LeadConsultant-AIApplicationEngineering

**Job Title:** Lead Consultant - AI Application Engineering **Career Level:** E **Location:** Bangalore ## ## Introduction to role: Are you ready to turn modern AI into reliable, scalable applications that help accelerate the discovery and delivery of life-changing medicines? Do you thrive at the intersection of hands-on engineering, GenAI, and product leadership—translating ideas into tools that scientists and business teams use every day? In this role, you will lead full-stack delivery of AI-enabled products from architecture to production, applying modern engineering practices to unlock data, automate decisions, and create seamless user experiences. You will guide multi-functional squads, shape technical direction, and ship secure, high-quality solutions that scale across a global enterprise. With strong sponsorship and access to sophisticated platforms, you will set the pace for how AI is designed, built, and embraced. In addition, you will be responsible for ensuring alignment of AI initiatives with business strategy, driving operational excellence, and leading high-performing teams to deliver measurable outcomes at scale. ## ## Accountabilities: * Product Architecture and Strategy * Define technical direction for AI applications, making pragmatic build-versus-buy choices. * Full-Stack Delivery: Lead end-to-end engineering across front-end, back-end, APIs, data layers, and infrastructure to deliver resilient, observable, and secure applications. * Machine Learning Pipelines: Operationalize models with robust data ingestion, feature stores, evaluation, and monitoring to ensure accuracy, reliability, and drift management. * Generative AI Integration: Apply LLMs and related techniques (prompting, fine-tuning, retrieval) to create new user experiences and automate knowledge-heavy workflows responsibly. * Scalable Systems: Design for performance and elasticity, optimizing cost and latency while ensuring compliance, privacy, and safe use of AI. * Teamwork and Leaders