Lead AI Engineer

About the role

You'll join a growing engineering team as a senior technical member, focused on enabling AI across internal processes, engineering and delivery workflows, and customer-facing products. You'll lead AI initiatives end to end, make technical decisions, and work closely with engineering and business teams to build practical, reliable AI solutions.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who enjoys solving complex problems and turning AI opportunities into production-ready solutions.

Location: Hyderabad

Work Mode: Hybrid

What you'll do

• Lead AI initiatives across internal process automation, engineering and delivery, and customer-facing workflows
• Identify opportunities to use AI to automate processes and improve engineering and operational efficiency
• Design and build AI-powered applications and workflows using Python
• Own AI initiatives from problem definition and experimentation through implementation and delivery
• Make technical decisions around architecture, implementation, and engineering best practices
• Work closely with engineering, product, and business teams to translate problems into practical AI solutions
• Evaluate new AI technologies and identify opportunities to apply them effectively
• Ensure AI solutions are reliable, scalable, maintainable, and production-ready
• Mentor and guide engineers working on AI initiatives

What we're looking for

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong, hands-on expertise in Python
• Experience building and deploying AI-powered applications, automation, or intelligent workflows
• Strong understanding of applying AI across internal processes, engineering workflows, and customer-facing products
• Strong understanding of software architecture, engineering best practices, and production environments
• Experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineers
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to take ownership of projects end to end
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Who you are

• You take ownership and drive work through to completion
• You're hands-on and enjoy building practical AI solutions
• You're technically curious and comfortable working with new AI technologies
• You're a strong problem solver who enjoys tackling complex and ambiguous challenges
• You communicate clearly and work well with different teams
• You lead by example and enjoy helping teams build and adopt new technologies