Job Summary

Senior AI Python Technical Lead. We are looking for an experienced Senior AI Python Technical Lead to lead the design, architecture, and delivery of enterprise-scale AI, Generative AI, and cloud-native solutions. This role requires a robust technical leader with team management experience, capable of driving solution architecture, mentoring engineers, stakeholder engagement, technical governance, and end-to-end delivery of production-grade AI platforms.

Responsibilities

- Lead and mentor AI Engineers, Python Developers, ML Engineers, Data Engineers, MLOps Engineers, Cloud Engineers, and Solution Architects.

- Own technical architecture, technology strategy, engineering standards, and solution delivery.

- Drive AI innovation, PoCs, reusable frameworks, enterprise AI adoption, and platform modernization.

- Engage with business stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing AI solutions.

- Establish engineering best practices across AI, software engineering, DevOps, cloud, and MLOps.

Requirements

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline.

- At least 10 years of hands-on experience in Python software engineering and enterprise application development.

- At least 5 years of experience designing, developing and deploying production-grade AI/ML and Generative AI solutions.

- At least 3 years of experience architecting Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Agentic AI and enterprise AI platforms.

- Proven experience leading technical teams as a Technical Lead, AI Engineering Manager,



Principal Engineer or Solution Architect.

- Experience delivering enterprise AI platforms on AWS or other major cloud providers.

- Strong experience in stakeholder management, engineering governance, solution architecture and large-scale Agile delivery.

Technical Skills

- Python

- SQL

- NoSQL

- FastAPI

- Flask

- Django

- REST APIs

- GraphQL

- Microservices

- Distributed Systems

- PyTorch

- TensorFlow

- Scikit-learn

- Hugging Face Transformers

- LangChain

- LlamaIndex

- DSPy

- LLMs

- RAG

- GraphRAG

- AI Agents

- Multi-Agent Systems

- Prompt Engineering

- Context Engineering

- Embeddings

- Semantic Search

- Hybrid Search

- LangGraph

- CrewAI

- Microsoft AutoGen

- LangChain Agents

- Vector Databases

- Pinecone

- Qdrant

- Weaviate

- ChromaDB

- Milvus

- FAISS

- LangSmith

- Ragas

- DeepEval

- OpenAI Evals

- MLflow

- Model Monitoring

- Prompt Lifecycle Management

- AI Observability

- NeMo Guardrails

- Llama Guard

- Amazon Bedrock Guardrails

- Prompt Injection Protection

- PII Protection

- Responsible AI

- AI Governance

- AWS Bedrock

- SageMaker

- ECS

- EKS

- Lambda

- API Gateway

- EC2

- S3

- DynamoDB

- OpenSearch

- EventBridge

- Step Functions

- CloudWatch

- IAM

- Docker

- Kubernetes

- Terraform

- Jenkins

- GitHub Actions

- ArgoCD

- CI/CD

- GitOps

- Model Deployment

- Infrastructure as Code

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📌 Sr AI & Python Technical Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 Merck
📍 Bengaluru