AI Engineer Advisor

You are applying for the position of AI Engineer Advisor at NTT DATA in Pune, Maharashtra, India. As a Senior AI Engineer, your role will involve designing, building, and productionizing GenAI and agentic systems on hyperscalers like Azure, AWS, and GCP. Your responsibilities will include leading development from problem framing to MLOps deployment, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with product, design, and clients. Key Responsibilities: - Design & build GenAI/agentic systems such as chat copilots, workflow/graph agents, and tool use - Implement chunking, hybrid search, vector stores, re-ranking, feedback loops, and continuous data quality/evaluation - Select, integrate, and finetune LLMs & multimodal models - Apply prompt-engineering techniques to specific use cases and types - Work on solutions based on LLM, NLP, DL, ML, object detection/classification, etc. - Have a clear understanding of CI/CD and configuring guardrails, PII redaction - Collaborate with clients/stakeholders from multiple geographies - Stay informed about the latest advancements in Gen AI, machine learning, and AI technologies Qualifications: - Bachelors/Masters Degree or equivalent - 8+ years in software/ML engineering, with 1.5+ years hands-on experience with LLMs/GenAI and agentic frameworks - Proven track record of shipping production AI systems on at least one hyperscaler - Experience leading teams and owning end-to-end delivery Required Skills: - Strong Python experience for building AI-ML/GenAI solutions - Experience working on Agent orchestration with leading frameworks like LangGraph, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI, AutoGen - Strong experience with Vector DBs like Pinecone, Milvus, Redis/pgvector, hybrid search, and re-rankers - Experience with evaluation & observability, SQL Query, NLP, CV, Deep Learning Algorithms - Working experience with Open Source Models - Experience with UI/UX is an added advantage NTT DATA is a trusted global innovator of business and technology services, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. Committed to helping clients innovate, optimize, and transform, NTT DATA has diverse experts in more than 50 countries. Their services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation, and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity. NTT DATA is a leading provider of digital and AI infrastructure, part of the NTT Group investing in R&D to support organizations and society in moving confidently into the digital future. Visit us at us.nttdata.com.,