Head of AI Engineering, India — Enterprise AI at Scale

GE Vernova; United States; On-site; USD 42,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance provided

Job summary

GE Vernova's AI Foundry hosts an India AI Engineering organization in Bengaluru. You will lead the engineers, own hiring, and deliver production AI applications, agents, and services at enterprise scale.

Expect 25–30% hands-on engineering work, including architecture reviews, incidents, and prototyping before industrialization. You will grow the team to meet global hiring plans, mentor staff toward principal roles, and drive reusable AI capabilities while maintaining Responsible AI and security

Qualifications

• Masters degree in CS/AI/engineering or related field from an accredited university.
• 15 years of software, platform or AI engineering experience; 7 years leading engineering teams.
• 2 years leading teams delivering LLM, RAG or agentic applications into production.
• Hands-on background with production systems and ability to review code and designs.
• Strong Python and modern software practices (CI/CD, testing).
• Deep knowledge of LLM app architecture: RAG, agents, tool calling, evaluation.
• Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes and distributed systems.
• Track record of hiring, developing and retaining engineers across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Lead ~20 engineers, owning hiring, performance, development and delivery.
• Grow India AI Foundry headcount to meet global hiring plans.
• Interview senior candidates personally.
• Develop staff and senior staff into technical leaders and managers.
• Define engineering standards and enforce reviews and gates.
• Participate in architecture reviews and critical incident leadership.
• Drive reusable AI products and extend shared services across teams.

Skills

Leadership

Hiring & mentoring

Python

LLM architecture

RAG & agents

CI/CD & testing

Distributed systems

Communication across time zones

Hands-on engineering

Code review

Education

Master's Degree in Computer Science / AI Engineering / Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

GE Vernova's AI Foundry hosts an India AI Engineering organization in Bengaluru. You will lead the engineers, own hiring, and deliver production AI applications, agents, and services at enterprise scale.

Expect 25–30% hands-on engineering work, including architecture reviews, incidents, and prototyping before industrialization. You will grow the team to meet global hiring plans, mentor staff toward principal roles, and drive reusable AI capabilities while maintaining Responsible AI and security