Senior AI/ML Engineer - AI Center of Excellence (CoE)
Location: Hybrid (Trivandrum/Kochi)
Role: Permanent
Budget: Upto 30LPA
Experience: 8-12 years
Must Have Skills:
8-12 years total, including 4-6 years software engineering + 4-5 years hands-on AI/ML (overlap acceptable). 2+ years technical leadership preferred.
Strong software engineering fundamentals: Python + solid backend engineering; ability to integrate with UI layers (web apps) as needed.
Hands-on AI/ML delivery: model development + deployment experience across traditional ML and deep learning, plus GenAI patterns (RAG, prompt engineering, evals; fine-tuning is a plus).
Experience building agentic / tool-using LLM systems (or equivalent orchestration patterns) in real implementations.
Cloud proficiency in one: AWS or Azure or GCP (compute, storage, networking, security; managed ML services a plus).
DevOps/MLOps: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD; ML lifecycle tooling such as MLflow/Kubeflow/SageMaker/Azure ML (or equivalent).
Working knowledge of enterprise data platforms / ETL pipelines.
Exposure to enterprise monitoring/ticketing (e.g., Splunk/Datadog/AppDynamics; Jira/ServiceNow) or similar operational toolchains.
Experience working in secure/regulatory environments and adhering to data governance (PII, access controls, auditability).
