Principal AI Architect — Generative AI & Enterprise Delivery
India (Hybrid) | Data, Analytics & AI | Full time | Hands-on Architecture & Senior Engineering

About Us

Straive is a global leader in data analytics and AI operationalization, helping enterprises embed advanced AI and data capabilities into core business workflows to deliver measurable business outcomes and ROI. With a workforce of ~20,000 professionals serving 350+ clients across 30+ markets, Straive combines technical scale with deep domain expertise. A key differentiator is its network of over 6,000 subject matter experts who specialize in managing and enriching complex, unstructured data enabling organizations to build AI systems grounded in accuracy, context, and business relevance.
The company continues to earn recognition from leading industry analysts and was recently named a Leader in AIM's 2026 Generative AI and Data Engineering PeMa Quadrants.



Backed by EQT—a purpose-driven global investment organization which was ranked among the world's leading private equity firms by PEI in 2025—Straive is positioned as a high-value alternative to traditional IT services providers, combining domain-led intelligence with AI execution at scale.
About the Role
Straive is seeking a hands-on Principal AI Architect & Senior Developer to serve as the technical authority for our enterprise Generative AI delivery practice. In this role, you will lead the end-to-end architectural design, backend engineering, and production deployment of enterprise Generative AI platforms, multi-agent systems, document intelligence pipelines, and real-time streaming LLM applications.

This is an intensely hands-on role requiring expert backend proficiency in Python and SQL alongside deep expertise in Generative AI architectures. You will move beyond simple API orchestration to fine-tune open-weight models, build custom agentic workflows, engineer advanced multimodal RAG pipelines, write high-concurrency streaming backend microservices

📌 Principal Architect (Bengaluru)
🏢 Straive
📍 Bengaluru