{"id":2764990,"url":"https://alion.io/job/cyient-lead-ai-engineer","title":"Lead AI Engineer","company":{"id":59344,"name":"Cyient","domain":"cyient.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/cyient","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Zwayam","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":83,"open_postings":15,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.667,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":44,"computed_at":"2026-10-26T05:57:25Z"}},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Hyderabad, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":24000,"max_usd":63000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":47},"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"AutoGen","optional":false},{"name":"BERT","optional":false},{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"Claude","optional":false},{"name":"CNN","optional":false},{"name":"CrewAI","optional":false},{"name":"Diffusion Models","optional":false},{"name":"Embeddings","optional":false},{"name":"Human-in-the-Loop","optional":false},{"name":"Interpretability","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"LangGraph","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Multimodal AI","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"RAG","optional":false},{"name":"Transformers","optional":false},{"name":"LangChain","optional":true},{"name":"PyTorch","optional":true},{"name":"Scikit-learn","optional":true},{"name":"TensorFlow","optional":true},{"name":"TensorFlow C++","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-14T13:33:06Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-17","last_verified_at":"2026-10-26T09:19:56Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":72,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":72},"description":"Lead the design and implementation of representation learning systems, embedding models, vector search solutions, and retrieval-augmented architectures.\nDefine technical architecture for AI-first platforms utilizing foundation models, large language models, autonomous agents, and classical machine learning techniques.\nEstablish best practices for agentic AI systems including orchestration, memory management, tool integration, confidence calibration, and human-in-the-loop workflows.\nArchitect multimodal AI solutions that combine imagery, text, and structured data for detection, classification, reasoning, and decision support.\nEvaluate emerging AI technologies and guide adoption decisions across the organization.\nTranslate complex business and technical challenges into scalable, explainable, responsible AI solutions.\nDefine success metrics and partner with leadership to ensure measurable business impact.\nMentor engineers and data scientists, helping elevate technical excellence across the team.\nContribute to innovation through intellectual property development, research publications, and technical thought leadership.\nWho you are\n8+ years of relevant experience, including demonstrated hands on technical lead .\nProven track record of leading the design and delivery of production ML systems end to end, and setting technical direction that other engineers build on.\nDeep expertise in representation learning and embeddings, vector similarity search, and retrieval-augmented approaches - able to architect the foundation-model core, not just contribute to it.\nStrong command of ML fundamentals, including regression, classification, forecasting, and model interpretability.\nHands-on experience with deep learning architectures such as CNN, LSTM, GRU, GANs, BERT, Diffusion Models, and Transformers.\nSubstantial experience with LLMs (e.g., GPT-3/4, Claude, Mistral) and architecting agent-based solutions using frameworks like LangGraph, CrewAI, or AutoGen.\nMultimodal / vision-language model experience - jointly encoding imagery with text or structured data - at an architectural level.\nProficiency in Python; familiarity with other programming languages like C++ or Java is a plus.\nFluency with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, and experience working with large datasets and distributed systems.\nA track record of making independent architectural decisions, defending them with evidence, and holding a high measurement bar for whether systems actually work.\nDemonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and lead cross-functional, agile teams.\nExcellent problem-solving and communication skills, including the ability to represent complex technical work to senior stakeholders.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2720,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["IT Consulting & Digital Transformation","Engineering Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-17T03:35:51Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":19,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.517,"p_room":0.36,"age_days":72,"expected_fill_days":44,"reasons":["conf:0","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-26T05:57:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/cyient-lead-ai-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/cyient-lead-ai-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-26T09:55:48Z","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":13417,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-27T00:00:00Z"}},"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":59344},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=59344"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcyient-lead-ai-engineer"},{"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%2Fcyient-lead-ai-engineer"},{"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%2Fcyient-lead-ai-engineer"},{"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/cyient-lead-ai-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcyient-lead-ai-engineer"}]}