AI / ML Architect (Hands-On | Individual Contributor)

Experience

8-10 years total experience with 5+ years in AI / ML systems and solid hands-on coding skills.

Role Summary

We are looking for a hands-on AI / ML Architect who will work as an Individual Contributor, designing, building and deploying scalable AI / ML solutions. This role is NOT people-management focused - you will actively write production grade code, build models, architect ML platforms, and collaborate closely with cross functional engineering, product, and domain teams.

What You’ll Do:
We are currently seeking an experienced AI Architect who will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to develop and deploy AI-powered features and tools that optimize employee experiences and drive business outcomes.
- Design and develop AI paved paths for the Alight engineering organization.
- Stay up to date with new tools and technologies and evaluating their potential impact on the business.
- Work with stakeholders to develop and tune algorithms to address business needs.



You should be able to effectively communicate your ideas in non-technical terms to help educate business partners
- Evaluate, fine‑tune, and deploy LLMs and foundation models; implement RAG, guardrails, and prompt engineering best practices (conversant with Github Copilot).
- Conversant with LLM security practices - Secure model deployment, Input validation, Data verification (guardrails) etc.
- Write production quality Python code for:
- Feature Engineering
- Model evaluation
- Interface services (APIs)
- Conversant with Spring AI - building MCPs, tools, pre-plugin and post-plugin etc.
- Build high performant Ingestion pipelines.
- Expertise across cloud (AWS), data engineering, ML/GenAI and data ingestion techniques
- Work with CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions, Gitlab, Jenkins)
- Mentor engineers on ML best practices (without direct people management)
- Collaborate on a high-performing, agile team with a global presence

What You

📌 Ai Ml Architect (Gurugram)
🏢 Alight
📍 Gurugram