
Head AI - SaaS Startup - Bangalore | 10+ years experience
- Bangalore, Karnataka
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead the research, design, development and deployment of AI systems that are on par with the state-of-the-art available in the market today
- Build an exception AI team within the organization by finding, hiring and retaining the best available talent that is fit for our roles
- Participate in key strategic decisions for the business regarding the company's R&D efforts and IP portfolio as well as the engineering roadmap and design
- Lead the research and development of AI models - a varied portfolio ranging from small classifiers to fine-tuning LLM's for specific use-cases
- Develop and implement strategies to track and improve the performance and efficiency of existing and new AI models and systems
- Recent demonstrable hand-on experience with LLMs - integrating off-the-shelf LLM's, fine-tuning, building RAG pipelines, designing agentic flows, and other optimization techniques with LLMs
- Experience with Hugging Face, Spacy, BERT, Tensorflow, Torch, OpenRouter, Modal, and similar services / frameworks
- A postgraduate degree (MS, M.Tech. or PhD) in relevant Science or Engineering fields, with experience in research related to Deep Learning systems
- 8+ years of experience leading AI teams with successful production-deployed models
- Strong conceptual understanding of the basics of machine learning and deep learning with expertise in Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing