Lead AI Engineer

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

• 6–8 years in data science & ai
• Machine learning
• Computer vision
• Python
• Deep learning
• Databricks
• PyTorch
• PhD or M.Tech or MCA or M.Sc

Good to have

• Kubernetes
• NLP
• IPR
• LLMs
• MLOps