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.

📌 Senior Director (Bengaluru)
🏢 Straive
📍 Bengaluru