Summary:
Job Title: Senior Expert (AI-Engineering)
- Location: Hyderabad, India
- #LI-Hybrid
- Relocation Support: Yes

About the Role:
Key Responsibilities
- Design and train advanced machine learning models for drug discovery, including deep learning and graph-based architectures
- Own end-to-end model lifecycle from problem definition to production deployment and continuous improvement
- Conduct rigorous benchmarking, validation, and performance evaluation against scientific and business objectives
- Deploy scalable, reliable model inference services meeting latency, throughput, and cost requirements
- Build automated training, retraining, and monitoring pipelines including model drift detection mechanisms
- Optimize models and pipelines for performance, reliability, and scalability across production environments
- Establish and promote engineering best practices for reproducibility, testing, and deployment standards
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate research innovations into production-ready AI solutions




- Partner with scientific experts to validate models against biological and chemical benchmarks
- Mentor teams and contribute to raising engineering excellence across the AI for Research organization

Essential Requirements
- Minimum four years of experience building, training, and deploying machine learning models with measurable real-world impact
- Deep proficiency in Python and frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX; expertise in model design and optimization
- Proven experience fine-tuning and deploying large pre-trained and foundation models including language and scientific models
- Solid understanding of model evaluation including benchmarking, cross-validation, and performance across data distributions
- Experience with distributed training and large-scale computing environments for high-performance model training
- Hands-on expertise optimizing models and pipelines for latency, throughput, cost, and production performance
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