About this Senior/ Lead AI Engineer role at Weekday AI
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Experience: 5+ yrs
Location: Bengaluru
Job Type: Full-time
We are looking for an experiencedย Senior AI/ML Engineer โ Generative AIย to lead the design, development, and deployment of enterprise-scale AI solutions. The role focuses heavily onย Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), multimodal AI, agentic AI, RAG, and production machine learning systems.
The ideal candidate will combine strong hands-on engineering expertise with the ability to define AI/ML roadmaps, solve complex technical problems, and guide engineering teams. You will work closely with Business, Product, Engineering, Data Science, and MLOps teams to transform business challenges into scalable, secure, and production-ready AI solutions.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with Business, Product, Engineering, Data Science, and MLOps teams to design and deliver enterprise-scale AI solutions.
- Define and drive theย AI/ML roadmapย for key business and technology problem areas.
- Lead the design, prototyping, development, and production deployment ofย Generative AI and LLM-based applications.
- Work with models such asย GPT, Claude, LLaMA, Mistral, and other foundation and multimodal models.
- Build scalableย Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)ย pipelines, embedding workflows, and retrieval architectures.
- Design and implement integrations with vector databases such asย FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, and Milvus.
- Develop and optimise data pipelines supporting AI/ML applications and model workflows.
- Fine-tune models using approaches such asย LoRA and PEFTย and establish robust evaluation methodologies.
- Build AI orchestration and agentic workflows using frameworks such asย LangChain and LlamaIndex.
- Optimise AI systems forย latency, throughput, cost, scalability, accuracy, and reliability.
- Monitor model performance, drift, bias, and production behaviour and implement appropriate corrective measures.
- Design scalable ML deployment pipelines using cloud-native and containerised environments.
- Apply appropriateย CI/CD, MLOps, observability, governance, and model lifecycle managementย practices.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate AI capabilities into production applications and platforms.
- Lead technical debugging, root-cause analysis, performance optimisation, and production issue resolution.
- Establish best practices for experimentation, evaluation, documentation, security, and production readiness.
- Mentor and guide engineers while contributing to technical standards and AI/ML engineering practices.
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and identify opportunities for their practical application.
What Makes You a Great Fit
- 5+ years of experienceย in AI/ML engineering, with strong hands-on experience deliveringย Generative AI solutions into production.
- Strong programming expertise inย Python, with working knowledge of SQL and, where applicable, R.
- Strong experience withย NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, and other data science libraries.
- Hands-on expertise with deep learning frameworks such asย PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, MXNet, or Caffe.
- Strong understanding ofย NLP, LLMs, multimodal AI, and modern Generative AI architectures.
- Experience withย Hugging Face, Transformers, SpaCy, NLTK, Gensim, or Spark NLP.
- Proven experience building, integrating, evaluating, and fine-tuningย LLMs.
- Strong knowledge ofย LangChain, LlamaIndex, RAG architectures, embeddings, and vector retrieval.
- Hands-on experience withย Pinecone, FAISS, Weaviate, Milvus, or similar vector databases.
- Strong understanding of classical machine learning techniques, including regression, SVM, decision trees, random forests, and clustering.
- Experience with cloud ML platforms such asย AWS SageMaker, Google Vertex AI, or Azure Machine Learning.
- Hands-on experience withย Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native deployment environments.
- Strong knowledge of ML CI/CD, model observability, and governance tools such asย MLflow, Weights & Biases, and LangSmith.
- Strong understanding of model evaluation, monitoring, scalability, security, cost optimisation, and production reliability.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to tackle complex AI/ML challenges.
- Strong technical leadership, communication, stakeholder-management, and mentoring abilities.
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD inย Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related disciplinefrom a recognised institution is preferred.