Job Description

We are seeking a Principal Consultant AI/ML Lead to head our Generative AI initiatives and serve as the core Subject Matter Expert (SME) for our enterprise service and consulting practice. In this strategic, client-facing role, you will lead the architectural design, advisory, and execution of high-impact AI agent ecosystems for our enterprise clients.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic AI Leadership SME Advisory
- Act as the primary Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Generative AI, LLM reasoning patterns, and autonomous agent frameworks for Qualified services and enterprise clients.
- Translate complex business requirements from client stakeholders into rigorous technical blueprints, leading pre-sales technical discoveries and high-level architectural assessments.
- Establish delivery playbooks and reusable patterns to standardize how our consulting firm deploys agentic workflows across different client industries.

2. Core Agent Reference Architecture Framework Design
- Own the technical vision for the core Go harness pattern,



leveraging the Vertex AI Agent Development Kit (ADK) to build a robust, production-ready framework for agents.

3. Per-Agent Specification Delivery Oversight
- Lead the detailed design specifications for agents, establishing structural tool definitions (Function Calling), systemic prompt engineering, and input-context data models.
- Define clear graduated-autonomy criteria , ensuring a balance between autonomous agent execution and human-in-the-loop (HITL) exception handling.
- Establish robust distributed systems patterns, ensuring strict idempotency strategies and canonical event envelopes across bounded contexts.

4. Evaluation, Safety, Governance
- Design and implement a continuous shadow-mode evaluation harness to validate agent performance against live production data without triggering real-world side effects.
- Set precision/recall thresholds and safety-critical misclassification test suites required for production g

📌 Lead - AI/ML Engineer (Generative AI Agent Systems) (Pune)
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📍 Pune