PRINCIPAL AI ENGINEER

Key Responsibilities:
Own the SMA Research Agenda: Set and drive the research roadmap for company's Specialized Model. Frame the open problems in domain distillation, decide which experiments are worth running, and own the results end to end. Your work should raise the accuracy-per-dollar frontier for the specific enterprise domains our customers care about, not for public benchmarks.
Push Distillation and Model Compression: Design and run the teacher-student distillation programs that turn frontier models into small task-specialized models. Work on the underlying techniques (curriculum design, synthetic data generation, distillation objectives, quantization-aware training, activation compression, sparsity) and prove their value on real production workloads.
Advance RL and Preference Optimization: Design reinforcement learning and preference optimization pipelines (RLHF, RLAIF, DPO and its successors, policy optimization) that let our agents learn from real deployment feedback. Own the reward modeling, the training loops,



and the evaluation methodology that tells us whether a change actually helped.
Own Inference Economics: Drive measurable improvements in cost-per-inference, latency, and throughput for the models we serve. This spans model-side work (distillation, quantization, speculative decoding, KV-cache design) and serving-side work (batching, scheduling, tensor parallelism, hardware selection). Cost-per-inference is a business metric here, not a benchmark.
Bridge Research and Production: Take research that lives in papers, notebooks, or lab code and turn it into something that ships. Partner with the model runtime team on how models get served in production, and with the FDE pods on how models perform in messy customer environments. The bar is not that the paper reproduces. The bar is that the customer’s metric moved.
Set the Technical Bar: You are the technical voice for applied ML . Run the design reviews for major model work, review

📌 Principal AI Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Mijas Consultants Jaipur
📍 Bengaluru