Senior AI Engineer

About the role

Blend360 is looking for a Senior AI Engineer to lead the design, delivery, and scaling of advanced AI solutions. You will guide a high‑performing team, shape technical standards, and ensure AI systems meet production reliability requirements.

Key responsibilities

• Lead end‑to‑end project delivery with clear governance, stakeholder communication and accountability for outcomes.
• Build and mentor a high‑performing AI engineering team, establishing technical standards and a culture of quality.
• Own proposals and new business initiatives, defining feasibility, risks and trade‑offs for clients.
• Guide the design and delivery of Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, agentic frameworks and LLM‑powered solutions.
• Design and implement scalable inference infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and MLOps/LLMOps lifecycle automation.

Required profile

• 5+ years building and deploying AI solutions in production environments.
• 2+ years of direct team leadership or technical management responsibility.
• Strong communication skills, comfortable with engineers and senior stakeholders.
• Proven hiring and mentoring instincts.

Required skills

• Expert Python proficiency and solid Git practices.
• Cloud experience (AWS, Azure preferred, GCP) with containerisation and orchestration.
• Hands‑on RAG experience: chunking, embeddings, retrieval, reranking, evaluation.
• MLOps/LLMOps tools such as MLflow, Weights & Biases.
• Experience with event‑driven architectures, APIs and microservices.

What we offer

• Learning opportunities: certifications (AWS, Databricks, Snowflake), AI learning paths, Udemy Business.
• Travel to industry conferences and client sites.
• Mentoring and career development programs.
• Flexible working options, company‑provided equipment and celebration rewards.