# Director, Principal Engineer - Applied AI

**Company**: Barclays
**Location**: Pune
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Director, Principal Engineer - Applied AI to drive technical excellence and innovation by leading the design and implementation of robust software solutions, providing mentorship to engineering teams, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and contributing to strategic planning.

The successful candidate will serve as a deep technical expert and hands-on architect responsible for defining technology roadmaps, best practices, and standards for AI/ML adoption across the organization.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Serve as the primary code-level reviewer and hands-on architect for complex AI/ML systems and frameworks.

- Define and enforce technology roadmaps, best practices, strategies, and standards for AI/ML adoption.

- Conduct research on context/prompt engineering techniques to translate successful research into reusable engineering frameworks.

- Architect and maintain robust data pipelines and data processing workflows for model training and model tuning.

- Implement and champion MLOps tools and practices.

- Lead the effort to agentize existing systems by incorporating agentic frameworks/stacks and integrating them via A2A, MCP protocol.

- Partner with cross-functional teams to integrate AI/ML solutions into products and services.

- Mentor and coach junior and senior engineers on advanced AI/ML techniques, best practices, and architecture design.

**Required Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related discipline.

- 12+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Data Science, or Analytics with 5+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering or related fields.

- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing highly scalable, production-grade AI/ML platforms and systems.

- Deep understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs), LLM training & fine tuning.

- Hands-on experience in GenAI and AgenticAI frameworks.

- Expertise in various AI/ML techniques, such as deep learning, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, and large language models.

- Proficiency in Python, R, or other programming languages for data analysis and AI/ML development.

- Experience with DevOps and CI/CD tools and practices.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- R
- Large Language Models
- GenAI
- AgenticAI
- Deep Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Reinforcement Learning
- DevOps
- CI/CD

### Nice to have
- PhD in computer science
- Experience in establishing and enforcing AI/ML best practices
- Knowledge of banking, financial products and services

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