Lead AI Software Engineer

Fulcrum Digital — AI Engineering

Grade: 3A

Department: AI Engineering

Experience Required: 5–8 years

Location: Pune, India

Employment Type: Full-Time

As a Lead AI Software Engineer, you'll provide technical leadership for a workstream building complex, multi-agent AI systems — owning the architecture, setting the technical bar, and acting as the bridge between engineering, product, security, and compliance.

Key Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership for a team/workstream building multi-agent and multi-model AI systems

Own architecture decisions and lead design reviews (Architecture Decision Records) for key AI initiatives

Architect scalable, full-stack AI solutions spanning data engineering, model training/fine-tuning, and LLMOps

Drive cost and performance optimization for AI systems running at enterprise scale

Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, Security, and Compliance to shape solution design

Evaluate and select AI tools, frameworks, and vendors for the team

Mentor and upskill engineers, fostering technical growth within the team

Balance hands-on technical contribution with team-level planning and delivery accountability

Skills & Key Competencies

Must-Have Technical Skills





Technical leadership of AI engineering workstreams or a small team

Architecting complex multi-agent/multi-model AI systems at scale

Full-stack AI expertise: data engineering, model training/fine-tuning, LLMOps, infrastructure

Owns architecture decisions and design reviews (ADRs)

Cross-functional partnership with Product, Data Science, Security, and Compliance

Cost and performance optimization of AI systems in production

Mentors and upskills engineers

Good-to-Have Technical Skills

Experience building/owning internal AI platforms or agent frameworks

Vendor and AI tool evaluation/selection

Contribution to AI governance and compliance frameworks (GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA-aware design)

Experience in regulated or highly audited environments

Key Competencies

Balances big-picture architectural thinking with a willingness to get into the weeds

Decisive under ambiguity — can make an 80%-confidence call and move the team forward

Solid stakeholder management across technical and non-technical audiences

Builds trust quickly with both engineers and cross-functional partners

Invests genuinely in growing people, not just shipping features

Holds a high technical bar without being a bottleneck

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