Citi

Lead Gen AI Engineer - Vice President

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3 days ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement generative AI and agentic AI solutions for enterprise business challenges.
  • Architect context engineering strategies, including context layering, chaining, compression, pruning, offloading, and memory management.
  • Build prompt-engineering, RAG, hybrid-search, multi-vector retrieval, re-ranking, knowledge graph, and Graph RAG systems.
  • Design agentic workflows, multi-agent systems, agent harnesses, governance controls, feedback loops, state management, and execution controls.
  • Integrate agents with tools and data using MCP and coordinate inter-agent collaboration using A2A.
  • Support production deployment, scalability, observability, maintainability, and real-time or streaming AI solutions.
  • Apply ethical AI guidelines, guardrails, agent isolation, sandboxing, data privacy, and compliance standards.
  • Mentor junior team members, conduct code reviews, share knowledge, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, AI, or a related field.
  • 5–7 years of experience in AI or software development, including significant Generative AI and agentic AI experience.
  • Deep hands-on knowledge of foundation models, LLMs, embeddings, tokenization, and context-window management.
  • Advanced prompt and context engineering experience, including dynamic context orchestration.
  • Experience building RAG systems, knowledge graphs, Graph RAG pipelines, and multi-hop retrieval using technologies such as Neo4j or ArangoDB.
  • Experience with Google ADK or comparable agent frameworks such as LangGraph, Microsoft Agent Framework, CrewAI, or OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • Experience with multi-agent orchestration, tool and function calling, planning, memory, harness engineering, agent isolation, and sandboxing.
  • Hands-on experience with MCP and A2A protocols, agent observability, evaluation, and OpenTelemetry-based tooling.
  • Proficiency with OpenAI, Gemini, and Claude APIs, as well as LangChain and LlamaIndex.
  • Strong NLP skills, including NER, dependency parsing, text classification, and topic modeling.
  • Proficiency with vector databases, embedding models, Python, data preprocessing, document ingestion, and API development.
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and AWS or equivalent cloud infrastructure.
  • Demonstrated portfolio of successful AI-driven business projects and the ability to collaborate, communicate, solve problems, learn, and mentor.
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