Principal Technical consultant-AI

Thinkahead
Gurugram +1 more

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior AI professionals who build and deploy GenAI services, with a focus on collaboration and cross-cutting technical decisions in a diverse, inclusive environment in Gurugram.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with advanced quantitative degrees and 5+ years in ML/deep learning deployment
    — “Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
  • Experienced engineers fluent in orchestration frameworks and LLM integration patterns
    — “Build agentic and multi-step workflows using orchestration frameworks and platform patterns (e.g., LangGraph, AgentCore, LangChain).
  • Individuals who thrive in translating business requirements into production-ready AI workflows
    — “Partner with product managers, business stakeholders, and UX to turn problem statements into concrete workflows.

Things to consider

  • Must align with India-based work arrangements and local employment benefits structure
    — “India Employment Benefits include: Comprehensive health insurance...
  • Requires adherence to strict platform and security governance protocols
    — “Operate within established platform, security, and governance guardrails...

How to stand out

  • Emphasize proactive risk management in deployment lifecycle documentation
    — “surface risks, blockers, and dependencies early
  • Showcase experience with AI tooling like Glean, Devin, or Claude in project workflows
    — “a high adopter of AI tools (e.g., Glean, Devin, Windsurf, Claude)
  • Highlight ownership of end-to-end solution delivery in project examples
    — “Own the hands-on delivery of AI solutions end-to-end: build, test, integrate, deploy, and ship
  • Demonstrate expertise in LLM observability stacks (Langfuse, LangSmith)
    — “Set up the observability... through an LLM observability stack (e.g., Langfuse, LangSmith)
  • Quantify impact of model drift detection and retraining implementations
    — “Experience with the machine learning lifecycle, including model deployment, monitoring, drift detection/retraining
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Principal

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What success looks like

  • Build agentic and multi-step workflows
  • Operate within established platform guardrails
  • Support and guide junior engineers
Typical background
Experience in AI and GenAI engineering

Skills & requirements

Required

AI IntegrationPythonGenaiLlmsAgentic WorkflowsObservabilityPlatform Standards

Preferred

LanggraphLangchainLangfuseLangsmith

Stack & domain

PythonLlmsGenaiLanggraphLangchainLangfuseLangsmithDeepevalRagasCollaborationProblem-solvingTeamworkCommunicationAdaptabilityAICloud InfrastructureAutomationAnalyticsSoftware Delivery

About the role

Original posting from Thinkahead via Lever

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. 

We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD. 

Roles and Responsibilities::

Solution Delivery & Production Deployment 

Own the hands-on delivery of AI solutions end-to-end: build, test, integrate, deploy, and ship GenAI services and agentic workflows into production. 

Take solutions from prototype to production handling deployment, release, versioning, and rollback, and keep them running reliably once they are live. 

Make sound design and trade-off decisions as you build, and bring the hard, cross-cutting calls into the team’s technical discussions contributing to the architecture, not just consuming it. 

Produce and maintain your own estimates, task breakdowns, and delivery status; surface risks, blockers, and dependencies early. 

GenAI Engineering & Implementation 

Design, implement, and maintain Python-based services and workflows that integrate LLMs and GenAI capabilities with client systems and applications. 

Build agentic and multi-step workflows using orchestration frameworks and platform patterns (e.g., LangGraph, AgentCore, LangChain). 

Develop robust tooling and APIs for agents, with clear input/output schemas, error contracts, versioning, and observability hooks. 

Consume retrieval/RAG and search abstractions to improve grounding and reliability, tuning parameters (top-k, scoring, filters). 

Quality, Observability & Governance 

Own the operational health of the workflows you build: monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, and iterative improvement. 

Set up the observability and evaluation tooling for the solutions you build including tracing, logging, and metrics through an LLM observability stack (e.g., Langfuse, LangSmith), and quality, regression, and safety checks through evaluation frameworks (e.g., DeepEval, Ragas). 

Operate within established platform, security, and governance guardrails (RBAC, data access boundaries, PII handling, logging, audit) instead of building one-off mechanisms. 

Collaboration & Enablement 

Partner with product managers, business stakeholders, and UX to turn problem statements and evaluation criteria into concrete, production-ready workflows. 

Participate actively in design reviews, code reviews, and architecture discussions, keeping solutions maintainable, observable, and aligned to platform standards. 

Support and guide junior engineers and consultants on the team through code review and pairing. 

Contribute to internal enablement (playbooks, examples, reusable patterns) and act as a high adopter of AI tools (e.g., Glean, Devin, Windsurf, Claude) to accelerate design, development, testing, and documentation. 

Qualifications::

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.

Minimum of 5 years of experience in a data science-related role, with a focus on machine learning and deep learning.

Strong Python coding skills with an emphasis on writing efficient, scalable, and maintainable code.

Experience with developing and training custom deep learning models using TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn.

Hands-on experience with Jupyter Notebooks, Azure Machine Learning Studio, Azure OpenAI, AWS SageMaker, nVidia AI Enterprise & DGX platforms

Hands-on experience with leading open source and major model providers such as LLama, Anthropic's Claude, Open AI. Etc.

Solid understanding of transformer architectures, attention mechanisms, and other advanced deep learning concepts.

Knowledge of generative AI concepts, including fine-tuning, transfer learning, and RAG methods.

Experience with the machine learning lifecycle, including model deployment, monitoring, drift detection/retraining, and canary testing.

Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to present complex technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Experience in pre-sales activities, including project scoping, estimation, and solution design.

Why AHEAD:

Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.

We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.

India Employment Benefits include: 

Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees, with options to extend coverage to dependents

Paid time off and company holidays, along with additional leave benefits as per policy

Flexible work arrangements, supporting work-life balance

Learning and development opportunities to support continuous growth and upskilling

Employee wellness initiatives and programs focused on physical and mental well-being

Retirement and statutory benefits in line with India regulations

Inclusive and people-first culture, with a strong focus on collaboration and ownership

Source: Thinkahead careers (Lever)

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