Deputy Director - AI Solution and Platforms Observability - PepsiCo

OpenTalent; Telangana; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent is seeking a senior hands-on contributor to enable enterprise Vision Intelligence capabilities across CV, VLMs, Vision Agents, Edge AI and IoT. You will partner with Domain and Enterprise Architecture teams to translate business needs into scalable, production-ready capabilities.

You will design, train and productionize CV models, develop multimodal solutions, and deploy AI workloads across edge and cloud environments while mentoring teams on Vision Intelligence implementation.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in the field with hands-on AI/software engineering background.
• 5+ years in Computer Vision and related AI domains.
• Experience building production-grade CV models and real-time analytics.
• Practical knowledge of VLMs, multimodal AI and Vision Agents.
• Experience deploying AI on GPU/edge platforms and containers.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical SME for Vision Intelligence across CV, VLMs, Vision Agents, Edge AI and IoT.
• Design, train, evaluate and productionize CV models for detection, classification, segmentation, tracking, OCR and more.
• Develop VLM and multimodal solutions for image/video understanding and operational intelligence.
• Build Vision Agents integrating visual intelligence, IoT telemetry, enterprise context and workflows.
• Enable reusable platform capabilities including inference services, APIs, SDKs and pipelines.
• Deploy AI workloads across edge GPUs, industrial PCs, cameras and cloud/edge environments.
• Integrate cameras, sensors and IoT/OT systems using RTSP, MQTT, OPC UA and related tech.
• Establish Vision MLOps for datasets, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring and drift.
• Mentor engineering teams and scale Vision Intelligence across sites.

Skills

Vision Intelligence

AI software engineering

Edge AI deployment

IoT integration

MLOps practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related

Tools

PyTorch

OpenCV

YOLO

ONNX

TensorRT

NVIDIA DeepStream

Kubernetes/K3s

Job description

Overview: Senior hands-on individual contributor responsible for enabling enterprise Vision Intelligence capabilities across Computer Vision, Vision-Language Models (VLMs), Vision Agents, Edge AI and IoT. Partners with Domain and Enterprise Architecture teams to translate business needs and architecture patterns into scalable, production-ready capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the technical SME for Vision Intelligence, covering CV, VLMs, Vision Agents, Edge AI and IoT.
• Design, train, evaluate and productionize CV models for detection, classification, segmentation, tracking, OCR, anomaly detection and activity recognition.
• Develop VLM and multimodal solutions for image/video understanding, visual reasoning and operational intelligence.
• Build Vision Agents combining visual intelligence, IoT telemetry, enterprise context, tools and workflows.
• Enable reusable platform capabilities including inference services, APIs, SDKs, model pipelines and reference implementations.
• Deploy and optimize AI workloads across edge GPUs, industrial PCs, smart cameras and cloud/edge environments.
• Integrate cameras, sensors and IoT/OT systems using RTSP, ONVIF, MQTT, OPC UA and related technologies.
• Establish Vision MLOps practices for datasets, evaluation, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring and model drift.
• Scale.
• Evaluate emerging CV, VLM, Edge AI, Vision Agent and Physical AI technologies through hands-on prototyping and benchmarking.
• Collaborate with Domain and Enterprise Architects and mentor engineering teams on Vision Intelligence implementation.

Qualifications:

• Overall 10+ years of overall experience is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 8–12+ years of AI/software engineering experience, including 5+ years in Computer Vision/Vision AI.
• Strong hands-on experience developing and deploying production-grade CV models and real-time video analytics.
• Practical experience with VLMs, multimodal AI and Vision Agents.
• Experience with PyTorch, OpenCV, YOLO, ONNX, TensorRT, NVIDIA DeepStream or equivalent technologies.
• Experience deploying AI on GPU/edge platforms, containers and Kubernetes/K3s.
• Strong IoT/OT integration experience with cameras, sensors, gateways and industrial environments.
• Experience with CV/Vision MLOps, model optimization, evaluation and production monitoring.
• Demonstrated experience taking Vision AI solutions from prototype through production at multiple sites.
• Manufacturing, warehouse, supply-chain, quality, EHS, robotics or industrial automation experience is highly desirable.
• Exposure to Digital Twins, sensor fusion, robotics and Physical AI is a plus.