Lead AI Engineer
ChennaiFull-time6–8 yrsPosted 3 weeks ago
Senior data science role at Staples India in Chennai. Needs 6–8 years and a PhD, M.Tech or MCA.
About the role
We are hiring a Lead AI Engineer / Lead Applied Scientist (G4) to provide hands-on technical leadership for AI systems powering ecommerce search, retrieval, ranking, personalization, and visual discovery. This is a senior individual-contributor role centered on research, rapid experimentation, production engineering, and measurable business impact across text, image, and multimodal experiences.
What you'll do
- Product matching and entity resolution
- Semantic, visual, and multimodal retrieval
- Architect and optimize multi-stage retrieval and ranking pipelines across text, image, and fused multimodal representations
- Develop, fine-tune, and evaluate computer vision, vision-language, and multimodal models, including image/text encoders, multimodal embeddings
- Create rigorous offline evaluation, benchmarking, error analysis, and online experimentation frameworks
What you need
- Machine learning
- Computer vision
- Python
- Deep learning
- Databricks
- PyTorch
Good to have
- Kubernetes
- NLP
- IPR
- LLMs
- MLOps