Principal AI Engineer — ML / MLOps Platform Architect
BengaluruFull-time12–22 yrsPosted over a month ago
Leadership data science role at Ecolab in Bengaluru. Needs 12+ years and an M.Sc, B.Tech or B.E..
About the role
The Principal Machine Learning Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for architecting, building, and operationalizing enterprise-scale AI, Generative AI, and Agentic AI capabilities across Databricks, Azure AI Foundry, and cloud-native AI platforms. This role will lead the strategy, architecture, and implementation of foundation models, custom models, AI platform services, ModelOps, and Agentic AI frameworks that power enterprise AI solutions.
What you'll do
- Own the enterprise strategy for foundation models, frontier models, and custom enterprise models
- Evaluate, benchmark, onboard, and operationalize leading AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure AI Foundry, Databricks Mosaic AI, and open-source ecosystems
- Define model selection and deployment strategies based on performance, cost, security, latency, and business requirements
- Establish enterprise standards for model consumption and governance
- Model Lifecycle Management (ModelOps)
What you need
- Machine learning
- MLOps
- LLMs
- Databricks
- Prompt engineering
- Azure
Good to have
- Terraform