About the Team:
The AI Solutions Org is a current, high-velocity engineering unit at Flipkart with a singular mission: to accelerate AI adoption across the entire company. Will operate as a "SWAT team" for AI - building end-to-end solutions for business functions that lack engineering bandwidth, while also partnering with the core Data Science team to optimize and scale state-of-the-art models (FK LLMs, Open Source, Commercial).
About the role:
A Senior Staff AI Engineer operates at a different scope from Staff. The problems you own are not well-defi ned — they are multi-disciplinary charters where DS, Engg, and Product have competing definitions of success, and where the goal itself changes as you learn. Your job is not to execute a plan; it is to defi ne what the right plan is, hold the technical direction through iteration, and coordinate across functions without deferring to any single team's framing. You set the technical direction for initiatives, not just systems. You make the call when DS says one thing,
Engg says another, and Product wants to ship in four weeks. You design the evaluation framework that the entire org uses. You decide which techniques are worth the team's time to investigate. You are the person other senior engineers come to when the problem is hard enough that the usual playbooks don't apply.
The bar for Senior Staff is not 'does excellent technical work.' It is: does this person change the technical trajectory of a team or initiative, and do they make the organisation smarter about AI by being in it?
What you will do:-
● Own ambiguous, cross-functional AI charters — where the goal itself must be negotiated across DS, Engg, and Product, and where the definition of 'done' evolves across iterations.
● Set the technical direction for multi-team initiatives. Make architectural decisions that other teams build on. Hold that direction under pressure from shifting requirements, competing