Artificial Intelligence and Automation Engineer

Larsen & Toubro Ltd; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Larsen & Toubro Ltd in Chennai is seeking an AI & Automation Engineer who can translate business challenges into scalable digital solutions. The role requires hands-on technical delivery and practical understanding of how projects are deployed on the ground.

You will lead AI POCs and pilots, deploy applications, manage change, design data pipelines, build ML models, and create Power BI dashboards that provide leadership with actionable insights.

Qualifications

• Identify business challenges and digitalization opportunities across project and business functions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into digital solutions.
• Lead implementation, UAT, deployment and change management for new apps.
• Plan and run POC and pilot deployments on project sites.
• Assess solutions for performance, scalability, safety and feasibility.
• Design, build and deploy AI solutions addressing business and operational challenges.
• Develop Agentic AI using single- and multi-agent architectures.
• Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation frameworks on enterprise data.
• Evaluate and integrate foundation models and LLMs for use cases.
• Develop AI apps using APIs, SDKs, orchestration, cloud services (Azure OpenAI, Databricks).
• Lead AI POCs, pilots and enterprise-scale rollouts with observability.
• Track emerging AI tech and best practices.
• Collect, clean, transform and validate data from multiple systems.
• Design data pipelines and write optimized SQL for extraction and analysis.
• Build ML models for predictive analytics; perform EDA.
• Create Power BI dashboards and management reports for leadership insights.

Responsibilities

• Identify business challenges and digitalization opportunities across project and business functions.
• Work with stakeholders to understand pain points and translate requirements into practical digital solutions.
• Lead implementation, UAT, deployment and change management for new applications.
• Plan and run POC and pilot deployments on project sites.
• Assess performance, scalability, safety and feasibility before scale-up.
• Design data pipelines and write optimized SQL for extraction and analysis.

Job description

AI & Automation Engineer

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.