Principal AI Engineer
Ecolab Inc.3 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define enterprise-wide architecture for GenAI systems, agent frameworks, LLM integration, and multi-agent orchestration.
- Establish AI governance standards covering security, ethical usage, context management, agent-to-agent protocols, and explainability.
- Evaluate and integrate AI tooling, frameworks, retrieval infrastructure, and observability platforms.
- Advise product teams, engineering pods, and data science on LLM implementation.
- Develop reusable GenAI components, SDKs, templates, and standardized deployment patterns.
- Review architectural proposals and ensure alignment with long-term AI strategy.
- Build internal GenAI capabilities through mentoring, technical talks, and hackathons.
- Support cross-region scalability, data sensitivity planning, and deployment performance benchmarking.
- Translate industry trends into actionable design and investment recommendations.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in AI/ML system design with hands-on GenAI, LLM, or agentic architecture implementation.
- Experience architecting production-grade GenAI platforms or frameworks at scale.
- Deep Python proficiency and mastery of GenAI libraries including OpenAI, Transformers, Pydantic, LangChain, FAISS, and Pinecone.
- Experience integrating AI into cloud environments, with Azure preferred, including Databricks and Azure Foundry.
- Strong knowledge of AI security, privacy frameworks, hallucination mitigation, and governance.
- Hands-on experience with MCP, A2A orchestration, or autonomous agent workflows is preferred.
- Open-source or community-based GenAI contributions, multi-product or multi-cloud AI strategy experience, executive communication skills, and published AI/LLM thought leadership are preferred.
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About Ecolab Inc.
Ecolab Inc. builds and sells water treatment chemicals and equipment, hygiene and infection-prevention products, and on-site service and digital monitoring for industrial and institutional customers. A NYSE-listed public company founded in 1923 and headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, it serves food, healthcare, life sciences, hospitality, manufacturing, and energy markets worldwide; its portfolio includes Nalco Water and, in data centers, CoolIT liquid-cooling solutions.