PRINCIPLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Technical Ownership of Core Platform Subsystems
- Own the design and implementation of major subsystems of the enterprise AI/ML platform including the centralized inferencing stack, model registry, feature store integrations, and MLOps tooling.
- Drive technical decisions for platform components, evaluating build vs. buy vs. open-source trade-offs with a long-term enterprise lens.
- Ensure platform components meet strict reliability, performance, security, and cost targets.

2. MLOps & Model Lifecycle Engineering
- Lead the engineering of enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines for ML, covering training, evaluation, deployment, canary rollouts, and automated rollback.
- Design and implement comprehensive model observability: performance monitoring, data drift detection, bias tracking, and alerting.
- Own the tooling for model versioning, lineage, and governance compliance across the enterprise.

3. Platform Architecture & Engineering Standards




- Translate the Principal Architect's architectural blueprints into detailed technical designs and engineering specifications.
- Define and enforce engineering standards, coding patterns, and API contracts for all platform components.
- Conduct design and code reviews across the team, raising the overall quality bar.

4. Performance, Scalability & Cost Engineering
- Lead performance engineering for the inferencing stack: profiling, bottleneck identification, latency optimization, and throughput scaling.
- Architect for cost efficiency in compute-intensive AI/ML workloads, including GPU/TPU utilization strategies.
- Design for scale: thousands of concurrent inference requests, hundreds of models, petabyte-scale data volumes.

5. Reusability, Inner-Sourcing & Developer Experience
- Own the shared AI/ML services and libraries strategy, ensuring platform APIs are intuitive and well documented for product teams.
- Drive inner-sourcing initiatives so AI/ML assets are discoverable, reusable, and governed acro

📌 Principal Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Rakuten Symphony
📍 Bengaluru