Technical Program Head - Kochi

VGreen Technology Solutions (VGreenTEK); Coimbatore District; On-site; INR 3,400,000 - 4,600,000; Full time

Job summary

VGreen Technology Solutions seeks a Technical Program Head for AI, robotics & autonomous systems-based in Kochi, India. The role is permanent with a budget of 40 LPA and requires 15–20 years of experience.

You will lead large, multidisciplinary AI/ML and robotics programs from concept to production, overseeing planning, budgeting, resource management, and governance while collaborating with engineering, product, and executive stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Proven AI/ML, CV, robotics expertise with state-of-the-art models.
• Experience with large-scale model training, evaluation, and production AI.
• Strong leadership, program management, and stakeholder skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale AI/ML, robotics, CV, and autonomous-system programs from concept to production.
• Plan, estimate, budget, and manage resources, risks, and dependencies; drive delivery governance.
• Apply Agile/Scrum/SAFe, manage releases, KPI/OKR governance, and production deployments.
• Manage customers, vendors, partners, and executive stakeholders.
• Ensure schedule, cost, quality, technical maturity, and commitments.

Skills

AI/ML expertise

Deep Learning

Foundation Models

Transformers

CNNs

Multimodal Learning

Reinforcement Learning

Multi-agent Systems

Tools

ROS/ROS2

Autoware

Job description

Technical Program Head - Kochi

Location - Kochi (Work from Office)

Job Type - Permanent

Budget - 40 LPA

Experience - 15 - 20 Years

Required Skills

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

• Strong expertise in AI/ML, Deep Learning, Foundation Models, Transformers, CNNs, multimodal learning, reinforcement learning, and multi-agent systems.
• Experience with large-scale model training, optimization, evaluation, and production-grade AI/ML.
• Strong understanding of Generative AI, representation learning, self-supervised learning, and scalable AI architectures.

Computer Vision & Perception

• Strong expertise in object detection, classification, segmentation, tracking, depth estimation, and real-time image/video analytics.
• Experience with YOLO, Vision Transformers, Faster R-CNN, SSD, SLAM, multi-view vision, 3D perception, and sensor fusion.
• Experience building and deploying robust perception systems for industrial, robotic, or autonomous applications.

Robotics & Autonomous Systems

• Strong experience in autonomous robotic platforms, wheeled/quadrupedal robots, and by-wire/autonomous vehicle architectures.
• Expertise in state estimation, localization, motion planning, low-level control, and hardware-software integration.
• Working knowledge of ROS/ROS2, Autoware, and real-time robotic/autonomous systems.

Program & Delivery Management

• Proven experience managing large-scale, multidisciplinary AI/ML, robotics, computer vision, and autonomous-system programs from concept to production.
• Strong expertise in program planning, estimation, budgeting, resource/capacity planning, risk and dependency management, and delivery governance.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum/SAFe, release management, KPI/OKR governance, quality management, and production deployment.
• Strong customer, vendor, partner, and executive stakeholder management capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to drive multiple complex programs while ensuring schedule, cost, quality, technical maturity, and customer commitments.

Technical & Organizational Leadership

• Proven experience leading large, globally distributed and multidisciplinary engineering organizations.
• Ability to lead Engineering Managers, Architects, Technical Leads, Program Managers, and cross-functional engineering teams.
• Strong architecture review, technical governance, mentoring, decision-making, and executive communication capabilities.

JD - Technical Program Head - AI, Robotics & Autonomous Systems - 2026

AI Infrastructure, Data & Simulation

• Experience designing scalable AI/ML infrastructure, multimodal data pipelines, and model lifecycle/MLOps platforms.
• Strong understanding of Azure/GCP, CI/CD, containerization, orchestration, monitoring, and production AI operations.
• Experience with simulation-based development, scenario generation, validation, and automated regression testing.

Physical AI & Embodied Intelligence

• Expertise in Perception-Decision-Planning-Control architectures for AI systems operating in physical environments.
• Experience with sim-to-real transfer, real-time inference, online adaptation, and safety-aware/fail-operational architectures.
• Strong understanding of AI integration with robotic and autonomous platforms.

Full Stack Development

• Good to have experience in React/Angular, Python/Node.js/Java, REST APIs, microservices and SQL/NoSQL databases.