Role Overview

We are seeking a hands-on Senior AI Solutions Architect / Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) with 8-12 years of experience to design, build, deploy, and scale enterprise AI solutions. The role combines AI engineering, solution architecture, enterprise integration, and direct customer ownership from business discovery and architecture through production deployment and optimization.

Core Responsibilities

AI Architecture & Solution Design
- Design scalable, secure, production-ready AI/ML and Generative AI architectures.
- Architect solutions using LLMs/SLMs, RAG, Agentic AI, AI agents, embeddings, vector databases, and retrieval systems.
- Translate business requirements into technical architectures, technology choices, and implementation roadmaps.
- Balance performance, latency, scalability, security, and cost when selecting models and architectures.

Customer-Facing / FDE Ownership
- Work directly with enterprise customers and senior stakeholders to identify high-value AI opportunities.
- Own delivery from discovery and POC through production deployment, adoption,



and optimization.
- Lead architecture workshops, technical discussions, solution demos, and customer presentations.
- Bridge customer requirements with engineering/product teams and rapidly validate solutions in real-world environments.

Hands-On AI Engineering
- Build production-grade AI applications using Python and up-to-date AI/ML frameworks.
- Develop RAG pipelines covering ingestion, chunking, embeddings, indexing, retrieval, reranking, context management, and evaluation.
- Build and orchestrate AI agents and workflows using LangChain, LangGraph, or equivalent frameworks.
- Work with LLM/SLM APIs, open-source models, fine-tuning, inference optimization, and model evaluation.
- Develop APIs, backend services, and scalable data pipelines for enterprise AI applications.

Enterprise Deployment & Integration
- Integrate AI solutions with ERP, CRM, ITSM/ticketing systems, databases, business appli

📌 FORWARD DEPLOYED AI ENGINEER (Chennai)
🏢 D2R AI Labs
📍 Chennai