Company Name: People ImpactSeniority level: Mid-Senior level
Experience: 8+ yrsLocation: Bengaluru (Hybrid)Job Type: full-time
About the Company
We are a leading global technology and consulting organization delivering innovative digital transformation, cloud, data, and AI solutions to enterprises worldwide. With a strong presence across multiple geographies, we help organizations leverage cutting-edge technologies to solve complex business challenges, accelerate growth, and drive operational excellence. Our teams work on large-scale, enterprise-grade technology initiatives that create measurable business impact.
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Lead AI/ML Engineer to lead the design, development, deployment, and optimization of scalable Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning solutions. This role requires a strong blend of hands-on technical expertise, solution architecture, and leadership capabilities to drive AI initiatives from concept to production.
The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in machine learning, MLOps, cloud-native AI platforms, and modern AI technologies including Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust, scalable, and business-driven AI solutions while mentoring engineers and establishing best practices across the AI ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end development lifecycle of AI and Machine Learning solutions, from problem definition to deployment and monitoring.
- Design, build, and deploy predictive models, recommendation engines, forecasting solutions, anomaly detection systems, classification models, and optimization algorithms.
- Translate business requirements into scalable AI and ML architectures and implementation roadmaps.
- Develop reusable frameworks and pipelines for data processing, feature engineering, model training, validation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
- Build production-grade AI solutions that are scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable.
- Collaborate with Data Engineers, Software Engineers, Product Managers, and business stakeholders to integrate AI capabilities into enterprise applications.
- Implement MLOps best practices including experiment tracking, model versioning, CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, monitoring, drift detection, and retraining strategies.
- Drive AI governance, model explainability, responsible AI practices, testing standards, and documentation.
- Mentor AI/ML Engineers and Data Scientists while establishing development standards and reusable accelerators.
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and recommend innovative solutions to enhance business outcomes.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, or Advanced Analytics.
- Strong expertise in supervised and unsupervised learning, feature engineering, model evaluation, optimization, and performance tuning.
- Advanced proficiency in Python and AI/ML libraries such as Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, TensorFlow, PyTorch, XGBoost, and LightGBM.
- Experience building and deploying end-to-end ML pipelines in production environments.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-based AI platforms and MLOps tools.
- Strong understanding of APIs, SQL, data pipelines, feature stores, model registries, and monitoring frameworks.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong knowledge of model governance, explainability, bias detection, drift monitoring, and AI quality standards.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading enterprise-scale AI and ML transformation initiatives.
- Expertise in Forecasting, Recommender Systems, NLP, Computer Vision, Optimization, or Anomaly Detection solutions.
- Strong experience with Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI, Embeddings, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and AI-powered applications.
- Familiarity with Azure OpenAI, AI Studio, Vector Databases, AI Search platforms, and Responsible AI frameworks.
- Experience with distributed training, large-scale data processing, and enterprise AI platforms.
- Ability to influence AI strategy, architecture decisions, and technology roadmaps while remaining hands-on.
Must-Have Skills
- AI/ML Engineering
- Python
- Machine Learning
- MLOps
- Model Deployment & Monitoring
- Data Science
- Cloud AI Platforms
Good-to-Have Skills
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Generative AI
- RAG Architectures
- NLP
- Azure AI Services
- Kubernetes & Docker
- Distributed Machine Learning
Why Join Us?
- Work on cutting-edge AI and Machine Learning initiatives with global impact.
- Lead enterprise-scale AI transformation programs.
- Collaborate with highly skilled engineering, data, and product teams.
- Opportunity to shape AI strategy, architecture, and innovation across the organization.
- Accelerated career growth in a technology-driven and innovation-focused environment.