Data Scientist

Position: Project Manager

Location: Bengaluru, India (Hybrid/Remote flexibility available)

Company: PGAGI Consultancy Pvt. Ltd

About PGAGI

At PGAGI, we are building the future where human and artificial intelligence coexist to solve complex problems, accelerate innovation, and power sustainable growth. We develop and deploy advanced AI solutions across industries, making AI not just a tool but a transformational force for businesses and society.

Position Summary

PGAGI is seeking a dynamic and experienced Project Manager to lead cross-functional engineering teams and drive the successful execution of multiple AI/ML-centric projects. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with a solid background in engineering-led product/project management, especially in AI/ML product lifecycles. This role is crucial to scaling our technical operations, ensuring seamless collaboration, timely delivery, and high-impact results across initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Engineering Teams Across AI/ML Projects: Manage and mentor cross-functional teams of ML engineers, DevOps professionals, and software developers through agile delivery cycles, ensuring timely and high-quality execution of AI-focused initiatives.

• Drive Agile Project Execution: Define project scope, objectives, timelines, and deliverables using Agile/Scrum methodologies. Ensure continuous sprint planning, backlog grooming, and milestone tracking via tools like Jira or GitHub Projects.

• Manage Multiple Concurrent Projects: Oversee the full lifecycle of multiple high-priority projects—ranging from AI model development and infrastructure integration to client delivery and platform enhancements.

• Collaborate with Technical and Business Stakeholders: Act as the bridge between engineering, research, and client-facing teams, translating complex requirements into actionable tasks and product features.

• Maintain Engineering and Infrastructure Quality: Uphold rigorous engineering standards across deployments. Coordinate testing, model performance validation, version control, and CI/CD operations.

• Budget and Resource Allocation: Optimize resource distribution across teams, track project costs, and ensure effective use of cloud infrastructure and personnel to maximize project ROI.

• Risk Management & Mitigation: Identify risks proactively across technical and operational layers. Develop mitigation plans and troubleshoot issues that may impact timelines or performance.

• Monitor KPIs and Delivery Metrics: Establish and monitor performance indicators such as sprint velocity, deployment frequency, incident response times, and customer satisfaction for each release.

• Support Continuous Improvement: Foster a culture of feedback and iteration. Champion retrospectives and process reviews to continually refine development practices and workflows.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Experience: Minimum 5 years of experience as a Project Manager, with at least 2 years managing AI/ML or software engineering teams.

• Tech Expertise: Familiarity with AI/ML lifecycles, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and DevOps pipelines (Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).

• Tools: Strong experience with Jira, Confluence, and project tracking/reporting tools.

• Leadership: Proven success leading high-performing engineering teams in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

• Communication: Excellent written and verbal skills to interface with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Certifications (Preferred): PMP, CSM, or certifications in AI/ML project management or cloud technologies.

Why Join PGAGI?

• Lead cutting-edge AI/ML product teams building scalable, impactful solutions.

• Be part of a fast-growing, innovation-driven startup environment.

• Enjoy a collaborative, intellectually stimulating workplace with growth opportunities.

• Competitive compensation and performance-based rewards.

• Access to learning resources, mentoring, and AI/DevOps communities.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Automation Engineer to architect and implement automated testing frameworks that validate the runtime behavior of code generated by our AI platform. This role is critical in ensuring that our platform's output performs correctly in production environments. You'll work at the intersection of AI and quality assurance, creating innovative testing solutions that can validate AI-generated applications during actual execution.

What Success Looks Like

• You architect and implement automated testing frameworks that validate the runtime behavior and performance of AI-generated applications
• You develop intelligent test suites that can automatically assess application functionality in production environments
• You create testing frameworks that can validate runtime behavior across multiple languages and frameworks
• You establish quality metrics and testing protocols that measure real-world performance of generated applications
• You build systems to automatically detect and flag runtime issues in deployed applications
• You collaborate with our AI team to improve the platform based on runtime performance data
• You implement automated integration and end-to-end testing that ensures generated applications work as intended in production
• You develop metrics and monitoring systems to track runtime performance across different customer deployments

Areas of Ownership 

Our hiring process is designed for you to demonstrate deep expertise in automation testing with a focus on AI-powered systems.

Required Technical Experience:

• 4+ years of experience with Selenium and automated testing frameworks
• Strong expertise in Python (our primary automation language)
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar)
• Proficiency in version control systems (Git)
• Experience testing distributed systems
• Understanding of modern software development practices
• Experience working with cloud platforms (GCP preferred)

Ways to stand out

• Experience with runtime monitoring and testing of distributed systems
• Knowledge of performance testing and APM (Application Performance Monitoring)
• Experience with end-to-end testing of complex applications
• Background in developing testing systems for enterprise-grade applications
• Understanding of distributed tracing and monitoring
• Experience with chaos engineering and resilience testing

• Java/J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, REST, JSON, Micro Services, 12 Factor Apps, Apache.
• Strong understanding of microservice architecture
• Ability to design, develop and implement scalable, elastic microservice based platforms.
• Demonstrated knowledge of OAuth token-based authentication protocol.
• Demonstrated knowledge of PCI and Security Coding Standards.
• Performs hands on coding using Java/J2EE & unit testing.
• Contribute to the Design and develop high quality software for large scale Java/Spring Batch/Micro-service Applications.
• Proficiency in the following general areas: Java (Java 1. 7/Java 1. 8), Spring Framework, Jenkins, Gradle, and GitHub.
• Experience with RESTful services, Rabbit MQ, JSON, Unix Scripting, and Hadoop is a plus.
• Core development experience in large scale enterprise Java applications using Spring Framework.
• Experience in SQL (DB2 & SQL databases)
• Strong knowledge and experience on Nginx as APIM tool Solid experience in coding and creating APIs.
•  Expertise in WSDL, XML, XSLT, JSON, XPATH and Gateway scripts
• Provide front line support for Nginx related problems by being involved in troubleshooting, root cause analysis and appropriate secure integration recommendations.
• Installation of Nginx API Gateway as per need.
• Experience in Containers and Kubernetes.
• Good linux and administration skills
• Experience on API Orchestration/Mediation/Protocol Bindings and transformation knowledge on disparate message structures
• Design, develop and implement API proxies using OpenAPI specification Analysing logs and trace for errors and exceptions Manage and publish content in Developer portal Security implementation using OAUTH, SAML, CORS 
• Must Have Knowledge of API development and its technologies.

Location: Remote Working

** Preference will be given to immediate joinee

Requirement:

• 1 to 2 years’ experience on developing apps or games
• Passionate about games as well as creating digital assets.
• Should be understanding of current mobile platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, and other Adobe Creative Cloud tools etc.
• Should be fast in execution with Adobe Creative Cloud tools.
• Should be understanding of popular mobile, casual, and social games.
• Willing to work in a game product Startup company.

Why Should you Join us ?.

• Lots of learning opportunities- Free Books / Courses.
• Competitive Salary
• Free Medical Insurance for you and your family!
• Lunch on all day you order we pay 60%.
• Unlimited Snacks, Tea & Coffee in the house at all times.
• Work with a super-talented team of engineers and designers.
• Casual Dress Code- Slippers, shorts, all is good!

BlackLight Games: 

At BlackLight and we bring classic game experience to mobile. Our games have been rocking the Play Store since launch.

Our real time multiplayer games are a piece of cutting-edge technology, we take pride that they are played by more than 2 million players daily. 

Our flagship game, Ludo SuperStar has been downloaded more than 50 million times. Other titles include - CallBreak, Carrom, Solitaire, Spider Solitaire and Word games.