Senior AI-ML Platform Engineer / Tech Lead
Merck Group · Bengaluru · onsite · Posted 58d ago
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Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more We know you've got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people's lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.
Senior AI/ML Platform Engineer / Technical Lead (all genders)
Your Role
As a Senior AI/ML Platform Engineer and Technical Lead, you will be at the heart of building and evolving the AI/ML platform that powers intelligent capabilities across the organisation. In this role, you will lead a team of professional engineers — setting clear objectives, supporting their development, and being accountable for the quality, accuracy, and timeliness of the team's output. You will solve complex, operationally important engineering challenges by filtering and prioritising inputs from a wide range of internal and external sources, drawing on an in-depth understanding of how platform sub-functions work together. Acting as a key technical liaison across Cloud, Cybersecurity, Governance, and adjacent engineering teams, you will ensure the platform remains aligned with enterprise standards and emerging best practices. Your decisions will be guided by resource availability and organisational objectives, and you will contribute to defining team responsibilities, engineering standards, and platform governance practices that raise the quality bar across closely related teams.
Who You Are
Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!
Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more We know you've got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people's lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.
Senior AI/ML Platform Engineer / Technical Lead (all genders)
Your Role
As a Senior AI/ML Platform Engineer and Technical Lead, you will be at the heart of building and evolving the AI/ML platform that powers intelligent capabilities across the organisation. In this role, you will lead a team of professional engineers — setting clear objectives, supporting their development, and being accountable for the quality, accuracy, and timeliness of the team's output. You will solve complex, operationally important engineering challenges by filtering and prioritising inputs from a wide range of internal and external sources, drawing on an in-depth understanding of how platform sub-functions work together. Acting as a key technical liaison across Cloud, Cybersecurity, Governance, and adjacent engineering teams, you will ensure the platform remains aligned with enterprise standards and emerging best practices. Your decisions will be guided by resource availability and organisational objectives, and you will contribute to defining team responsibilities, engineering standards, and platform governance practices that raise the quality bar across closely related teams.
Who You Are
- 8 or more years of relevant industry experience in software or platform engineering, including at least 2 years working with large language model operations (LLMOps) in a production environment.
- Hands-on experience with LLM/API gateway technologies such as LiteLLM or comparable solutions, and with multi-provider integration across major cloud AI platforms including Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, and AWS Bedrock.
- Practical experience with cloud-native technologies on AWS and/or Azure, including container orchestration (such as ECS Fargate), secrets management, relational and non-relational databases, networking, and load balancing.
- Proficiency in developing production-grade backend services using Python and asynchronous programming frameworks; experience with Rust is a plus.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tooling, including containerisation with Docker, pipeline automation with Azure DevOps, and cloud provisioning frameworks such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools used in AI/ML environments, such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or LLM-specific evaluation tooling.
- Experience with identity and access management technologies, including Entra ID, JWT, OIDC, SSO, API keys, and related IAM methods.
- Demonstrated ability to lead professional engineers, set team priorities, and drive platform quality — balancing hands-on technical depth with team accountability and a focus on scalable, well-governed engineering.
Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!
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Skills
asynchronous programming frameworkscloud provisioning frameworks such as Terraform or CloudFormationcontainerisation with Dockercontainer orchestration such as ECS Fargatedeveloping production-grade backend services using Pythonidentity and access management technologiesLLM API gateway technologiesmulti-provider integration across major cloud AI platformsnetworking and load balancingpipeline automation with Azure DevOpsinfrastructure as codesecrets managementRelational and non-relational databasesObservability and monitoring tools
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Merck Group
Pharma
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Darmstadt
Germany
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Merck Group is a global science and technology company specializing in healthcare, life sciences, and performance materials. The firm develops innovative pharmaceuticals, biotechnology solutions, and laboratory products that advance medical research and patient care. With a strong focus on scientific innovation and sustainability, Merck Group supports industries worldwide in improving health outcomes and driving technological progress.
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