Job Responsibilities:
- Lead a local AI/ML team with accountability and engagement into a global organization.
- Mentor and guide team members, fostering an inclusive culture with a growth mindset.
- Collaborate on setting the technical vision and executing strategic roadmaps to drive AI innovation.
- Deliver AI/ML projects through our ML development life cycle using Agile methodology, help transform business requirements into AI/ML specifications, define milestones and ensure timely delivery.
- Work with product and business teams to define goals and roadmaps, maintain alignment with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Exercise sound technical judgment, anticipate bottlenecks, escalate effectively, and balance business needs versus technical constraints.
- Design experiments, establish mathematical intuitions, implement algorithms, execute test cases, validate results and productionize highly performant, scalable, trustworthy and often explainable solution.
- Mentor junior team members in delivering successful projects and building successful career in the firm.
- Participate and contribute back to firmwide Machine Learning communities through patenting, publications and speaking engagements.
- Evaluate and design effective processes and systems to facilitate communication, improve execution and ensure accountability.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on Predictive Science concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Track record of managing AI/ML or software development teams and experience as a hands-on practitioner developing production AI/ML solutions.
- Deep knowledge and experience in machine learning, artificial intelligence and ability to set teams up for success in speed and quality, design effective metrics and hypotheses.
- Expert in at least one of the following areas: Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Graph, Computer Vision, Speech Recognition, Reinforcement Learning, Ranking and Recommendation, or Time Series Analysis.
- Good understanding of Data structures, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Statistics.
- Demonstrated expertise in machine learning frameworks: Tensorflow, Pytorch, pyG, Keras, MXNet, Scikit-Learn.
- Strong programming knowledge of python, spark, strong grasp on vector operations using numpy, scipy and strong grasp on distributed computation using Multithreading, Multi GPUs, Dask, Ray, Polars etc.
- Familiarity with agentic workflows and relevant frameworks, such as LangChain, LangGraph, Auto-GPT etc.
- Familiarity in AWS Cloud services such as EMR, Sagemaker etc.,
- Strong people management, team-building skills and ability to coach and grow talent, foster a healthy engineering culture and attract/retain talent, build a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing team.
- Ability to inspire collaboration among teams composed of both technical and non-technical members, effective communication, solid negotiation skills, and strong leadership.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 14+ years (BE/BTech/BS) or 8+ (ME/MTech/MS) or 5+ (PhD) years of relevant experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, Statistics, Mathematics, or equivalent experience.
- Experience working at code level