Dentsu

AI Lead Architect

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13 hours ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead hands-on engineering and architecture for end-to-end Deep Learning, GenAI, Agentic AI, multimodal, and applied ML solutions.
  • Evaluate AI use cases for technical feasibility, effort, cost, risk, and production viability using fail-fast principles.
  • Own reference architectures and design patterns for multimodal agentic systems involving planning, tool use, memory, grounding, and inter-agent communication.
  • Design multi-agent systems, multimodal pipelines, SLM strategies, hybrid retrieval architectures, and knowledge-grounded solutions.
  • Establish evaluation frameworks, golden datasets, regression suites, automated and human-in-the-loop evaluations, observability, safety guardrails, and hallucination controls.
  • Lead red-teaming, adversarial testing, production-readiness reviews, GPU and accelerator operations, model serving, and AI lifecycle automation.
  • Set standards for reliability, latency, cost, monitoring, drift detection, and incident response in regulated enterprise environments.
  • Mentor engineers through code and architecture reviews and establish AI software development lifecycle frameworks.
  • Engage client and stakeholder leadership on architecture, feasibility, risk, technical direction, effort estimation, and solution framing.
  • Support pre-sales and solutioning for GenAI and Agentic AI opportunities.

Requirements

  • Minimum 8 years of total hands-on software development or engineering experience.
  • Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience building and deploying Deep Learning or AI systems in production.
  • Strong hands-on experience with neural networks, Transformers, predictive modeling, embeddings, and vector search.
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs, SLMs, RAG, Agentic RAG, agents, prompt engineering, grounding, multimodal architectures, and production GenAI solutions.
  • Practical experience with fine-tuning or optimization techniques such as SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, RLHF, RLAIF, distillation, or quantization.
  • Hands-on experience with multi-agent orchestration, planning, tool use, memory, and agentic workflows; experience with LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or AutoGen.
  • Advanced Python and SQL skills with strong API and backend engineering experience using FastAPI, Flask, Django, or equivalent frameworks.
  • Experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying AI/ML solutions in enterprise production environments.
  • Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Experience with MongoDB, NoSQL, vector databases, graph databases, or equivalent data platforms.
  • Demonstrable GenAI or Agentic AI experience beyond basic API integrations or simple RAG implementations, such as multi-agent systems, custom fine-tuning, advanced RAG, or SLM deployments.
  • Experience with commerce cloud ecosystems such as Salesforce and Adobe is preferred.
  • Willingness to work from the Pune office at least 3 days per week.

Benefits

  • Full-time permanent employment.
  • Hybrid work structure requiring at least 3 days per week in the Pune office.

Tech Stack

Dentsu

About Dentsu

10,000+ employees

Dentsu is a global advertising and marketing services group that plans and buys media, develops creative campaigns, and builds data- and technology-led customer experiences for brands. It earns revenue from agency fees and media services across a network that includes Carat, iProspect, and Merkle. Founded in 1901 and headquartered in Tokyo, Dentsu is publicly traded in Japan and serves clients across many sectors worldwide.

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