Job Description

Senior Manager - Engineering/AI

Department: IT

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Pune

Reporting To: Abhinav Gupta

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional generative AI-focused software development team.
• Integrate LLM APIs into existing platforms to enhance user interactions, decision-making and automation capabilities.
• Enhance applications with agentic AI capabilities to enable autonomous decision-making and improve business workflows.
• Work collaboratively across product, data science and engineering teams to develop AI-driven features and optimise system performance.
• Utilise generative AI tools, including coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, to accelerate development processes.
• Deploy and manage applications on cloud platforms, ensuring scalability, security and reliability.
• Stay current with advancements in LLMs, generative AI and cloud technologies, and apply relevant innovations to improve platform capability and performance.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Proficiency in Python, including frameworks such as LangChain, .NET (C#) and TypeScript, including React.
• Experience with web frameworks such as Node.js.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS, including Azure AI Foundry or AWS Bedrock.
• Experience integrating LLMs and agentic AI systems into web applications, with a focus on automation and human-in-the-loop decision-making.
• Experience deploying scalable AI-driven web applications in cloud environments. Familiarity with integrating structured and unstructured data for knowledge bases and retrieval-augmented generation solutions.
• Strong team leadership capability with experience leading engineering teams in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving capability and the ability to troubleshoot AI integration challenges.
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to work effectively across product, engineering and data teams.
• Eagerness to stay current with advancements in generative AI, agentic AI and related technologies.
• Software development or engineering team leadership experience.
• Proven experience developing and deploying scalable web applications.
• Hands-on experience integrating generative AI APIs and AI-driven solutions into applications.
• Solid background in full-stack development.
• Cloud infrastructure management experience is desirable.
• Degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or a related discipline preferred.