Job Description

We're looking for a

Lead Al Engineer

This role is Office Based, Hyderabad Office

Job Title: Lead AI Engineer

Location: Hyderabad

About the
Role:

We are seeking an experienced Lead AI Engineer
to architect, develop, and scale our enterprise AI infrastructure and content
processing pipelines. You will lead the technical design of AI systems,
focusing on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks, LLM gateways, and
intelligent agentic workflows. As a technical leader, you will ensure our AI
data pipelines are robust, highly structured, and seamlessly integrated into
our AWS cloud ecosystem.

In this role you will...

• AI
  Architecture & Strategy: Lead the architectural oversight and
  technical direction for content ingestion and enrichment pipelines,
  ensuring scalable and efficient AI integrations.
• RAG
  & LLM Integration: Design, deploy, and optimize advanced
  Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks and centralized LLM
  gateways.
• Agentic
  Workflows: Build and orchestrate multi-agent
  platforms and workflows using modern AI integration frameworks.
• Protocol
  Implementation: Drive the implementation of Model
  Context Protocol (MCP) to standardize and streamline interactions between
  foundation models and enterprise backend systems.
• Data
  Pipeline Engineering: Architect highly reliable LLM generation
  pipelines, enforcing strict structured JSON outputs to guarantee schema
  validation and application parsing stability.
• Technical
  Leadership & System Design: Mentor engineering teams, apply
  best-in-class software design patterns, and guide infrastructure
  deployment planning across cloud environments.

You've
got what it takes if you have…

• Experience: 5-8
  years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track
  record of designing and deploying enterprise-grade systems and AI
  platforms.
• Programming
  & Frameworks (Mandatory): Deep, hands-on expertise in Java and the Spring / Spring Boot framework.
• Good working knowledge of Python is also required for AI/ML integrations and scripting.
• Database
  Expertise (Mandatory): Strong knowledge of both relational
  databases (RDBMS such as PostgreSQL or MySQL) and NoSQL databases,
  specifically MongoDB.
• Design
  Patterns (Mandatory): Extensive knowledge of object-oriented
  design, architectural design patterns, and enterprise integration patterns
  for building scalable, decoupled systems.
• Cloud
  Infrastructure (Mandatory): Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services, including the deployment, scaling, and management of
  containerized applications and data pipelines.
• AI/ML
  Expertise: Practical experience building scalable
  RAG applications, vector search optimizations, and LLM orchestration
  layers.
• Data
  Engineering: Proven ability to build resilient data
  ingestion workflows with a strong emphasis on JSON-based structured data
  validation over legacy text formats.

Good to have skills...

• Familiarity
  with enterprise AI toolkits (such as Google ADK).
• Experience
  managing regional infrastructure rollouts and navigating model
  availability constraints across different deployment stages.

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Our Culture:

Spark Greatness. Shatter Boundaries. Share Success. Are you ready? Because here, right now – is where the future of work is happening. Where curious disruptors and change innovators like you are helping communities and customers enable everyone – anywhere – to learn, grow and advance. To be better tomorrow than they are today.

Who We Are:

Cornerstone powers the potential of organizations and their people to thrive in a changing world. Cornerstone Galaxy, the complete AI-powered workforce agility platform, meets organizations where they are. With Galaxy, organizations can identify skills gaps and development opportunities, retain and engage top talent, and provide multimodal learning experiences to meet the diverse needs of the modern workforce. More than 7,000 organizations and 100 million+ users in 180+ countries and in nearly 50 languages use Cornerstone Galaxy to build high-performing, future-ready organizations and people today.

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