Lead AI Engineer
Staples India (company site, opens in a new tab)6+ yrsChennaiOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 25–45 LPA
Posted 1d ago
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Job description
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About This Role
- Lead technical direction and deliver end-to-end AI solutions focused on ecommerce search, retrieval, ranking, personalization, and visual discovery across text, image, and multimodal modalities.
- Develop, optimize, and productionize ML models and pipelines including computer vision, vision-language, and GenAI models with measurable business impact.
- Provide hands-on leadership through mentoring, design reviews, technical decision-making, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to improve MLOps/LLMOps practices and engineering velocity.
Minimum Requirements
- 6+ years experience in machine learning, applied science, ML engineering, or applied AI with leadership of complex research-to-production initiatives.
- 2+ years hands-on experience in developing and fine-tuning computer vision models for production or applied research.
- Deep expertise in at least two of: search/information retrieval/ranking, computer vision, or vision-language multimodal models.
- Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, Information Retrieval, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experience operating at senior individual contributor level owning end-to-end AI system delivery from research through production in ecommerce or digital merchandising domains.
- Strong proficiency in modern deep learning, especially transformers, contrastive learning, and experience with production-grade ML systems and distributed pipelines on Kubernetes/AKS.
- Proven technical leadership in setting architecture, mentoring, driving scientific and engineering standards, and influencing cross-functional stakeholders without formal authority.