Technical Lead – AI Product (LLM/NLP + Backend)

Job Title: Technical Lead – AI Product (LLM/NLP + Backend)

Location: Remote or Hybrid – India (Chennai/Bangalore preferred but not mandatory)

8–12 years

🎯 About the Role

We’re building a domain-specific internal AI assistant that leverages large language models (LLMs) to transform how industrial distributors manage operations, sales, training, and supply chains.

We’re looking for a hands-on Technical Lead who can wear multiple hats—project manager, backend architect, and LLM integration lead. This is a player-coach role: you’ll lead a small team, drive architecture decisions, manage delivery, and directly contribute to development.

🚀 Key Responsibilities

Lead technical architecture for a product that connects ERP/CRM data, vector databases, and LLMs via APIs.

Act as Project Manager—owning roadmap delivery, sprint planning, internal QA, and customer communication. Guide and review work of 5–7 developers (NLP, backend, frontend, DevOps) as the team scales.

Build proof-of-concept LLM applications using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and tools like LangChain, LlamaIndex, Pinecone.

Oversee backend API development (FastAPI or similar), data pipelines, and cloud deployment (AWS/GCP). Interface with domain experts (supply chain, training) and ensure AI outputs align with real-world use cases.

Drive hiring, technical screening, and team building for initial team setup.

🧠 Required Skills & Experience

• 3+ years experience in leading small cross-functional teams (including hiring and mentoring)
• 5+ years of backend development experience (Python preferred)

Strong understanding of:

• LLM frameworks like OpenAI GPT, Claude, Hugging Face
• LangChain, LlamaIndex, and vector search engines (e.g. Pinecone, Chroma, Weaviate)
• APIs, microservices, FastAPI/Django, RESTful design
• Experience with data pipelines, SQL/NoSQL, and structuring unstructured business data
• Familiarity with cloud services (AWS Lambda, EC2, S3, IAM, or GCP equivalents)
• Comfortable with ERP/CRM concepts and data structures (e.g., order history, inventory logs)

💡 Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with industrial distribution, e-commerce, or supply chain platforms
• Basic prompt engineering or fine-tuning of LLMs
• Exposure to RPA, workflow automation, or middleware tools (e.g., Zapier, Airbyte)

🤝 You’ll Succeed If You Are...

• A self-starter with a bias for action and curiosity
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and creating structure from scratch
• Passionate about building clean, scalable systems
• Excited by the idea of training AI on real-world operational data
• Able to communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders (e.g., clients, domain experts)

💼 What We Offer

• Opportunity to lead a greenfield AI product team
• Work with direct access to world calls USA based B2B companies
• Fully remote + flexible working hours
• High-ownership role with visibility into strategic decisions