Machine Learning Engineer - NLP

Job Description:

We are seeking a versatile and highly skilled Lead AI/ML Engineer with deep expertise in Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs). This role requires a leader who can take full ownership of the

AI lifecycle—from initial architectural design to final production execution. You will lead the development of scalable AI-powered applications, demonstrating exceptional execution skills and the ability to deliver high-performance results under pressure in demanding production environments.

Machine Learning & LLM Capability:

 End-to-End ML Engineering: Build and manage comprehensive ML pipelines, including data ingestion, preprocessing, training, and evaluation using frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Scikit-learn.  Advanced LLM Systems: Design and implement sophisticated LLM-based applications such as autonomous agents, chatbots, and complex automation tools.

 Generative AI Specialization: Architect and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines using vector databases like FAISS, Pinecone, or Weaviate.

 Model Optimization: Fine-tune open-source and proprietary models (e.g., LLaMA, GPT) using advanced techniques like LoRA, QLoRA, or instruction tuning.

 Agentic Frameworks: Develop complex agentic workflows utilizing frameworks such as LangChain or LlamaIndex.

 Prompt Engineering: Implement expert-level prompt engineering, tool/function calling, and structured output generation.

 Project Ownership & Execution

 Full Lifecycle Ownership: Take complete accountability for the full ML and GenAI lifecycle, spanning data processing, model development, monitoring, and optimization.

 Architectural Leadership: Drive strategic architectural decisions for AI platforms, ensuring they are modular, scalable, and maintainable.

 Execution Excellence: Write clean, high-performance Python code following strict OOP principles and manage CI/CD pipelines for seamless project execution.

 Leadership & Mentoring: Act as a key technical leader, managing stakeholders and mentoring team members to ensure all project milestones are met with quality.

 System Integrity: Manage model and prompt versioning, experiment tracking, and comprehensive documentation for all pipelines and workflows.

 Performance Under Pressure

 Production Reliability: Ensure all AI systems maintain extreme scalability and performance under heavy production workloads, including both batch and real-time processing.

 High-Pressure Optimization: Rapidly optimize inference latency and system costs for ML and LLM systems to meet urgent business and technical requirements.

 Proactive Problem Solving: Apply strong analytical thinking to address complex challenges such as system drift, hallucinations, and latency in fast-paced environments.

 Robust Guardrails: Implement and manage strict evaluation frameworks and feedback loops to maintain system quality under stress.

Qualifications:

 Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI, ML, or a related field.

 Proven expertise in Python, system design, and scalable AI/ML architecture.

 Deep knowledge of NLP, Computer Vision, and Deep Learning models.

 Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, MLOps, and major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

[Please refrain from applying if you have over 10 years of experience. This is a hands-on role that requires building from the ground up.]

Location: Bengaluru (In-Office)

Employment Type: Full-Time

About Logikality

Logikality is building an AI-native mortgage intelligence platform for the U.S. mortgage industry. We are reimagining how mortgage operations are executed by combining AI, workflow automation, and domain expertise to solve one of the most document-intensive and decision-heavy industries in the world.

Our platform goes beyond document extraction. We are building AI systems that understand mortgage files, reason across multiple sources of information, identify risks and exceptions, support underwriting and quality control decisions, and continuously improve through expert feedback and rigorous evaluation.

As we expand our AI capabilities, we are looking for a Director, AI Engineering to define and drive the research direction behind our next generation of intelligent systems.

About the Role

This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who enjoys solving difficult AI problems and turning research into production impact.

You will lead the research agenda across large language models, reasoning systems, agentic AI, multimodal learning, and intelligent decision support while working closely with engineering, product, and mortgage domain experts. You will prototype new ideas, validate them through rigorous experimentation, and help productionize solutions that directly improve customer outcomes.

This role is ideal for someone with deep research expertise who enjoys building real-world AI systems rather than research for its own sake.

What You'll Do

• Define and execute the Applied AI research roadmap aligned with company and product goals.
• Design novel approaches for document understanding, reasoning, planning, retrieval, and decision support.
• Build agentic AI systems capable of orchestrating tools, workflows, and domain knowledge to solve complex mortgage use cases.
• Develop multimodal AI models that combine documents, structured data, images, and operational context.
• Lead research on long-context reasoning, knowledge integration, memory, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and workflow automation.
• Design robust evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and automated testing pipelines to measure model quality, reliability, explainability, and business impact.
• Rapidly prototype, experiment, and iterate on new AI techniques, evaluating state-of-the-art research for production adoption.
• Work closely with software engineers to translate research prototypes into scalable, production-ready systems.
• Mentor AI engineers and contribute to building a strong research culture within the organisation.
• Collaborate with mortgage domain experts to deeply understand operational workflows, compliance requirements, and decision-making processes.
• Stay current with advances in AI research and identify opportunities to leverage emerging techniques within our platform.
• Represent Logikality in customer interactions, strategic discussions, industry conferences, and business forums, communicating our AI vision, gathering market insights, and helping shape research priorities through direct engagement with customers and ecosystem partners.

What We're Looking For

• PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related discipline; or an engineering degree in Computer Science or related disciplines from a premier engineering institution (e.g., IITs, IISc, NITs, BITS Pilani, or top-tier global universities).
• 3–8 years of professional experience in Applied AI, Machine Learning, or AI Research, with experience building production-grade AI systems
• Strong expertise in modern AI, including Large Language Models, transformers, agentic AI, reasoning systems, retrieval, multimodal learning, or adjacent areas.
• Strong software engineering skills with Python and modern machine learning frameworks.
• Experience designing and implementing production-grade AI systems that solve complex real-world problems.
• Strong understanding of model evaluation, benchmarking, experimentation, and AI system reliability.
• Experience balancing research innovation with engineering pragmatism and product delivery.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and business teams.

