AI Engineer Advisor

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NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.

We are currently seeking a AI Engineer Advisor to join our team in Pune, Mahārāshtra (IN-MH), India (IN).

Location: | Experience: 8+ years

Role Overview

We're hiring a Senior AI Engineer to design, build, and productionize GenAI and agentic systems (RAG, tool-using agents, workflow/graph-based orchestration) on one or more hyperscalers (Azure, AWS, GCP). You'll lead development across the full lifecycle—problem framing, data/feature/RAG pipeline design, model selection/finetuning, safety/guardrails, evaluation/observability, and MLOps deployment—while mentoring junior engineers and partnering with product, design, and clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Design & build GenAI/agentic systems (chat copilots, workflow/graph agents, tool use, memory)
• Implement chunking, hybrid search, vector stores, re-ranking, feedback loops, and continuous data quality/eval.
• Select/integrate/finetune LLMs & multimodal models
• Apply prompt-engineering techniques to specific use cases and types
• Experience working on solutions based on LLM, NLP, DL (Deep Learning), ML (Machine Learning), object detection / classification etc.
• Should have clear understanding of CI/CD.
• Should have knowledge in configuring guardrails, PII redaction.
• Finetune LLM models
• Should be able to work on solution building along with presales/customer teams
• Collaborate with clients/Stakeholders from multiple Geographies.
• Stay informed about the latest advancements in Gen AI, machine learning, and AI technologies to optimize our technical stack.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master's Degree or equivalent.
• 8+ years in software/ML engineering, 1.5+ years hands-on with LLMs/GenAI and agentic frameworks.
• Proven track record shipping production AI systems on at least one hyperscaler (Azure/AWS/GCP).
• Experience leading 3–6 engineers and owning end-to-end delivery.

Required Skills

• Strong Python experience to build multiple AI-ML/ GenAI Solutions.
• Should have experience working on Agent orchestration with leading frameworks like LangGraph, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI, AutoGen.
• Strong experience working on Vector DB like Pinecone, Milvus, Redis/pgvector); Should have experience working on hybrid search and re-rankers
• Should have experience on evaluation & observability
• Experience working on SQL Query, NLP, CV, Deep Learning Algorithms
• Should have working experience with Open Source Models
• Experience on UI/UX will be added advantage.

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RESUME SELECTION Guidelines:

• Delivered at least 2 GenAI/Agentic AI solutions for clients
• Extensive experience of minimum 6+ years on Python
• Led 2–3 successful client POCs/MVPs
• Led team of minimum 3 GenAI Engineers

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