Role: Principal AI Architect

Function: Engineering - AI/ML

Location: Mumbai/Bangalore

Type: Full-time

Industry: AI/ML, Consumer Technology

About Company

The company is building the AI layer for Bharat at India-scale. Backed by partnerships with global tech leaders like Meta and Google, the team is creating AI that serves the entire Indian user base—across languages, contexts, and daily needs. This is AI designed for real adoption, not experiments.

They bring a rare combination of deep India-first AI capability and unmatched India-scale distribution. The focus is a platform-and-product stack that makes AI useful, reliable, and safe for everyday consumers. It's engineered from day one for massive scale—100M+ users early and 1B-ready constraints on latency, cost, reliability, and safety.

Position Overview

You will define the architecture and technical direction for an AI platform serving 100M+ users across India. You'll lead multiple technical teams spanning AI infrastructure, model orchestration, and vector knowledge systems while driving hands-on technical excellence in GenAI solutions. This role offers direct ownership of category-defining consumer AI experiences with real-world impact at unprecedented scale.

Role & Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical architecture for AI orchestration platform serving 100M+ users
• Lead multiple engineering teams across AI infrastructure, model orchestration, and vector systems
• Design and implement distributed AI/ML services with focus on latency, cost, and reliability
• Build hands-on solutions for LLM orchestration, model routing, and multi-agent coordination systems
• Establish technical standards and best practices for GenAI platform development
• Drive architecture decisions for cloud-native AI infrastructure and observability systems
• Own end-to-end GenAI solutions from prototype to production-scale deployment

Must Have Criteria

• 10+ years of experience in AI/ML distributed systems and AI/ML platform engineering
• Hands-on experience building and owning GenAI solutions in production environments
• Deep expertise with AI Agents, LLM orchestration, model routing, LangChain/LlamaIndex, VectorDBs, and RAG implementations
• Strong experience with AI/ML orchestration frameworks and embeddings systems
• Proven leadership experience driving architecture decisions at scale
• Experience with Azure and GCP cloud-native stacks including Kubernetes, Kafka, and Terraform
• Demonstrated ability to build distributed AI/ML services with high reliability

Nice to Have

• Experience building AI platforms for consumer-scale applications (100M+ users)
• Background in multi-modal and multi-lingual AI systems
• Previous experience in startup or high-growth technology environments
• Open source contributions to AI/ML orchestration or infrastructure projects

What We Offer

• Opportunity to build AI infrastructure for 100M+ users across India
• Leadership role in a fast-moving, high-ambition AI team
• Direct impact on category-defining consumer AI experience
• Collaboration with global tech partners like Meta and Google
• Competitive compensation and equity in a high-growth AI company