We are looking for an experienced Head of AI Center of Excellence to drive the enterprise AI strategy and lead the design and delivery of production-grade AI solutions.

The role will focus on building agentic AI systems, accelerating AI experimentation, and delivering pilot-ready PoCs that can be scaled into business solutions.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the AI Center of Excellence and execute the organisation's enterprise AI strategy.
- Design, develop, and deploy agentic AI architectures and LLM-based solutions for enterprise use cases.
- Lead the development, training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment of ML/DL models.
- Drive rapid experimentation and deliver pilot-ready AI PoCs within defined timelines.
- Define and implement MLOps practices covering model deployment, monitoring, governance, and lifecycle management.
- Lead and mentor AI/ML engineering teams across multiple projects, ensuring quality and timely delivery.
- Work with business and technology stakeholders to identify AI opportunities and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
- Evaluate and adopt relevant AI/ML frameworks, orchestration platforms, cloud AI services, and emerging technologies.




- Ensure AI solutions are production-ready, scalable, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise requirements.

Required Candidate Profile

- 6+ years of overall experience in software development and project management, with 5+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML system design and development.
- Bachelor's degree in B.Tech or equivalent.
- Proven experience managing AI/ML engineering teams and multiple projects.
- Strong expertise in :
- Agentic AI architectures, LLM-based systems, and orchestration frameworks
- ML/DL model development, training, fine-tuning, and evaluation
- MLOps, model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management
- Strong proficiency in Python and contemporary AI/ML frameworks such as LangGraph, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Hugging Face.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and their AI/ML services.
- Demonstrated ability to rapidly develop and deliver AI PoCs and production-ready solutions.
- Strong technical leadership, project management, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

(ref:hirist.tech)

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