Description
Ciklum is looking for a Gen AI Principal Lead to join our team full-time in India.
We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.
About the role:
As a POSITION_NAME, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. Lead the transformation of software development lifecycle into an AI-agentic model — where autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents handle defined portions of requirements analysis, coding, testing, code review, and deployment, under a governed human-oversight framework. Own both the technical architecture and the organizational rollout.
Responsibilities:
- Assess the current SDLC end-to-end and identify which stages are suitable for agent autonomy, agent-assist, or remain human-owned (a maturity/readiness map,
not a blanket "automate everything")
- Design and stand up the agentic architecture: agent orchestration layer, tool/permission scoping, approval and escalation gates, integration with existing CI/CD and code review systems
- Define and implement guardrails: security review for agent-generated code, cost/usage controls, rollback and audit mechanisms, human sign-off checkpoints for high-risk changes
- Select and integrate the agent tooling stack (build vs. buy decisions across orchestration frameworks, coding agents, testing agents, deployment agents)
- Run a phased rollout (pilot team → expanded pilot → org-wide) with clear success metrics at each stage — cycle time, defect rate, agent-error rate, developer trust/adoption
- Own change management: training engineering teams on recent workflows, redefining code-review and QA roles, working with security/compliance on new risk surfaces
- Report to engineering l
📌 Gen AI Principal Lead (India)
🏢 Ciklum
📍 India