Manager - AI Engineering
ZS (company site, opens in a new tab)10+ yrsBengaluruRemoteDirect career pageEst. 35–60 LPA
Posted 1d ago
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Job description
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About This Role
- Own end-to-end technical architecture, delivery, and evolution of multiple AI-powered backend platforms and services with a focus on GenAI/LLM integration.
- Lead and mentor senior engineers and technical leads while setting engineering standards, ensuring scalable, secure, and production-ready systems.
- Drive delivery outcomes across parallel workstreams, act as primary escalation point, and collaborate cross-functionally with Product, AI/ML, DevOps, Data Engineering, and Consulting teams.
Minimum Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years in technical leadership or engineering management roles.
- Strong backend engineering experience using Python frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask.
- Hands-on experience building, integrating, and scaling GenAI/LLM-based systems, including prompt pipelines and agentic AI workflows.
- Work authorization for intended country of employment; Travel readiness for client-facing responsibilities.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced in leading AI engineering teams developing complex, scalable, and reusable GenAI services in production environments.
- Technically credible leader skilled at balancing hands-on engineering with team development and pragmatic delivery execution.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous contexts, making sound technical and delivery trade-offs, with exposure to consulting or client-facing environments being a plus.