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Job Title:Lead AI Engineer

Location: Hyderabad

About theRole:

We are seeking an experienced Lead AI Engineerto architect, develop, and scale our enterprise AI infrastructure and contentprocessing pipelines. You will lead the technical design of AI systems,focusing on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks, LLM gateways, andintelligent agentic workflows. As a technical leader, you will ensure our AIdata pipelines are robust, highly structured, and seamlessly integrated intoour AWS cloud ecosystem.

In this role you will...

- AI Architecture & Strategy: Lead the architectural oversight and technical direction for content ingestion and enrichment pipelines, ensuring scalable and productive AI integrations.
- RAG & LLM Integration: Design, deploy, and optimize advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks and centralized LLM gateways.
- Agentic Workflows: Build and orchestrate multi-agent platforms and workflows using modern AI integration frameworks.
- Protocol Implementation: Drive the implementation of Model Context Protocol (MCP) to standardize and streamline interactions between foundation models and enterprise backend systems.
- Data Pipeline Engineering: Architect highly reliable LLM generation pipelines, enforcing strict structured JSON outputs to guarantee schema validation and application parsing stability.
- Technical Leadership & System Design: Mentor engineering teams,



apply best-in-class software design patterns, and guide infrastructure deployment planning across cloud environments.

You'vegot what it takes if you have...

- Experience: 5-8 years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of designing and deploying enterprise-grade systems and AI platforms.
- Programming & Frameworks (Mandatory): Deep, hands-on expertise in Java and the Spring / Spring Boot framework.
- Good working knowledge of Python is also required for AI/ML integrations and scripting.
- Database Expertise (Mandatory): Strong knowledge of both relational databases (RDBMS such as PostgreSQL or MySQL) and NoSQL databases, specifically MongoDB.
- Design Patterns (Mandatory): Extensive knowledge of object-oriented design, architectural design patterns, and enterprise integration patterns for building scalable, decoupled systems.
- Cloud Infrastructure (Mandatory): Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services, including the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications and data pipelines.
- AI/ML Expertise: Practical experience building scalable RAG applications, vector search optimizations, and LLM orchestration layers.
- Data Engineering: Proven ability to build resilient data ingestion workflows with a strong emphasis on JSON-based structured data validation over legacy text formats.

Good to have skills...

- Familiarity with enterprise AI toolkits (such as Google ADK).
- Experience managing regional infrastructure rollouts and navigating model availability constraints across different deployment stages.

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