering and prompt/context

optimization.

Role Overview

We are looking for a hands-on AI/ML Engineer to design, develop, and deploy

production-ready GenAI and Agentic AI applications. The role involves building

intelligent agents, RAG pipelines, AI APIs, backend services, and scalable AI

infrastructure with a strong focus on context engineering, observability,

governance, and model optimisation.

Key Responsibilities

Required Skills

Practical experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol).

Experience with frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph,

LlamaIndex, or equivalent.

Knowledge of LLM/SLM deployment and quantization techniques.

Strong Python backend development experience.

Experience developing REST APIs using FastAPI/Flask or equivalent.

Strong understanding of SQL/NoSQL databases and database design.

Experience with vector databases such as Qdrant, Pinecone, Weaviate,

ChromaDB, or FAISS.

Understanding of AI observability, evaluation, monitoring, and

governance.

Experience with cloud platforms and production deployment is preferred.

Strong understanding of software engineering principles, Git, testing, and

CI/CD.

Immediate Joiner - 15 days Notice period

• Primary Skillsets: Python, Generative AI, Agentic AI, LLM, experience with designing and developing production grade AI solutions, AWS/Azure/GCP, LLMOps, Data Engineering (Databricks/Snowflake), Regulated GenAI, Data and Decisions, and Agentic Systems.

• Preferred: Pharma or life sciences experience, especially in regulated (GxP) environments, experience setting up a team or practice from scratch.

Looking for an Architect with strong experience in AI and Data Engineering, preferably with hands-on experience in Generative AI (GenAI). Candidates with experience in any cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP) will be considered, 

Analytics Lead – AI & Decision Intelligence

Technical Leadership | People Management | Client Engagement | AI / Data / ML

About the Role

Our client is an enterprise AI and Decision Intelligence product company building advanced solutions for banking,

financial services and insurance. Its work spans predictive analytics, Machine Learning, Generative AI and Agentic AI,

with a strong focus on production-ready deployment, explainability, governance and measurable business outcomes.

The company is looking for an experienced Analytics Lead – AI & Decision Intelligence to lead a multidisciplinary team

of Data Scientists, ML Engineers, AI Engineers and other technical specialists.

This is a technical leadership, people management and client-facing role. The successful candidate is not expected to

be a hands-on expert in every area of AI, Data Science and Machine Learning. Instead, the ideal person will bring deep

expertise in at least one core AI/Data/ML discipline, together with the technical breadth and managerial capability to

lead specialists across multiple domains.

You will provide direction to technical teams, translate business problems into AI-led solutions, drive successful

delivery, and act as a key interface between highly technical teams and clients. A critical part of the role is the ability to

simplify complex technical concepts and communicate them clearly to senior and non-technical stakeholders.

What You’ll Do

 Lead and manage a multidisciplinary team of Data Scientists, ML Engineers, AI Engineers and Analytics

professionals.

 Provide technical direction across AI, Machine Learning and Data Science initiatives while enabling specialists to

own their areas of expertise.

 Translate business and customer requirements into appropriate analytical and AI solution approaches.

 Own delivery across scope, priorities, timelines, technical quality and business outcomes.

 Review and challenge technical approaches, solution designs and architecture without needing to be the hands-on

specialist in every area.

 Mentor, develop and motivate technical team members and build a strong culture of collaboration and

accountability.

 Establish and reinforce best practices around model development, deployment, governance, monitoring and

continuous improvement.

 Work closely with Product, Engineering, Sales and Customer Success teams on solution development and product

roadmaps.

 Lead client workshops, technical discussions and solution presentations.

 Explain complex AI and analytics concepts in simple, business-friendly language to senior and non-technical

stakeholders.

 Support pre-sales, solutioning and customer-facing technical engagements.

Technical Capabilities

Candidates should have strong exposure to the broader AI and Data Science ecosystem. Relevant capabilities include:

 Machine Learning & Deep Learning

 Statistical Modeling

 Python and SQL

 Data Science frameworks such as Scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, TensorFlow or PyTorch

 Data Engineering concepts and Feature Engineering

 Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics

 Model Explainability

 MLOps, CI/CD, model deployment and monitoring

 Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs)

 Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

 AI Agents and Agentic AI architectures

Analytics Lead – AI & Decision Intelligence | LinkedIn Job Description

 Prompt Engineering

 Responsible AI, model governance and regulatory considerations

 Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud

Important: You do not need to be an expert in all of the above. We are looking for deep expertise in at least one core

area of AI, Data Science, Machine Learning, ML Engineering, Generative AI, MLOps or Data Engineering, combined with

sufficient breadth to effectively lead experts in adjacent areas.

What We’re Looking For

 5–8 years of overall experience in AI, Data Science, Machine Learning, Analytics, Data Engineering or a related

technology discipline.

 Proven experience leading or managing teams of Data Scientists, ML Engineers, AI Engineers or similar technical

professionals.

 Strong people management, mentoring, delegation and team-building capabilities.

 Experience leading complex technical projects involving multiple specialist disciplines.

 Strong client-facing, stakeholder management and project delivery skills.

 Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences.

 Strong presentation skills and confidence engaging senior business stakeholders.

 Ability to balance technical considerations with business priorities and delivery objectives.

 Strong problem-solving, decision-making, organisational and managerial skills.

Preferred Experience

 Experience delivering AI or analytics solutions in Banking, Financial Services or Insurance.

 Exposure to use cases such as credit risk, fraud detection, customer acquisition, marketing analytics, collections,

deposits or pricing analytics.

 Experience working in an AI product, technology consulting or enterprise analytics environment.

 Exposure to Generative AI, LLM and Agentic AI programmes.

 Understanding of Responsible AI, explainability and regulatory considerations.

Education

 Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics or a

related discipline.

 MBA preferred, but not essential.

The Profile We’re Looking For

We are looking for a technical leader who can lead experts — not someone expected to be the expert in everything.

Technical Depth + People Leadership + Client Management + Delivery Ownership

If you have strong expertise in one area of AI/Data/ML, have successfully managed technical teams, and can

confidently engage with both technologists and business leaders, we would like to hear from you.