Sr. AI & Innovation Engineer

Role Overview

Intertec Systems is seeking a visionary and execution-focused AI Practice Lead to head our AI initiatives across all lines of businessDigital Managed Services Cloud EAM Cybersecurity and Microsoft solutions.

This role will own the charter to define build and scale innovative AI use cases leveraging Machine Learning (ML) Computer Vision Agentic AI and Gen AI applications for:

• Client solutions (presales PoCs proposals)
• Internal business transformation
• Product roadmap acceleration

The ideal candidate will be an expert hands-on AI engineer who can lead with both strategy and execution. This individual will lead the AI Center of Excellence (CoE) and work closely with Business Units Technology Teams and Clients.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Leadership

• Define and execute the vision and roadmap for AI adoption at Intertec across functions
• Lead the AI CoE and drive cross-functional collaboration with presales delivery product and marketing teams
• Evaluate and prioritize AI use cases based on business impact and feasibility

Solution Development & Presales

• Partner with sales and account teams to ideate and propose AI solutions in RFPs and client engagements
• Build PoCs reference architectures and solution accelerators using ML Computer Vision NLP and Generative AI
• Identify AI opportunities with business outcomes across verticals like Government Healthcare Utilities BFSI and Real Estate

Use Case Design & Development

• Own delivery of all active and upcoming AI use cases across Intertecs client and internal platforms
• Drive implementation of Agentic AI (LLM-based task automation) multi-agent frameworks (e.g. CrewAI LangGraph) and intelligent workflows

Innovation & R&D

• Evaluate emerging AI technologies LLMs vector databases and open-source models for product or customer requirements
• Pilot AI use cases internally (finance automation talent intelligence project risk prediction etc.)
• Scale successfully piloted AI solutions within the organization
• Keep the organization at the forefront of GenAI multi-modal AI and enterprise AI trends
• Create a catalogue of resuable AI assets to be monetized by the company

Governance & Enablement

• Define best practices MLOps standards data governance frameworks
• Train and upskill teams in AI tooling and architecture
• Ensure responsible AI practices ethical design and regulatory compliance

Required Skills & Experience

Must-Have Skills

• 7 years in technology or consulting with 4 years in AI/ML
• Strong experience in AI presales and solution architecture (client-facing)
• Expert-level hands-on coding and prototyping experience
• Hands-on proficiency in:
• ML frameworks (TensorFlow PyTorch scikit-learn)
• Computer Vision (YOLO OpenCV segmentation models)
• Agentic AI tools (LangChain CrewAI AutoGen RAG LlamaIndex)
• Proven success building AI/ML PoCs solutions or products from scratch
• Familiar with vector databases RAG architecture prompt engineering and LLM orchestration
• Knowledge of MLOps and deployment pipelines (MLflow Kubeflow Azure ML Sagemaker)
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong understanding of cloud and infrastructure requirements for AI workloads including:
• GPU types and capacity planning (e.g. A100 H100 T4)
• AI-optimized storage and high-throughput systems
• Deployment environments (Docker Kubernetes VM instances)
• Cost/performance analysis across Azure AWS GCP
• MLOps tools and scalable model deployment architectures

Preferred/Bonus

• Experience leading AI practices in mid-sized or regional IT services companies
• Exposure to AI compliance and Responsible AI frameworks

Tools & Technologies

ML & CV: PyTorch TensorFlow scikit-learn OpenCV YOLO Detectron2

LLMs & Agents: OpenAI Anthropic LangChain CrewAI LlamaIndex Haystack

Deployment: Azure AI AWS Sagemaker Vertex AI Docker Kubernetes

Data & Ops: MLflow Airflow Hugging Face Weights & Biases

Vector DBs: FAISS Pinecone Chroma Qdrant

What Youll Influence

• Shape the AI GTM strategy for Intertec
• Elevate client conversations from solutioning to innovation
• Help Intertec become an AI-first systems integrator