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 and frameworks, including retrieval infrastructure and observability platforms.
- Advise product teams, engineering pods, and data science teams on LLM implementation.
- Develop reusable components, SDKs, and templates for standardized GenAI deployment patterns.
- Review architectural proposals from Lead Engineers and ensure alignment with long-term AI strategy.
- Build internal GenAI capability through mentoring, technical talks, and hackathons.
- Support cross-region scalability, data sensitivity, deployment performance benchmarking, and AI strategy recommendations.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in AI/ML system design with substantial GenAI, LLM, or agentic architecture implementation.
- Proven experience architecting production-grade GenAI platforms or frameworks at scale.
- Deep proficiency in Python and GenAI libraries including OpenAI, transformers, Pydantic, LangChain, FAISS, and Pinecone.
- Experience integrating AI into cloud environments; Azure, Databricks, and Azure Foundry experience is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of AI security, privacy frameworks, hallucination mitigation, and governance.
- Hands-on MCP, A2A orchestration, or autonomous agent workflow experience is preferred.
- Open-source or community GenAI contributions, multi-product or multi-cloud AI strategy experience, executive communication, 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.