Sr. AI Engineering Manager
Job Summary
Position Title:Sr. AI Engineering Manager
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID:44097
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of AI initiatives from ideation and prototyping through deployment operationalization and production scaling.
- Drive the transformation of manual and process-intensive workflows into intelligent automated AI-enabled solutions with measurable business impact.
- Design engineer and deploy reusable foundational AI capabilities including containerized models adaptation workflows optimization frameworks and reference architectures.
- Establish and enforce technical standards across machine learning generative AI multimodal systems and production software engineering practices.
- Guide the transition of AI research and prototypes into secure scalable reproducible and enterprise-ready solutions.
- Provide architectural oversight for AI applications including context management model integration tool orchestration Model Context Protocol (MCP) implementations and secure data handling.
- Define and manage model evaluation frameworks quality benchmarks validation processes data quality standards and responsible AI guardrails.
- Partner with platform infrastructure and data engineering teams to optimize compute resources data pipelines deployment automation experiment tracking and observability platforms.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to business stakeholders IT teams and leadership to identify prioritize and deliver high-value AI use cases.
- Lead mentor and develop engineers and applied scientists while fostering a culture of innovation accountability collaboration and operational excellence.
- Bachelors Masters or PhD in Computer Science Electrical Engineering Machine Learning Applied Mathematics Physics or a related technical discipline.
- 13-18 years of experience within software engineering enterprise technology or IT organizations.
- 6-7 years of hands-on experience in software engineering systems architecture or enterprise application development.
- 7 years of dedicated AI/ML engineering experience including significant experience deploying Generative AI solutions in production environments.
- Proven leadership experience managing and scaling engineering teams focused on AI machine learning foundation models multimodal systems or advanced analytics.
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes container orchestration distributed systems and GPU infrastructure management.
- Hands-on experience with model serving and inference platforms such as Triton Inference Server vLLM TGI or similar technologies.
- Experience building and orchestrating enterprise AI and agentic workflows using frameworks such as LangChain LangGraph LlamaIndex AutoGen or related platforms.
- Strong understanding of MLOps practices experiment tracking model registries CI/CD pipelines deployment automation and AI observability tools including MLflow Weights & Biases Prometheus Grafana Arize or TruLens.
- Experience deploying AI solutions across one or more modalities including text image video speech audio or multimodal systems.
- Strong knowledge of secure software development enterprise architecture middleware platforms and infrastructure operations.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical concepts trade-offs and risks to both technical and executive audiences.
- Proven track record of balancing business value engineering quality cost optimization and enterprise scalability.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity resilience and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race religion color national origin sex age veteran status disability or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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Job Family:Information Technology
Location(s): IN - India : Haryana : Gurgaon
Company:McCain Foods(India) P Ltd
Required Experience:
Manager
About Company
McCain Foods | Our purpose - 'Celebrating real connections through delicious, planet-friendly food'. We supply delicious frozen French fries, potato specialties, and appetizers to retail and foodservice customers around the globe.