Principal AI Engineer

Job Description

We are supporting a Bengaluru-based technology client in hiring a Principal AI Engineer for a senior hands-on AI/ML leadership role.

The client is looking for a senior AI/ML leader with deep hands-on experience in architecting, building, deploying, and scaling production-grade machine learning systems. This is a player-coach role requiring strong technical ownership, architecture depth, engineering discipline, and the ability to mentor teams while remaining close to implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and build scalable production AI/ML systems and platforms
• Lead model deployment, evaluation, monitoring, and scalable inference practices
• Drive technical leadership across architecture, code reviews, mentoring, and engineering best practices
• Build robust ML workflows across training, deployment, retraining, and continuous model improvement
• Work closely with engineering, product, and leadership teams to convert AI/ML opportunities into production systems
• Improve reliability, performance, and scalability of AI/ML workloads

Must-Have Experience

• 12+ years of experience building production ML/AI systems
• Strong hands-on technical leadership experience across architecture, code reviews, mentoring, and best practices
• Strong experience with Python and PyTorch/TensorFlow
• Experience with model deployment, model evaluation, and scalable inference
• Experience with AWS, EKS/Kubernetes, and GPU-based training or inference
• Strong understanding of MLOps, production monitoring, retraining pipelines, or continuous model improvement
• Experience in computer vision, OCR, document AI, image processing, or spatial AI

Good To Have

• Geospatial/GIS exposure
• Agentic AI systems or orchestration experience
• AI-assisted engineering or agentic coding workflows
• Human-in-the-loop AI systems
• Experience productizing AI/ML services at scale