Lead AI Engineer

About the role

You'll join a growing engineering team as a senior technical member, focused on enabling AI across internal processes, engineering and delivery workflows, and customer-facing products. You'll lead AI initiatives end to end, make technical decisions, and work closely with engineering and business teams to build practical, reliable AI solutions.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who enjoys solving complex problems and turning AI opportunities into production-ready solutions.

Location: Hyderabad

Work Mode: Hybrid

What you'll do

Lead AI initiatives across internal process automation, engineering and delivery, and customer-facing workflows

Identify opportunities to use AI to automate processes and improve engineering and operational efficiency

Design and build AI-powered applications and workflows using Python

Own AI initiatives from problem definition and experimentation through implementation and delivery

Make technical decisions around architecture, implementation, and engineering best practices

Work closely with engineering, product, and business teams to translate problems into practical AI solutions

Evaluate new AI technologies and identify opportunities to apply them effectively

Ensure AI solutions are reliable, scalable, maintainable, and production-ready

Mentor and guide engineers working on AI initiatives

What we're looking for

8+ years of software engineering experience

Strong, hands-on expertise in Python

Experience building and deploying AI-powered applications, automation, or intelligent workflows

Strong understanding of applying AI across internal processes, engineering workflows, and customer-facing products

Strong understanding of software architecture, engineering best practices, and production environments

Experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineers

Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to take ownership of projects end to end

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Who you are

You take ownership and drive work through to completion

You're hands-on and enjoy building practical AI solutions

You're technically curious and comfortable working with new AI technologies

You're a strong problem solver who enjoys tackling complex and ambiguous challenges

You communicate clearly and work well with different teams

You lead by example and enjoy helping teams build and adopt new technologies