PositionAssociate Director, Embedded AI EngineeringTeamEmbedded AI Engineering; a senior seat, not the discipline leaderLevel and gradeL6 Associate Director on the Embedded AI Engineering bandPosition typeFull timeLocationRemote, with regular time at client sites in India. Overlap with Indian business hours required.Reports toChief Executive OfficerTravel25 to 30 percent, mostly to client sites in India

About Us

APLYD helps governments, multilateral institutions, development finance institutions and foundations use AI in public systems. Most public-sector AI stops at the pilot. Our work is getting it into everyday service delivery and keeping it running once we leave.

Athena Infonomics has done this work for years. In 2026 we set it up as its own company. We cover strategy and readiness, field data and last-mile reach, design and build, evaluation and audit, and scale and production.

440+ engagements

240+ global clients
85+ specialists
7 countries
5 continents

The Role

You are the senior engineer on APLYD’s AI work. You work closely with a client institution’s data,



systems and people, and you build and deliver what the institution needs. You bring the machine learning capability the rest of the firm does not have, and you work alongside the Senior Manager, Data & Measurement, who measures what you deliver. Embedded describes the way of working, close to the institution and its decisions; it does not require sitting in the institution’s office or country.

This is a hands-on role. You write code every week, and you continue to do so as the team grows.

Core Job Responsibilities

Work closely with the institution. You spend real time in the departments we serve, with the people who will use what you build and the people who will run it after we leave. Much of what makes public-sector AI fail is only visible in the office: undocumented workarounds, fields that are always left blank, approvals nobody mentions until you need them.
Build and deliver end-to-end mac

📌 Associate Director, Embedded AI Engineering (India)
🏢 Athena Infonomics
📍 India