The role
We need senior hands now. The AI practice runs several concurrent client platforms in regulated industries, and the engineering team supporting them is early-career. The Technical Lead becomes the day-to-day technical owner of that team: the person who turns architecture decisions into implementable designs, runs the design gate, reviews the code, unblocks the hard problems personally, and tells the Chief Architect and delivery leadership the truth about risk.
Expect the split to be roughly half hands-on engineering and half oversight. The hands-on half is the difficult half: retrieval architecture, agent orchestration, extraction accuracy, performance and cost. The oversight half is where you multiply — three to five engineers with one to two years of experience become independent owners of their workstreams within six months because of how you review, mentor and set standards.
What will you do
Own technical delivery of AI workstreams across concurrent client engagements: scope, design, sequencing, quality and honest estimates.
Run the pre-implementation design gate:



review engineers' design notes, apply the tiered checklist, maintain the decisions register, and approve or send back before code is written.
Set and enforce engineering standards for LLM systems — evaluation suites as release gates, prompt and model versioning, cost and latency budgets, guardrails and injection defenses, human approval gates, evidence and audit trails.
Personally build the hardest components: retrieval and re-ranking architecture, tool-calling and agent orchestration on Temporal, document extraction pipelines, on-premises and offline deployments.
Review code at scale, including code produced with AI coding tools; catch invalidated model output, leaked secrets, missing tests and silent behavioral change before they merge.
Mentor early-career engineers with a deliberate plan: pair on design, grade their design notes, expand their ownership as they earn it.
Represent engineering

📌 AI Technical Lead (India)
🏢 Benchmark IT Solutions India
📍 India