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We enhance business development and enterprise solutions to prepare them for a digital future. With a diverse and talented team present in more than 30 countries, we are strategic partners to leading global companies in their business process transformation.\nWe are seeking a Lead AI Engineer who shares our passion for innovation and transformation. This role is critical in building advanced AI-driven solutions that enable our business partners to evolve and meet the growing demand for personalized, intelligent digital experiences.\nKey Responsibilities\nAI & Agent System Engineering\nMulti-Agent Orchestration: Build and refine the AI CFO super-agent, specialist sub-agents, intent classification pipelines, tool routing logic, and session memory.\n\nDeterministic Policy Enforcement: Build and maintain the Tool Gateway layer to validate all LLM-generated actions against strict banking policies, ensuring zero hallucinated transactions.\n\nRAG & Guardrails: Engineer end-to-end RAG pipelines (ingestion, vector indexing, retrieval optimization). 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We will bring businesses and consumers together through AI technology and creativity, driving digital transformation to impact the world positively.\nWe may use AI and machine learning technologies in our recruitment process. Compensation is determined based on skills, qualifications, experience, and location. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a comprehensive benefits package. 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