Team Leader – NLP OCR Engineering

Chennai - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Experience Required: 7-10years

Posted on: 6 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

We are seeking a Team Leader NLP to lead a cross-functional engineering team working on OCR NLP AI/ML pipelines backend systems and cloud infrastructure. This role blends technical leadership architecture oversight mentoring and delivery ownership for mission-critical document processing and AI-driven platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead and mentor a team working on OCR NLP backend and cloud components
Plan sprints allocate resources and ensure timely high-quality deliveries
Drive coding standards architecture best practices and documentation
Own and enhance OCR and document processing pipelines using Tesseract and OpenCV
Guide AI/ML and NLP workflows including LLM-based classification and extraction
Oversee deployment and reliability of backend services and APIs
Manage cloud infrastructure on GCP including compute scaling and monitoring
Ensure system reliability performance optimization and production stability
Collaborate closely with QA DevOps product and data teams

Requirements

7 years of software engineering experience
Minimum 2 years in a technical lead or team leadership role
Strong expertise in Python and Flask-based backend systems
Hands-on knowledge of OCR systems and document processing pipelines
Deep understanding of NLP embeddings vectorization and LLM deployment
Experience managing systems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Knowledge of MongoDB RabbitMQ and distributed messaging systems
Strong Linux (Ubuntu) administration and troubleshooting skills
Exposure to GPU environments CUDA and PyTorch is an advantage
Excellent communication stakeholder management and delivery ownership skills

Required Skills:

Python Architecture Software Design Patterns Django Flask JavaScript (ES6) React MongoDB Elasticsearch Microservices Redis Kafka SQS MQ Big Data Hadoop Docker Kubernetes CI/CD AWS Azure GCP Technical Leadership Client Interaction