Senior Associate - AI Platform Lead Engineer
Pune, MumbaiFull-timeSenior levelPosted 3 weeks ago
Senior data science role at TIAA in Pune and Mumbai. Needs a degree.
About the role
The Senior Associate, AI Platform Lead Engineer (Foundation Engineering) will design, build, and optimize the core infrastructure and tooling powering AI agent systems and LLM/SLM applications within the AI Center of Excellence. This individual works at the intersection of AI engineering and backend systems design, building scalable, production-grade foundations for enterprise AI initiatives.
What you'll do
- Design and develop AI agent frameworks and orchestration layers supporting enterprise use cases
- Apply LLM optimization techniques (quantization, distillation, prompt/context optimization, caching) to improve latency, cost, and performance
- Lead fine-tuning efforts for small language models (SLMs) tailored to domain-specific use cases
- Architect and implement backend services and APIs supporting AI model integration and deployment
- Design and deploy AI infrastructure and services on AWS/cloud platforms
What you need
- LLMs
- Python
- AWS
- Prompt engineering
- Microservices
Good to have
- Machine learning