About the Role
The Innovation Lab applies and adapts AI to accelerate work across eGov’s spectrum of products and platform — DIGIT and the products built on it, including DIGIT HCM (Health Campaign Management). The Lab runs a continuous pipeline of experiments, taking validated problems through bounded prototypes to capabilities that eGov’s product teams can adopt. It applies foundation models and modern GenAI techniques to govtech problems; it does not build models from scratch, though it may tune or train lightly for specific use cases. The Lab’s output is handover-ready — evidence-backed, transferable capabilities, not systems the Lab runs itself.
The AI Tech Lead is eGov’s in-house technical owner for the Lab, and the single internal point of technical accountability. This is a hands-on role: the candidate is expected to build and prototype directly, and equally to direct, review and validate the work of external partners. The Tech Lead must be robust enough as an engineer to accept nothing they cannot themselves evaluate. Alongside the technical work,



the role carries a significant communication mandate — articulating the Lab’s work across functions, to leadership, and in external and public forums.

Key Responsibilities
• Hands-on AI-native engineering: Build and prototype directly. Decide and implement the applied-AI approach per experiment — foundation-model selection, RAG, prompting and agentic patterns, adaptation and light tuning — and turn approved briefs into scoped, testable prototypes within agreed scope, sprint allocation and cost guardrails.
• Partner governance and technical validation: Own the technical scope, acceptance criteria and quality gates for partner-delivered work. Review, test and sign off architecture and code against agreed standards. Accept nothing without documentation, tests and reproducibility; prevent black-box delivery.
• Communication, articulation and representation: Explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical and seni

📌 AI Tech Lead — Innovation Lab (Bengaluru)
🏢 eGov Foundation
📍 Bengaluru