: Gen AI Lead

Role: Gen AI Lead

Experience: 8+ Years overall, with solid hands-on experience in Generative AI

Location:

Work Mode: WFH

Employment Type: Full-Time

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Gen AI Lead with strong hands-on expertise in designing, developing, deploying, and managing Generative AI solutions in production environments , particularly on Microsoft Azure . The ideal candidate should have experience taking Gen AI/LLM solutions from POC to enterprise-scale production, with strong knowledge of Azure AI services, LLMs, RAG, AI agents, and MLOps/LLMOps.

Key Responsibilities

· Lead the design, development, deployment, and productionization of Generative AI solutions.

· Architect and implement LLM-based applications, RAG pipelines, AI agents, and conversational AI solutions .

· Deploy and operationalize Gen AI applications on Microsoft Azure .

· Work with Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Search, Azure AI Foundry, Azure Machine Learning , and other relevant Azure services.

· Take Gen AI solutions from POC → pilot → production , ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and performance.

· Develop production-grade solutions using Python and relevant Gen AI/ML frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, etc.

· Design and optimize RAG architectures , including document ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector databases, retrieval, reranking, and evaluation.

· Work with multiple LLMs and embedding models and evaluate them based on performance, cost, latency, and business requirements.

· Implement LLMOps/MLOps practices , including CI/CD, model evaluation, monitoring, logging, versioning, and governance.

· Ensure enterprise-grade security, data privacy, access control, responsible AI, and compliance for Gen AI applications.

· Lead technical discussions with stakeholders and mentor Gen AI/ML engineers.

· Troubleshoot production issues and continuously optimize model performance, latency, scalability, and cost.

Mandatory Skills





· Strong hands-on Generative AI / LLM experience.

· Proven production deployment experience of Gen AI solutions .

· Strong experience deploying Gen AI applications on Microsoft Azure .

· Experience with Azure OpenAI / Azure AI services .

· Strong knowledge of RAG, embeddings, vector databases, prompt engineering, and LLM evaluation .

· Experience with AI Agents / Agentic AI is highly preferred.

· Strong programming experience in Python .

· Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex or similar frameworks.

· Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, REST APIs and microservices .

· Understanding of Azure DevOps, CI/CD, MLOps/LLMOps and production monitoring.

· Experience building scalable and secure enterprise AI architectures.

Good to Have

· Experience with Azure AI Foundry .

· Experience with Azure AI Search / vector search .

· Experience with OpenAI, Llama, Mistral, Gemini, Claude or other LLMs.

· Experience with fine-tuning, LoRA/PEFT or model customization .

· Knowledge of Gen AI observability and evaluation frameworks .

· Experience handling enterprise-scale Gen AI implementations.

· Strong architecture and technical leadership skills.

Key Requirement

Candidates must have actual production experience in Generative AI and hands-on experience deploying Gen AI/LLM solutions to Azure. Candidates with only POC/research or experimentation experience will not be preferred.

For Naukri Search, keep it focused.

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"Generative AI" OR GenAI AND Azure AND "Azure OpenAI" AND LLM AND RAG AND Python AND Production AND Deployment

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GenAI AND Azure AND "Azure OpenAI" AND LLM AND RAG AND Python AND Architecture AND Production

If the pool is too small

GenAI AND Azure AND LLM AND RAG AND Python AND Deployment

Must-have filters:

· Experience: 8–15 years

· Keywords: GenAI, Azure, Azure OpenAI, LLM, RAG, Production, Deployment

· Prioritize profiles mentioning production implementation / production deployment , not candidates whose entire GenAI experience consists of a weekend chatbot and optimism.

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