# Senior AI Engineer & Lead

SKO Systems is seeking a hands-on Senior AI Engineer & Lead to establish and lead its AI team. The role involves designing, developing, and deploying production-ready AI/ML and Generative AI solutions across cruise technology products, including passenger processing, identity verification, document processing, digital mustering, and crew scheduling. The ideal candidate will combine strong technical expertise in Python, LLMs, RAG, and Azure AI services with the ability to lead engineers, drive AI adoption across product teams, and translate business requirements into scalable, commercially viable AI solutions. Key Responsibilities: Design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI/ML and LLM-based applications. Build RAG pipelines, AI agents, intelligent assistants, and document-processing solutions. Integrate AI capabilities with existing .NET backend services, Angular web applications, and Android mobile applications through REST APIs. Leverage Azure AI services to build scalable and reliable AI solutions. Define AI architecture, evaluation frameworks, and performance metrics for accuracy, latency, reliability, and cost. Drive AI strategy and roadmap in alignment with product and

- **Id**: 3943683
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sko-systems-senior-ai-engineer-lead>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Pune, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-08T17:35:00Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T17:35:00Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3662
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4526817
- **Name**: SKO Systems
- **Domain**: skosystems.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sko-systems>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **.NET** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Angular** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **MS SQL** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Semantic Kernel** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: yes
- **Edge AI** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **LiteRT** — Optional: yes
- **ML Kit** — Optional: yes
- **ONNX Runtime** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-08T17:35:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: seen:2, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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