Staff AI Engineer Director
Job Summary
Job Description:
Role Summary
Serve as the technical anchor for Dentsus agentic AI engineering team in DGS. You will lead architecture decisions for multi-agent systems set engineering standards and mentor a growing team of agentic engineers. This is a hands-on leadership role: you write code review code and set the technical direction while the Senior Director handles the VP-level strategy and stakeholder management.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead technical architecture for multi-agent systems LLM orchestration and AI automation workflows
- Set up and maintain the agentic engineering stack: frameworks CI/CD testing monitoring and deployment patterns
- Own the technical design for AI orchestration use cases across 4 client implementations
- Build and maintain reusable agent components tool-use libraries and prompt templates
- Lead Genie space setup and configuration for client data exploration
- Mentor and technically lead 3 Senior Agentic Engineers conducting code reviews and architecture discussions
- Evaluate LLM providers (model selection cost optimization latency tradeoffs) and recommend choices
- Bridge the gap between Data Science model outputs and agentic deployment ensuring models are served efficiently
- Collaborate with the onshore Senior AI Engineer on shared architecture decisions and technical standards
- Contribute to technical documentation runbooks and operational playbooks for the agentic platform
Required Qualifications
- 7 years of software engineering experience with at least 2 years in AI/ML engineering
- Deep expertise in Python and production-grade software architecture
- Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications at scale
- Strong knowledge of agent orchestration patterns (LangChain LangGraph AutoGen or custom frameworks)
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (Azure preferred) including container orchestration and serverless patterns
- Track record of mentoring engineers and raising team engineering standards
- Experience with MLOps: model serving monitoring versioning and cost management
- Strong system design skills with experience in distributed systems and API architecture
- Excellent written communication for technical documentation and cross-timezone collaboration
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Databricks Unity Catalog and/or Genie
- Background in media technology adtech or marketing analytics platforms
- Experience with RAG architectures vector databases and semantic search at scale
- Contributions to open-source AI/ML projects
- Experience leading technical teams in a DGS/offshore delivery model
Location:
DGS India - Bengaluru - Manyata N1 BlockBrand:
MerkleTime Type:
Full timeContract Type:
PermanentRequired Experience:
Director
About Company
Dentsu is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world’s leading organizations. Founded in 1901 in Tokyo, Japan, and now present in approximately 120 countries.