PepsiCo

Deputy Director - AI Solution and Platforms Observability

PepsiCo
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2 months ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the technical subject-matter expert for computer vision, VLMs, vision agents, edge AI, and IoT.
  • Design, train, evaluate, optimize, and productionize computer vision models for detection, classification, segmentation, tracking, OCR, anomaly detection, and activity recognition.
  • Develop VLM and multimodal solutions for image and video understanding, visual reasoning, and operational intelligence.
  • Build vision agents combining visual intelligence, IoT telemetry, enterprise context, tools, and workflows.
  • Create reusable inference services, APIs, SDKs, model pipelines, and reference implementations.
  • Deploy and optimize AI workloads across edge GPUs, industrial PCs, smart cameras, and cloud/edge environments.
  • Integrate cameras, sensors, and IoT/OT systems using RTSP, ONVIF, MQTT, OPC UA, and related technologies.
  • Establish Vision MLOps practices for datasets, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and model drift.
  • Move solutions from proof of concept through pilot, production, and scale across manufacturing, warehouse, quality, EHS, and other domains.
  • Evaluate emerging computer vision, VLM, edge AI, vision agent, and physical AI technologies through prototyping and benchmarking.
  • Collaborate with domain and enterprise architects and mentor engineering teams on Vision Intelligence implementation.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of overall professional experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 8–12+ years of AI/software engineering experience, including 5+ years in Computer Vision or Vision AI.
  • Strong hands-on experience developing and deploying production-grade computer vision models and real-time video analytics.
  • Practical experience with VLMs, multimodal AI, and vision agents.
  • Experience with PyTorch, OpenCV, YOLO, ONNX, TensorRT, NVIDIA DeepStream, or equivalent technologies.
  • Experience deploying AI on GPU and edge platforms, containers, and Kubernetes/K3s.
  • Strong IoT/OT integration experience with cameras, sensors, gateways, and industrial environments.
  • Experience with computer vision MLOps, model optimization, evaluation, and production monitoring.
  • Demonstrated experience taking Vision AI solutions from prototype through production at multiple sites.
  • Manufacturing, warehouse, supply chain, quality, EHS, robotics, or industrial automation experience is highly desirable.
  • Exposure to digital twins, sensor fusion, robotics, and physical AI is a plus.

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About PepsiCo

10,000+ employees

PepsiCo is a global food and beverage company that manufactures, markets, and distributes snacks and drinks under brands such as Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Gatorade, Lay’s, Doritos, and Quaker Oats. It sells to consumers through retail, foodservice, and e-commerce channels, with products available in more than 200 countries and territories. Founded in 1965 and headquartered in Purchase, New York, PepsiCo is a public company listed on NASDAQ under the symbol PEP.

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