Excelra

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Excelra
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14 days ago
Hyderābād, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the enterprise reference architecture for generative and agentic AI across models, retrieval, orchestration, reasoning, and governance.
  • Build hands-on prototypes, working proofs, demonstrations, reusable frameworks, blueprints, and paved-road patterns for engineering and product teams.
  • Lead AI solutioning from proof of concept to production, including experiments, roadmaps, and scale-up planning.
  • Establish shared AI platform and enablement capabilities for model serving, vector and graph retrieval, tool and agent orchestration, observability, and evaluation.
  • Embed traceability, human-in-the-loop controls, evaluation, and tenant isolation into AI architectures.
  • Own build-versus-buy decisions, set technical standards, run architecture reviews, and mentor engineers.
  • Communicate technical trade-offs to leadership, clients, and engineering teams.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in software or AI engineering.
  • Production-proven delivery of agentic, generative, and classical ML/DL systems beyond proof-of-concept work.
  • Hands-on experience with orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph and Dapr Agents, MCP, A2A, RAG, GraphRAG, Neo4j, pgvector, vLLM, and LLMOps.
  • Practical experience with model evaluation and guardrails, including making model quality measurable and defensible.
  • Command of classical ML/DL, generative AI, and agentic AI, with judgment to select the simplest effective approach.
  • Depth with AWS, Azure, or Databricks and familiarity with semantic layers and lakehouse architectures.
  • Experience owning end-to-end architecture and setting and evolving standards across an organization.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, including engagement with senior leadership, plus a track record of mentoring.
  • Preferred: life sciences, pharma, or healthcare experience and compliance-aware AI architecture involving GxP, GAMP 5, 21 CFR Part 11, ALCOA+, the EU AI Act, or HIPAA.
  • Preferred: knowledge graphs, semantic layers, ontologies, multi-tenant SaaS or customer-deployed system design, and public contributions on generative or agentic AI architecture.

Benefits

  • The role is based in Hyderabad or Bangalore.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureDatabricksNeo4j
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