Driven since 1817 by the entrepreneurial spirit and thirst for innovation of its founder, the John Cockerill Group develops large-scale technological solutions to meet the needs of our time: facilitating access to
low-carbon energies, enabling sustainable industrial production, preserving natural resources, contributing to greener mobility, enhancing security and installing essential infrastructures.
Its offer to companies, governments and communities consists of services and associated equipment for the sectors of energy, defense, industry, environment, transport and infrastructures.
With more than 8 200 employees, John Cockerill achieved a turnover of € 1.649 billion in 2025 in 27 countries, on 5 continents.
Location - Mumbai, India
John Cockerill is a global engineering group founded in 1817 and headquartered in Seraing, Belgium, delivering large-scale technological equipment across energy, defense, and industry. John Cockerill Energy is executing a 2026–2030 IT, digital and Applied-AI transformation across Cooling, Energy Solutions and Energy Transition, including a shift from experimental agents to industrialized, governed AI products.
Working under the direction of the AI Product Manager, the AI Engineer transforms approved use cases into production-grade AI solutions while ensuring compliance with corporate AI governance, cybersecurity requirements, approved technology standards, and scalability expectations. The role combines AI engineering, software engineering, cloud architecture, prompt engineering, integration development, and MLOps/LLMOps practices.
AI Solution Development
Design and develop AI applications, copilots, and multi-agent systems aligned with approved business requirements. • Build AI-powered assistants using Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Graph, Power Platform and Azure Services. • Develop reusable AI components and shared frameworks. • Translate user stories and functional requirements into working AI solutions.
Design and develop multi-agent systems using approved architecture. • Implement orchestration frameworks, agent collaboration patterns, tool calling, memory management, and human-in-the-loop controls. • Design agent interfaces, workflows, guardrails, and monitoring capabilities. • Participate in architecture reviews and technical governance.
Create, test, optimize, and document prompts. • Evaluate AI model performance. • Develop Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions. • Implement vector search and semantic retrieval capabilities. • Optimize accuracy, latency, and cost.
Integrate AI products with enterprise systems including SAP S/4HANA, JD Edwards, Planview, SharePoint, Teams, Microsoft 365 and engineering platforms. • Design APIs and data pipelines. • Ensure secure handling of enterprise data.
Deploy solutions on approved cloud environments. • Implement CI/CD pipelines. • Configure
monitoring, logging, and alerting. • Support infrastructure automation and environment management.
Establish deployment pipelines for AI products. • Manage AI lifecycle activities: development, testing, validation, deployment, monitoring and retirement. • Monitor token consumption and cloud costs. • Implement model governance and version control.
Ensure compliance with Group AI Policy, Energy AI Governance SOP, cybersecurity standards, data privacy requirements and EU AI Act requirements. • Participate in risk assessments and architecture reviews. • Support audit and compliance activities.
Conduct model testing and validation. • Measure accuracy and business performance. • Execute AI evaluation frameworks. • Document known limitations and mitigation actions.
Maintain technical documentation. • Create architecture diagrams and deployment guides. • Produce support documentation and training materials. • Ensure solutions can be maintained independently of individual developers.
Qualifications & Skills
Education & Experience
Technical & Product Skills AI Engineering & Knowledge Systems
Software Engineering, DevOps & Operations
5.Travel & Work Arrangement
This role requires periodic travel to Europe to work directly with business-line and Group IT stakeholders. The position is based in the Navi Mumbai office, with a maximum of 2 days’ work-from-home per week as per discussion with the reporting manager.
John Cockerill offers you career and development opportunities within its various sectors in a friendly working environment.
Do you want to work for an innovative company that will allow you to take up technical challenges on a daily basis?
We look forward to receiving your application and to meeting you!
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John Cockerill designs, integrates, modernizes and maintains equipment in the domains of energy, defence, steelmaking, the environment and industry in general.
John Cockerill assists its clients throughout the whole of the lifecycle of their equipment, to improve its economic, technical and environmental performance.
The benefits of John Cockerill are numerous: a unique combination of engineering and maintenance expertise and in the management of technical international projects, a vast geographical and technological scope and a capacity of innovation based on the concrete need of its clients.
John Cockerill has an experienced workforce of 8,000 in Europe, Africa, North America, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, New Caledonia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Vietnam.
Proud of its past and aware of its ability to invent the processes of the future, John Cockerill intends to contribute to today's societal challenges and generate sustainable industrial progress for the benefit of its customers, employees, shareholders, surrounding communities and the planet.
