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Lead AI Architect

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2 months ago
Pune, India or Mumbai, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical architecture for multi-agent systems, LLM orchestration, and AI automation workflows.
  • Establish and maintain the agentic engineering stack, including frameworks, testing, monitoring, and deployment patterns.
  • Own technical designs for AI orchestration use cases across more than four client implementations.
  • Build reusable agent components, tool-use libraries, and prompt templates.
  • Configure Genie spaces for client data exploration.
  • Mentor Senior Agentic Engineers and conduct code reviews and architecture discussions.
  • Evaluate LLM providers and recommend model choices based on cost and latency tradeoffs.
  • Bridge Data Science model outputs with efficient agentic deployment and model serving.
  • Collaborate with the onshore Senior AI Engineer on architecture decisions and technical standards.
  • Create technical documentation, runbooks, and operational playbooks for the agentic platform.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years in AI/ML engineering.
  • Deep expertise in Python and production-grade software architecture.
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications at scale.
  • Strong knowledge of agent orchestration patterns and frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, or custom frameworks.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably Azure, including container orchestration and serverless patterns.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards.
  • Experience with MLOps, including model serving, monitoring, versioning, and cost management.
  • Strong system design skills with distributed systems and API architecture experience.
  • Excellent written communication for technical documentation and cross-timezone collaboration.
  • Preferred: experience with Databricks, Unity Catalog, and/or Genie.
  • Preferred: background in media technology, adtech, or marketing analytics platforms.
  • Preferred: experience with RAG architectures, vector databases, and semantic search at scale.
  • Preferred: contributions to open-source AI/ML projects.
  • Preferred: experience leading technical teams in a DGS/offshore delivery model.

Benefits

  • Full-time permanent employment.
  • Hybrid work arrangement.
  • Location options include Bengaluru, Pune, and Mumbai; the listed DGS India location is Mumbai - Thane Ashar IT Park.
  • Brand: Merkle.

Tech Stack

AzureDatabricksPython

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