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MSD

Associate Director, Commercial AI – Tech Lead

MSD

. Define and lead the technical vision, architecture, and engineering execution for Commercial AI and Agentic AI products in India .

Posted 11/11/2026full-timeHyderabad • IndiaSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading the technical vision and architecture for AI products, with a strong focus on LLMOps and MLOps practices. Proven ability to mentor teams, drive delivery, and implement scalable AI solutions in regulated environments.

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LLMOps/MLOps PracticesPython ProgrammingCloud-Native Foundations (Azure, AWS, GCP)AI Product EngineeringTeam Leadership and Mentorship

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Hard Skills
Production DeploymentsAPI/Service DevelopmentCode ReviewsContinuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)Prompt EngineeringAgent EvaluationData Privacy/Security-by-DesignMulti-Step Agent DesignReference ArchitecturesModel Governance
Soft Skills
Stakeholder CommunicationMentoringCoachingCulture Building
Tools & Technologies
DataBricks AIBIDataIku AIContainersOrchestration ToolsAutomated Testing
Certifications & Qualifications
Master's Degree in Computer Science or Related Field
Industry Keywords
Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningData ScienceRegulated EnvironmentsHuman-in-the-Loop (HITL)

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Define and lead the technical vision, architecture, and engineering execution for Commercial AI and Agentic AI products in India
  • Build and scale enterprise-grade LLM-powered and agent-based solutions from prototyping through production deployment
  • Own reference architectures covering RAG, orchestration, tool integration, identity, and observability
  • Lead end-to-end delivery from discovery through design, build, deployment, monitoring, and iteration
  • Engineer and ship agentic workflows with planning, tool calling, reflection, memory, and guardrails
  • Establish LLMOps/MLOps practices including versioning, evaluation, rollout/rollback, monitoring, and continuous improvement
  • Build reusable templates, SDKs, integration patterns, and deployment scaffolds across commercial products and teams
  • Drive governance, risk controls, responsible AI, privacy, auditability, and human-in-the-loop controls
  • Implement LLM and agent evaluation and quality frameworks
  • Own observability, tracing, cost and usage dashboards, incident triage, postmortems, and reliability improvements
  • Optimize latency, quality, and cost through caching, prompt/RAG tuning, model routing, and benchmarking
  • Translate commercial problems into AI roadmaps, measurable outcomes, and scalable platform components
  • Align solutions with SDLC and validation expectations for regulated environments
  • Mentor and lead engineers and data scientists through design reviews, coding standards, coaching, hiring input, and culture building

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Master's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline with strong focus on AI/ML and modern data systems
  • 8+ years of relevant experience across software engineering, ML engineering, MLOps/LLMOps, or AI product engineering
  • Hands-on experience with production deployments at scale
  • 4+ years leading teams and driving delivery across multiple stakeholders
  • Proven ability to mentor and raise engineering standards
  • Strong hands-on proficiency in Python, API/service development, Git, code reviews, and CI/CD
  • Proven experience implementing LLM applications and/or AI agents in production, including evaluation and monitoring
  • Strong cloud-native foundation across Azure, AWS, or GCP, including containers, orchestration, automated testing, release discipline, and operational excellence
  • Capability to establish reusable frameworks/SDKs, integration patterns, and scalable operating models for AI delivery
  • Excellent stakeholder communication with technical and non-technical audiences
  • Hands-on experience designing multi-step agents with planning, tool/function calling, orchestration, and reflection loops
  • Understanding of memory patterns, grounding strategies, and failure-mode handling
  • Ability to implement guardrails, policy enforcement, prompt injection defenses, tool-use constraints, HITL checkpoints, and safe fallbacks
  • Expertise in agent evaluation, trajectory analysis, tool-call accuracy, safety checks, and regression automation
  • Practical knowledge of prompt engineering, structured outputs, reliability techniques, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, fine-tuning approaches, and model selection
  • Experience with DataBricks AIBI, DataIku AI, or other enterprise AI engines
  • Experience defining reference architectures and integrating AI/agent services with enterprise applications/APIs, authentication/authorization, logging, and audit trails
  • Working knowledge of model governance, documentation, validation, monitoring, auditability, and human oversight in regulated environments
  • Data privacy/security-by-design knowledge, including access controls, encryption, secure secrets, and InfoSec collaboration

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Hybrid work arrangement
  • Regular employee status