Sr. Director – AI & Software Engineering
India |Data, Analytics & AI | Full time| Hands-on technical leadership
Location - Bengaluru/Gurgaon/Noida/Pune/Mumbai/Chennai/Hyderabad

Straive is seeking a hands-on technology leader to serve as the senior technical authority for our AI, analytics, and software engineering solutions.

About the Role:

You will set technical direction, resolve complex engineering challenges, and move solutions from prototype to secure, scalable production. The role combines architecture and execution leadership including a mandate to improve enterprise AI economics through fit-for-purpose frontier, open-source, and smaller models.
This is not a conventional delivery-governance role. You will remain close to the technology, lead critical design and code reviews, mentor teams, and take accountability for high-stakes technical outcomes.

Key Responsibilities
1. Production-Grade Engineering
Own engineering standards across architecture, development, testing, deployment, security, observability, and documentation.




Ensure prototypes have a credible production path; introduce architecture and code reviews, automated testing, quality gates, and release-readiness checks.
Close gaps in scalability, performance, reliability, maintainability, and security from design through deployment.
2. AI Architecture and Economics
Define scalable, reliable, and cost-effective AI/GenAI architectures based on accuracy, cost, latency, privacy, and deployment needs.
Lead selection, evaluation, fine-tuning, optimization, and deployment of frontier, open-source, small, and domain-specific models.
Reduce operating cost through model routing, caching, quantization, batching, retrieval and prompt optimization; design robust RAG and agentic systems with evaluation, guardrails, monitoring, and human oversight.
3. Technical Architecture and Platforms
Serve as the final escalation point for complex architecture, performance, security, and deployment issues.
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📌 Senior Director (Bengaluru)
🏢 Straive
📍 Bengaluru