Senior AI Engineer

IN10 (FCRS = IN010) Novartis Healthcare Private Limited; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis Healthcare Private Limited in Hyderabad invites a Sr. Specialist DDIT US&I AI Engineering to shape enterprise AI strategy. You will design scalable, secure generative AI and agentic solutions, mentor teams, and drive responsible AI adoption in a regulated global environment.

You will work across cloud engineering, ML, and data platforms to deliver production-grade AI on AWS and Snowflake, with emphasis on security, observability, and cost management.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, AI or ML.
• Proven experience delivering production-grade AI on AWS.
• Strong Python and API development, security, and testing.
• Hands-on with Bedrock, SageMaker, agent orchestration, and document processing.
• Leadership in security, observability, reliability, and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement production-ready generative and agentic AI solutions using AWS and Snowflake.
• Build secure Retrieval-Augmented Generation solutions with hybrid search and sources.
• Develop intelligent agents with Bedrock AgentCore, LangChain, LangGraph, and Semantic Kernel.
• Create secure APIs and containerized backend services for models, agents, tools, and conversations.
• Build document-ingestion pipelines for PDF, Office, HTML and unstructured content.
• Develop secure Model Context Protocol clients and servers with auth and audit logging.
• Integrate Snowflake Cortex AI with AWS apps using private, governed connectivity.
• Establish multi-agent workflows, memory, task automation, and end-to-end traceability.
• Provide technical leadership through reusable architectures and design reviews.

Skills

Artificial Intelligence

Python

Machine Learning

Data Science

Data Governance

Data Quality

Data Visualization

Deep Learning

Learning Agility

Time Series Analysis

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/AI/ML/Data Science/Engineering

Tools

Amazon Bedrock

Amazon SageMaker

LangChain

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

Snowflake Cortex AI

AWS

Containerized services

Job description

Job Description Summary Internal Job Title: Sr. Specialist DDIT US&I AI Engineering #LI-Hybrid 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.

Job Description 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.

Skills Desired

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Biostatistics
• Change Management
• Curious Mindset
• Data Governance
• Data Literacy
• Data Quality
• Data Science
• Data Visualization
• Deep Learning
• Graph Algorithms
• Learning Agility
• Machine Learning (ML)
• Machine Learning Algorithms
• Python (Programming Language)
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Statistical Analysis
• Time Series Analysis

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