Overview

The AI Engineering Principal is responsible for leading the design, development, deployment, and scaling of enterprise AI and GenAI solutions. This role drives the end-to-end delivery of AI products, agentic applications, intelligent automation capabilities, and analytics solutions that create measurable business value.

The position works closely with business stakeholders, product managers, data scientists, data engineers, and platform teams to transform AI use cases into production-ready solutions. The ideal candidate combines solid software engineering practices with deep expertise in AI/ML, GenAI, cloud platforms, and enterprise architecture.

Responsibilities

AI Solution Delivery
- Lead the design, development, and deployment of AI, ML, and Generative AI solutions.
- Build scalable AI applications, copilots, intelligent assistants, and agent-based systems.
- Translate business use cases into production-ready AI products and services.
- Drive technical decisions across architecture, frameworks, tools, and deployment patterns.

AI Platform & Engineering




- Establish reusable AI engineering frameworks, accelerators, and best practices.
- Drive adoption of AI platforms, LLMs, vector databases, RAG architectures, and agent frameworks.
- Develop robust API, microservices, and integration patterns supporting AI workloads.
- Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and cost optimized.

MLOps / LLMOps
- Define standards for model lifecycle management, monitoring, observability, and governance.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines for AI applications and machine learning models.
- Establish evaluation frameworks for LLM quality, safety, performance, and reliability.
- Drive responsible AI, security, compliance, and risk management practices.

Technical Leadership
- Provide technical direction and mentorship to AI engineers and cross-functional teams.
- Lead architecture reviews and engineering governance discussions.
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and id

📌 Associate Director (Hyderabad)
🏢 PepsiCo
📍 Hyderabad