Engineering Lead ( AI/ML, Gen AI)

algoleap; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,600,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

algoleap is seeking an experienced AI Engineer to design and deploy AI solutions across business problems, from document extraction to LLM-based agents. You will apply AI engineering best practices, governance, and observability to production systems.

You will mentor engineers, translate AI capabilities into concrete business outcomes, communicate trade-offs to stakeholders, and help set technical direction for the team in Hyderabad.

Skills

8+ years software engineering

3+ years applied AI/ML in production

Hands-on AI solution development

Python programming

Observability in AI systems

Model governance

Token economics & cost management

Dashboards / metrics systems

Leadership / mentoring

Business-minded with clear comms

Job description

• ‒ Design and build AI solutions across a range of business problems, choosing the right approach for each: document and image extraction or classification, predictive models, workflow automation, LLM-based agents and more.
• ‒ Apply AI engineering best practices across every project: prompt design, retrieval strategies, evaluation frameworks, regression testing and version control for models and prompts.
• ‒ Set and enforce model governance standards: approval workflows, risk and bias assessment, and documentation for every model promoted to production.
• ‒ Build observability into every AI system: logging, tracing and monitoring for inputs, outputs, latency and failure modes, so issues surface before they reach the business.
• ‒ Own token economics and compute cost across LLM-based and other AI systems: track cost per request, choose the right model size for each task, and balance accuracy against spend.
• ‒ Build and maintain a dashboard that tracks the metrics that matter, such as accuracy, latency, cost, throughput, drift and error rate, across every AI system in production.
• ‒ Evaluate and select the right AI approach for each problem, whether that is an LLM, a classical machine learning model, computer vision or a mix, based on what the problem actually needs rather than what is fashionable.
• ‒ Mentor engineers on AI engineering practices, and build a shared standard for how the team designs, tests and ships AI systems.
• ‒ Explain what an AI system can and cannot do, in plain terms, to non-technical stakeholders and leadership, so expectations stay realistic.
• ‒ Track new AI and machine learning techniques, and test them against real business needs rather than adopting them for their own sake.

What You Bring

• ‒ 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years focused on applied AI or machine learning in production.
• ‒ Hands-on experience building and deploying a range of AI solutions, such as document or image extraction and classification, predictive models, recommendation systems, or LLM-based agents and assistants.
• ‒ Strong programming skills in Python or a comparable language, and fluency with standard AI and ML tooling: model frameworks, orchestration frameworks and vector databases.
• ‒ Experience building observability into AI systems: logging, tracing, monitoring and alerting for model behaviour in production.
• ‒ Experience with model governance: approval workflows, risk and bias assessment, and documentation standards for models moving into production.
• ‒ Working knowledge of token economics and compute cost management for AI systems at scale.
• ‒ Experience building dashboards or metrics systems that track model and system performance over time.
• ‒ A track record of leading or mentoring engineers and setting technical direction, not only contributing as an individual.
• ‒ Strong business acumen: you translate an AI capability into a concrete business outcome, and you know when a simpler, non-AI solution is the right call.
• ‒ Clear communication skills. You explain technical trade-offs to engineers and non-technical stakeholders alike, without losing precision.

Nice to Have

• ‒ Experience with document or image classification and extraction, as one of several AI domains you have worked in.
• ‒ Experience with a dashboarding tool such as Power BI, Tableau or Grafana, used for tracking model and system metrics.
• ‒ Familiarity with prompt versioning or evaluation frameworks used for regression testing model outputs.
• ‒ Exposure to a data-intensive industry, such as real estate, financial services or health care.