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You are an engineer and client-advisor - you turn solution designs into working, production-grade GenAI / Agentic AI workflows, and you take them all the way into production - deployed, running, and reliable in live client environments.\nYou will collaborate with clients and interdisciplinary teams, which includes engineers, product owners, domain experts to understand real business needs and solve complex challenges across industries. You will work alongside senior consultants and architects, contribute to the technical direction and own delivery.\nRoles and Responsibilities:\nSolution Delivery & Production Deployment\nOwn the hands-on delivery of AI solutions end-to-end: build, test, integrate, deploy, and ship GenAI services and agentic workflows into production.\n\nTake solutions from prototype to production handling deployment, release, versioning, and rollback, and keep them running reliably once they are live.\n\nMake 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.\n\nProduce and maintain your own estimates, task breakdowns, and delivery status; surface risks, blockers, and dependencies early.\n\nGenAI Engineering & Implementation\nDesign, implement, and maintain Python-based services and workflows that integrate LLMs and GenAI capabilities with client systems and applications.\n\nBuild agentic and multi-step workflows using orchestration frameworks and platform patterns (e.g., LangGraph, AgentCore, LangChain).\n\nDevelop robust tooling and APIs for agents, with clear input/output schemas, error contracts, versioning, and observability hooks.\n\nConsume retrieval/RAG and search abstractions to improve grounding and reliability, tuning parameters (top-k, scoring, filters).\n\nQuality, Observability & Governance\nOwn the operational health of the workflows you build: monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, and iterative improvement.\n\nSet 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).\n\nOperate within established platform, security, and governance guardrails (RBAC, data access boundaries, PII handling, logging, audit) instead of building one-off mechanisms.\n\nCollaboration & Enablement\nPartner with product managers, business stakeholders, and UX to turn problem statements and evaluation criteria into concrete, production-ready workflows.\n\nParticipate actively in design reviews, code reviews, and architecture discussions, keeping solutions maintainable, observable, and aligned to platform standards.\n\nSupport and guide junior engineers and consultants on the team through code review and pairing.\n\nContribute 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.\n\nQualifications:\nBachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.\nMinimum of 5 years of experience in a data science-related role, with a focus on machine learning and deep learning.\nStrong Python coding skills with an emphasis on writing efficient, scalable, and maintainable code.\nExperience with developing and training custom deep learning models using TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn.\nHands-on experience with Jupyter Notebooks, Azure Machine Learning Studio, Azure OpenAI, AWS SageMaker, nVidia AI Enterprise & DGX platforms\nHands-on experience with leading open source and major model providers such as LLama, Anthropic's Claude, Open AI. Etc.\nSolid understanding of transformer architectures, attention mechanisms, and other advanced deep learning concepts.\nKnowledge of generative AI concepts, including fine-tuning, transfer learning, and RAG methods.\nExperience with the machine learning lifecycle, including model deployment, monitoring, drift detection/retraining, and canary testing.\nStrong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to present complex technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.\nExperience in pre-sales activities, including project scoping, estimation, and solution design.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4554,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["IT Consulting & Digital Transformation","Managed IT Services (MSP)","AI Consulting & Integration","Cloud Consulting & Migration"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-05T14:52:18Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":34,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.565,"p_room":0.6,"age_days":66,"expected_fill_days":78,"reasons":["conf:0","stale_co","velocity","win:late","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-27T05:46:45Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ahead-principal-technical-consultant-ai","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ahead-principal-technical-consultant-ai.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-28T05:50:26Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":7679,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-29T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3614},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3614"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fahead-principal-technical-consultant-ai"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fahead-principal-technical-consultant-ai"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fahead-principal-technical-consultant-ai"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/ahead-principal-technical-consultant-ai\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fahead-principal-technical-consultant-ai"}]}