Senior AI Engineer

Novartis India; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Job summary

Novartis India in Hyderabad seeks a Sr. Specialist DDIT US&I AI Engineering to design and deliver scalable generative AI and agentic AI solutions. You will bridge cloud engineering, ML, and enterprise data to transform business opportunities into innovative AI capabilities.

You will mentor teams, drive responsible AI, and build secure production-grade apps on AWS and Snowflake, focusing on retrieval-augmented generation, agents, and secure APIs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software/cloud AI experience.
• Production-grade generative AI and agentic AI on AWS.
• Proficient in Python, API development, security, testing, and containers.
• Hands-on with Bedrock, SageMaker, document processing, retrieval, and evaluation.
• Strong security, reliability, observability and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Design production-ready AI solutions using AWS and Snowflake.
• Build secure Retrieval-Augmented Generation with hybrid search and embeddings.
• Develop intelligent agents with LangChain, AgentCore, and orchestration tools.
• Create secure APIs and containerized backends for models and tools.
• Build document-ingestion pipelines for multi-format content.
• Ensure security, governance, audit logging, and compliance.
• Lead technical reviews, mentoring, and deployment handover.

Skills

Python

API development

Secure software engineering

Testing & debugging

Containerized services

Amazon Bedrock

Amazon SageMaker

Intelligent agent orchestration

Document processing

Retrieval augmented generation

Model evaluation

Security & compliance

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Snowflake Cortex AI

Snowflake

LangChain

AWS (Bedrock, SageMaker)

Job description

Summary

Internal Job Title: Sr. Specialist DDIT US&I AI Engineering

Internal Job Title: Sr. Specialist DDIT US&I AI Engineering

Location: Hyderabad, India

Relocation Support: Yes

Are you passionate about turning cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence innovations into real-world business impact? As a Sr. Specialist DDIT US&I AI Engineering, you will play a key role in shaping the future of enterprise AI by designing and delivering scalable, secure, and production-ready generative AI and agentic AI solutions. Working at the intersection of cloud engineering, intelligent agents, machine learning, and enterprise data platforms, you will transform complex business opportunities into innovative solutions that improve how we discover insights, automate processes, and create value. This is an exciting opportunity to influence AI strategy, build next-generation capabilities on AWS and Snowflake, mentor engineering teams, and drive the adoption of responsible AI in a highly regulated, global environment.

About The Role

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement production-ready generative and agentic artificial intelligence solutions using Amazon Web Services and Snowflake.
• Build secure Retrieval-Augmented Generation solutions with hybrid search, embeddings, reranking, metadata, and enterprise knowledge sources.
• Develop intelligent agents using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, and approved orchestration frameworks.
• Create secure application programming interfaces and containerized backend services for models, agents, tools, and conversational experiences.
• Build document-ingestion pipelines for PDF, Office, HTML, presentation, structured, and unstructured enterprise content.
• Develop secure Model Context Protocol clients and servers with authentication, authorization, validation, audit logging, and execution controls.
• Integrate Snowflake Cortex AI capabilities with Amazon Web Services applications using governed, secure, and private connectivity patterns.
• Implement multi-agent workflows, human review, memory management, task automation, approval controls, and end-to-end traceability.
• Establish evaluation, observability, security, responsible artificial intelligence, reliability, performance, and cost-management practices.
• Provide technical leadership through reusable architectures, coding standards, design reviews, mentoring, deployment, and operational handover.

Essential Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or related disciplines.
• Proven experience designing and delivering production-grade generative artificial intelligence, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and agentic artificial intelligence solutions on Amazon Web Services.
• Strong proficiency in Python, application programming interface development, secure software engineering, testing, debugging, and containerized services.
• Hands-on experience with Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, intelligent agent orchestration, document processing, retrieval, grounding, and evaluation frameworks.
• Demonstrated expertise in enterprise security, responsible artificial intelligence, observability, reliability, compliance, and technical leadership.

Desirable Requirements

• Experience delivering Artificial Intelligence solutions within pharmaceutical, healthcare, life sciences, or other regulated environments.
• Advanced expertise with Snowflake Cortex AI, Model Context Protocol frameworks, enterprise agent platforms, or large language model operations practices.

Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Accessibility and accommodation

Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to [e-mail] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message

Why Novartis:

Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

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