AI & Automation Engineer

Larsen & Toubro Limited; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

Larsen & Toubro Limited in Chennai is seeking a hands-on AI & data engineering leader who can turn business challenges into practical digital solutions on project sites.

You will identify opportunities, lead AI POCs and pilots, design data pipelines, build ML models, and deploy scalable AI applications using Azure OpenAI, Databricks, and Power BI dashboards for leadership insight.

Responsibilities

• Identify business challenges and digitalization opportunities across project and business functions.
• Work with stakeholders to understand operational pain points and translate requirements into practical digital solutions.
• Lead implementation, user acceptance testing (UAT), deployment and change management for new applications.
• Plan and run proof-of-concept (POC) and pilot deployments on project sites.
• Assess solutions for performance, scalability, safety and operational feasibility before scale-up.
• Design, build and deploy AI solutions that address business and operational challenges.
• Develop Agentic AI solutions using single-agent and multi-agent architectures.
• Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks on enterprise and project data.
• Evaluate and integrate foundation models and Large Language Models (LLMs) for business use cases.
• Develop AI applications using APIs, SDKs, orchestration frameworks and cloud-native services (e.g., Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Services, Databricks).
• Lead AI POCs, pilots and enterprise-scale rollouts, with appropriate evaluation and observability in place.
• Track emerging AI technologies, frameworks and industry best practices.
• Collect, clean, transform and validate data from multiple business systems.
• Design data pipelines and write optimized SQL for extraction and analysis.
• Build machine learning models for predictive and prescriptive analytics; perform exploratory data analysis.
• Create Power BI dashboards, scorecards and management reports that give leadership actionable insight.

Job description

The ideal candidate combines hands-on technical capability with a practical understanding of how projects are delivered on the ground

• Identify business challenges and digitalization opportunities across project and business functions.
• Work with stakeholders to understand operational pain points and translate requirements into practical digital solutions.
• Lead implementation, user acceptance testing (UAT), deployment and change management for new applications.
• Plan and run proof-of-concept (POC) and pilot deployments on project sites.
• Assess solutions for performance, scalability, safety and operational feasibility before scale-up.
• Design, build and deploy AI solutions that address business and operational challenges.
• Develop Agentic AI solutions using single-agent and multi-agent architectures.
• Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks on enterprise and project data.
• Evaluate and integrate foundation models and Large Language Models (LLMs) for business use cases.
• Develop AI applications using APIs, SDKs, orchestration frameworks and cloud-native services (e.g., Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Services, Databricks).
• Lead AI POCs, pilots and enterprise-scale rollouts, with appropriate evaluation and observability in place.
• Track emerging AI technologies, frameworks and industry best practices.
• Collect, clean, transform and validate data from multiple business systems.
• Design data pipelines and write optimized SQL for extraction and analysis.
• Build machine learning models for predictive and prescriptive analytics; perform exploratory data analysis.
• Create Power BI dashboards, scorecards and management reports that give leadership actionable insight.