Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science, Data/AI, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 7–12+ years in solution architecture, ML/AI engineering, or platform engineering, with 2–4+ years hands on GenAI/LLM solutions.
- Proven delivery of production GenAI systems (RAG, tool use, agents) at enterprise scale.
- Strong knowledge of:
o LLMs & Embeddings: model families, context management, fine tuning/adapter methods, prompt engineering.
o Agentic AI: planners, executors, memory, tool routing, multi-agent collaboration, safety and oversight.
o Data & Infra: vector DBs (CosmosDB, Pinecone, Redis, PgVector, Azure AI Search), data lakes/warehouses, microservices, APIs, containers (Docker/K8s), serverless.
o Cloud: Azure, AWS, or GCP—identity, networking, secrets, observability, and cost control.
o MLOps/LLOps: model/prompt versioning, A/B testing, monitoring, evaluation pipelines.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and consultative problem solving skills.
Preferred (Nice to Have)
- Experience with Semantic Kernel, LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangGraph or custom orchestration libraries.
- Evaluation & Safety tooling: prompt injection detectors, redaction, policy engines.
- Experience with domain compliance (financial services, telco, healthcare, public sector).
- Hands-on with vectorization strategies, multilingual retrieval, and knowledge graph augmentation.
- GenAI UX experience: conversational design, guardrails in UI, user feedback instrumentation.
- Publications, patents, or OSS contributions in GenAI/agent systems.
Core Skills Matrix
Technical
- LLMs (open & closed source), embeddings, RAG, multi-agent design, tool calling.
- Python/TypeScript; API design; orchestration; CI/CD; cloud services; observability.
- Vector databases, chunking strategies, metadata & relevance tuning.
- Security & Responsible AI: content moderation, PII handling, policy controls.
Consulting & Leadership
- Use case discovery, value cases, ROI/TCO modeling.