Director of Engineering

Experience: 3+ years of experience in designing and developing AI solutions.

Qualification: Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field (e.g., Mathematics, Engineering)

Location: Should be based out of Surat or ready to relocate to Surat

Position Overview 

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior AI/ML Developer to lead the development and integration of advanced AI solutions within our product ecosystem. This role involves close collaboration with cross-functional teams including product managers, data scientists, and engineers to build AI models that solve real-world integration challenges. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in machine learning, deep learning, and software development, along with hands-on experience deploying AI models in production environments.

What You’ll Be Doing

ü Collaborating with product managers, engineers and data scientists to align AI solutions with product functionalities.

ü Designing and developing AI models for challenges like document data extraction, data transformation, pattern recognition and data mapping

ü Applying machine learning algorithms and deep learning architectures and transformer models to build scalable AI models.

ü Working with data engineers to prepare, clean, and transform data for AI applications.

ü Training, evaluating, optimizing and fine-tuning AI models to ensure high performance and accuracy.

ü Monitoring deployed AI functionalities, troubleshooting issues, and driving continuous improvement.

ü Research and build innovative solutions to relevant AI problems, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), semantic search, knowledge representation, tool usage, fine-tuning, and reasoning in LLMs.

ü Keeping abreast of the latest AI research, trends, and innovations relevant to integration technologies.

What You Bring to the Table

ü Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Data Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field.

ü 3+ years of experience in designing and implementing AI/ML solutions.

ü Demonstrated ability to integrate AI models into production software.

ü Excellent analytical thinking, communication, and problem-solving abilities.

ü Ability to work autonomously as well as in a collaborative team setup.

Skills Required

ü Dataset Development: Strong track record of building datasets for training and/or evaluating machine learning models. 

ü LLM and NLP Experience: Hands-o

ü n experience working with LLMs, RAG architecture, Natural Language Processing (NLP), or applying Machine Learning to solve real-world problems.

ü Experience with LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, FAISS) is highly desirable.

ü Test Harness Automation for LLM Agents

ü Familiarity with agent frameworks (e.g., Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, Lang Chain, etc.).

ü Proficiency in Python and libraries like Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, etc. containerization (Docker), and API frameworks (Flask, Fast API).

ü Integration Knowledge: API development, data transformation, system integration

ü Soft Skills: Communication, teamwork, adaptability, critical thinking

We are looking for A highly skilled Full Stack .NET Developer with strong hands-on experience in C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Web API, and Microservices Architecture. Proficient in developing scalable and high-performing applications using SQL Server, NoSQL databases, and Entity Framework (v6+). Recognized for excellent troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional and international teams, including US counterparts.

Summary about us & the role:
Thrive is a restaurant-first direct ordering platform. Our product touches the lives of restaurant owners, management, kitchen + operations staff and also end consumers.

This role offers an exciting chance for you to build a consumer + merchant experience. And there's a lot of scope to grow and learn at the same time.

Direct ordering is a blue-ocean and we're looking out for innovative designers looking to create brand new experiences contrary to what you see already with food delivery apps.

Role:

• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience
• Should possess strong knowledge of visual design principals along with proficiency with illustrations and icon design
• Proficiency with design tools such as Adobe creative suite, Sketch, Figma and prototyping tools
• Shape the user experience of wireframes by adding or enhancing visual elements considering the principals of aesthetic design.
• Focus on the aesthetics of a product and its related materials by strategically implementing iconography, typography, space, layouts, colour, Illustrations, and in dashboard training gifs/ videos.
• Maintain a design style guide and ensure every feature shipping out into production is compliant with it.
• Work closely with frontend engineers to provide design deliverables such as icons, fonts or any other styling element.
• Work closely with product marketing team on the feature announcement plans, come up with the creative and get them implemented.

Good to have

• Ability to multitask and coordinate between teams.
• Strong attention to detail and strong time management.

• Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus.

***Brownie points

• Prior experience with SaaS tools & dashboards
• Prior startup experience

Required Skills:

• .NET Core 
• C#
• Web API
• Aware of Microservice concepts
• MongoDB 
• Excellent communication
  
  

Docker, Kubernetes, and Linux knowledge is desirable. Having worked in a product development environment is desirable. Having worked in the finance and banking domain is desirable.

Job description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design and build advanced applications for the IOS platform
• Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications.
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design & deploy.
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
• Unit-test code for robustness.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Maintain code integrity and organization.

Desired Candidate Profile

• 2+ Years should be required in iOS development.
• Should be well aware about iPhone/iPad application development
• Should be well versed with Core data concepts
• Should be well versed with Swift-UI
• Should be well versed with Network load optimisations & other core networking concepts
• Must be very good with designing pixel perfect UI
• Good to have Core Audio, Graphics & video frameworks.
• Good knowledge of app deployment process & good to have knowledge on build automation.
• Should have decent communication skills to be able to interact with Clients.

We are looking for someone with 6+ years of relevant experience working on problems in NLP or Computer Vision with a Master's degree (PhD preferred).