Senior AI Engineer Azure AI Foundry Intelligent Document Processing

Arcturus Consulting Services Inc.; Chennai; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcturus Consulting Services Inc. seeks an AI Engineer to design, develop and deploy enterprise-grade AI solutions on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI and IDP tech in PAN India. The role emphasizes OCR, document intelligence and LLM-driven automation for complex business documents.

You will lead end-to-end development, fine-tune models, implement RAG architectures, and integrate AI with ERP and enterprise systems while upholding governance and security standards.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software development and AI engineering.
• 4+ years implementing AI/ML solutions in Azure.
• 3+ years delivering enterprise OCR and document intelligence projects.
• Experience deploying production-grade GenAI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise AI solutions using Azure AI Foundry.
• Develop and deploy LLM-powered apps with Azure OpenAI.
• Build RAG architectures and agentic AI solutions.
• Create document understanding pipelines for OCR and classification.
• Ensure governance, security and responsible AI principles.

Skills

Azure AI

Python

LLMs

OCR

Computer Vision

MLOps

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/AI/DS

Master's degree in CS/AI

Tools

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

LangChain

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative AI Engineer to design, develop and deploy enterprise-grade AI solutions using Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Services and advanced Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) technologies.

The ideal candidate will lead the development of complex OCR and document understanding solutions capable of extracting, classifying, validating and processing highly unstructured business documents including invoices, engineering drawings, RFQs, contracts, site plans, purchase orders, handwritten forms and multi-page tabular documents.

This role requires expertise in Generative AI, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and enterprise-scale automation platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise AI solutions using Azure AI Foundry
• Develop and deploy LLM-powered applications using Azure OpenAI
• Build Agentic AI solutions utilizing autonomous agents and orchestration frameworks
• Create RAG architectures integrating enterprise knowledge repositories
• Develop AI copilots, chatbots and intelligent assistants using Microsoft Copilot Studio and Azure AI services
• Fine-tune and optimize foundation models for domain-specific business use cases
• Architect advanced OCR solutions capable of processing structured, semi-structured and completely unstructured documents, handwritten forms, engineering drawings, construction plans, multi-page tables, scanned PDFs and images with poor quality and noise
• Develop custom extraction models using Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure Computer Vision, Azure Form Recognizer, Azure Custom Vision and open-source OCR frameworks
• Build document classification, entity extraction, key-value extraction and table recognition pipelines
• Implement confidence scoring, validation rules and human-in-the-loop review workflows
• Improve OCR accuracy through advanced image preprocessing techniques including deskewing, denoising, adaptive thresholding, image enhancement and layout detection
• Build scalable AI solutions on Azure cloud leveraging Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure Machine Learning, Azure AI Search, Azure Document Intelligence, Azure Functions, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Data Factory, Azure Storage Services, Azure Cosmos DB and Microsoft Fabric
• Implement MLOps and LLMOps practices
• Automate deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions
• Develop predictive and generative AI models
• Train and evaluate custom computer vision models
• Build document classification and information extraction models
• Optimize inference performance and model accuracy
• Establish AI monitoring, governance and observability frameworks
• Integrate AI solutions with Oracle ERP, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Power Platform, UiPath and REST APIs
• Support automation initiatives combining AI and RPA technologies
• Ensure all AI solutions comply with enterprise AI governance standards
• Implement responsible AI principles
• Develop secure, scalable and auditable AI frameworks
• Manage model lifecycle, security, compliance and risk assessments

Requirements

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Engineering or related field

Experience

• 7+ years in software development and AI engineering
• 4+ years implementing AI/ML solutions in Azure
• 3+ years delivering enterprise OCR and document intelligence projects
• Experience deploying production-grade GenAI solutions

Technical Skills - Must Have

Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Machine Learning, Python, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, Prompt Engineering, RAG Architecture, Vector Databases, OCR Technologies, Computer Vision, REST APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, Git

OCR Expertise

Invoice Processing, Contract Extraction, Engineering Drawing Analysis, Handwritten Text Recognition, Form Processing, Layout Detection, Table Extraction, Multi-page Document Intelligence, Knowledge Extraction, Entity Recognition

Preferred Skills

Microsoft Copilot Studio, UiPath Document Understanding, ABBYY, OpenCV, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, Neo4j Knowledge Graphs, GraphRAG, Microsoft Fabric, Power Platform

Desired Certifications

Microsoft Certified

Contract Details

Duration: 6 Months

Location: PAN India