Senior MLOps Technical Lead

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Job Summary

The team is seeking an AI/ML Engineer to build and operationalize AI solutions across RAG, agentic workflows, knowledge graphs, and machine learning. The role is hands-on and spans experimentation, backend development, deployment, evaluation, and production support.

Key Responsibilities
Design and build RAG and agentic AI solutions from prototype through production
Develop AI workflows using Python, LangGraph, LangChain, or comparable frameworks
Build backend services and APIs using FastAPI, REST APIs, and containerized deployment patterns
Develop retrieval pipelines covering ingestion, embeddings, indexing, retrieval, reranking, grounding, and citations
Support GraphRAG and knowledge graph use cases that combine structured and unstructured information
Build and maintain data and AI pipelines using Databricks
Integrate AI applications with Azure and enterprise services, including identity, security, logging, and monitoring
Evaluate solution quality using retrieval metrics, RAG evaluations, LLM-based evaluation, and human review
Collaborate with engineers, architects, product teams, and domain specialists to move use cases into production
Support technical documentation, troubleshooting,



optimization, and post-production improvements

Skill Requirements

3+ years of relevant software, data, machine learning, or AI engineering experience
Solid programming capability in Python and experience building production APIs or backend services
Hands-on experience with RAG, LLM applications, or agentic AI workflows
Experience with FastAPI, REST APIs, Docker, Azure DevOps Git, and CI/CD
Experience with Microsoft Azure and cloud-based application deployment
Familiarity with Databricks, data pipelines, SQL, and common Python data/ML libraries
Understanding of authentication, authorization, RBAC, secrets management, logging, and monitoring
Experience evaluating AI systems through retrieval metrics, RAGAS or similar frameworks, or task-specific benchmarks
Solid communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams
Ability to take ownership and work iteratively from experimentation to secure, maintainable production solutions

Other Requirements

Experience with GraphRAG, knowledge graphs, ontologies, graph databases, Azure AI services, MCP, or enterprise technology settings.

📌 Senior Mlops Technical Lead Chennai
🏢 HCLTech
📍 Chennai