# Principal Software Development Engineer - AI

We are looking for an experienced Head of AI Center of Excellence to drive the enterprise AI strategy and lead the design and delivery of production-grade AI solutions. The role will focus on building agentic AI systems, accelerating AI experimentation, and delivering pilot-ready PoCs that can be scaled into business solutions. Key Responsibilities : - Lead the AI Center of Excellence and execute the organisation's enterprise AI strategy. - Design, develop, and deploy agentic AI architectures and LLM-based solutions for enterprise use cases. - Lead the development, training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment of ML/DL models. - Drive rapid experimentation and deliver pilot-ready AI PoCs within defined timelines. - Define and implement MLOps practices covering model deployment, monitoring, governance, and lifecycle management. - Lead and mentor AI/ML engineering teams across multiple projects, ensuring quality and timely delivery. - Work with business and technology stakeholders to identify AI opportunities and translate them into scalable technical solutions. - Evaluate and adopt relevant AI/ML frameworks, orchestration platforms, cloud AI services, and emerging tec

- **Id**: 1273153
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ria-advisory-principal-software-development-engineer-ai>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Pune, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-27T12:44:25Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-08-27T12:44:25Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 77
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2397
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence

## Company

- **Id**: 3801588
- **Name**: RIA Advisory
- **Domain**: riaadvisory.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ria-advisory>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 21000
- **Max usd**: 53000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 74

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Hugging Face** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 77

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-26T00:07:01Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 6
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 0.4
- **P active**: 0.549
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 76
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: seen:76, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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