Why Join Logikality?

At Logikality, you'll work on problems that require genuine reasoning, not just text generation. You'll help build AI systems that understand complex documents, synthesise information across workflows, explain decisions, identify exceptions, and improve through continuous learning and expert feedback.

This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research and real-world impact, where your ideas won't remain as papers or prototypes; they'll power intelligent systems used every day by mortgage professionals. We are looking for someone who can connect AI, platform engineering, product thinking and customer outcomes.

For the right person, this could develop into a CTO and co-founder track over the next 6–9 months, based on contribution, technical leadership and mutual fit.

Interested candidates are requested to apply via the Google Form given: https://forms.gle/jFqKzfLhNCcCFU5t9

This will be a full-time in-office role based in Bangalore. Immediate joiners are preferred.

About the Role We are seeking a highly technical, hands-on Senior AI/ML Tech Lead to drive the design, development, and deployment of cutting-edge Generative AI applications. In this dual-impact role, you wi l act as a primary individual contributor architecting core AI engines while simultaneously leading a team of engineers through task alocation, code reviews, and technical mentorship. The ideal candidate bridges the gap between state-of-the-art AI research (LLMs, Agentic frameworks, Advanced RAG, OCR) and production-grade ful-stack engineering (Python, FastAPI, React).

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Team Management (40%)

● Technical Oversight: Lead a team of AI, backend, and ful-stack engineers; alocate tasks, establish sprint priorities, and ensure timely delivery.

● Code Quality & Reviews: Conduct rigorous code reviews to maintain high engineering standards, security, performance, and scalability across AI and fu l-stack codebases.

● Architecture & Governance: Design end-to-end system architectures for AI solutions, ensuring seamless integration between frontend interfaces, backend APIs, and AI models.

● Mentorship: Guide and upskil team members on modern software practices, LLM engineering, and agentic design patterns. Hands-On Engineering & Development (60%)

● Generative AI & Agentic Systems: Architect, build, and optimize LLM-powered applications, multi-agent workflows (e.g., CrewAI, AutoGen, LangGraph), and autonomous AI agents.

● RAG & OCR Pipelines: Design and deploy advanced RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architectures and document processing pipelines utilizing OCR techniques (e.g., LayoutLM, PaddleOCR, Tesseract, Vision LLMs) to extract structured data from unstructured sources.

● Backend Systems: Build robust, asynchronous, high-throughput microservices and RESTful APIs using Python and FastAPI.

● Frontend Integration: Colaborate on or build modern web interfaces using React (e.g., Control Towers, operations dashboards, interactive chat interfaces).

● MLOps & Vector DBs: Oversee model deployment, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, vector database integration (Pinecone, Qdrant, Chroma, PGVector), and cloud infrastructure setup (Azure/AWS).

Required Qualifications & Skills

● Overall Experience: 8 to 10 years of professional software engineering experience.

● AI/ML Domain Experience: 3 to 4+ years of dedicated, hands-on experience building and deploying AI/ML, OCR, and Generative AI solutions in production.

● Core Technical Stack: ○ Generative AI & LLMs: Extensive experience with commercial and open-source LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Llama), Agentic frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI), and LLM evaluation frameworks (LangSmith, TruLens, Ragas). ○ RAG & Unstructured Data: Strong knowledge of hybrid search, re-ranking, chunking strategies, vector databases, and document inte ligence workflows. ○ OCR & Vision Techniques: Hands-on experience with OCR engines (Tesseract, PaddleOCR, Azure Document Inteligence) and Multi-Modal/Vision LLMs for document extraction. ○ Backend: Deep expertise in Python and asynchronous frameworks (FastAPI, AsyncIO). ○ Frontend: Working proficiency in React (TypeScript/JavaScript) for building interactive web UI components. ○ Cloud & DevOps: Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure / AWS), Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.

Preferred / Good-to-Have Skills

● Experience with cloud-native data platforms (e.g., Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, Azure SQL).

● Familiarity with cost optimization and latency reduction techniques for LLM inference (caching, semantic routing, model quantization).

● Prior experience in client-facing technical leadership or agile consulting environments.

What We Offer

● Opportunity to lead and build high-impact, state-of-the-art Generative AI systems.

● Colaborative engineering culture with room for technical ownership and direct business impact.

● Flexible work arrangements and competitive compensation package.

🔹 Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI/ML and Generative AI solutions

• Work on GEO, AEO, and SGE initiatives to improve visibility across AI-driven search platforms

• Optimize content and digital experiences for conversational queries and LLM-based search

• Develop solutions using LLMs, NLP, embeddings, semantic search, RAG, and vector databases

• Analyze search intent, AI-generated responses, citations, retrieval patterns, and content discoverability

• Build frameworks to measure GEO/AEO strategies and AI-search performance

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Content, SEO, Marketing, and Business teams

• Improve solution accuracy, relevance, latency, and user experience

🔹 Mandatory Requirements

✅ 1–4 years of professional experience

✅ Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience in GEO, AEO, or SGE

✅ Experience with prompt engineering, embeddings, vector search, or RAG systems

✅ Understanding of semantic search and entity-based optimization

✅ Exposure to ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or similar LLM platforms

✅ Knowledge of schema, context building, content structuring, and knowledge representation

🎓 Preferred Education

B.Tech, M.Tech, Integrated M.Sc., or MS from a Tier-1 engineering institute such as IIT, NIT, BITS, VIT, DTU, or NSUT.