Lead Engineer

About the Company

Birlasoft, a global leader at the forefront of Cloud, AI, and Digital technologies, seamlessly blends domain expertise with enterprise solutions. The companys consultative and design-thinking approach empowers societies worldwide, enhancing the efficiency and productivity of businesses. As part of the multibillion-dollar diversified CKA Birla Group, Birlasoft with its 12,000+ professionals, is committed to continuing the Groups 170-year heritage of building sustainable communities.

GenAI App Tech Lead Azure OpenAI & Azure Cognitive Search We are looking for an experienced technical lead to implement an enterprise-grade conversational AI interface leveraging technologies like NodeJS, Python, LangChain, Azure OpenAI and Azure Cognitive Services.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced technical lead to implement an enterprise-grade conversational AI interface leveraging technologies like NodeJS, Python, LangChain, Azure OpenAI and Azure Cognitive Services.

Responsibilities

• Implement conversational AI application using NodeJS, Azure OpenAI and Python
• Integrate various AI technologies like OpenAI models, LangChain, Azure Cognitive Services (Cognitive Search, Indexes, Indexers and APIs etc) to enable sophisticated natural language capabilities
• Implementation of private endpoints across the Azure services leveraged for the application
• Implement schemas, APIs, frameworks and platforms to operationalize AI models and connect them to conversational interfaces
• Implement app logic for conversation workflows, context handling, personalized recommendations, sentiment analysis etc.
• Build and deploy the production application on Azure while meeting security, reliability, and compliance standards
• Create tools and systems for annotating training data, monitoring model performance, and continuously improving the application
• Mentor developers and provide training on conversational AI development best practices
• Build and productionize vector databases for the application on Azure cloud

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of overall technology experience in core application development
• 2+ years experience leading development of AI apps and conversational interfaces

Required Skills

• Hands-on implementation centric knowledge of generative AI tools on Azure cloud
• Deep, hands-on and development proficiency in Python and NodeJS
• Hands-on expertise of SharePoint indexes and data/file structures (Azure SQL)
• Hands-on knowledge of Azure Form Recognizer tools
• Experience with LangChain, Azure OpenAI and Azure Cognitive Search
• Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) using Python
• Vector databases on Azure cloud using PostgreSQL
• Pinecone, FAISS, Weaviate or ChromaDB
• Prompt Engineering using LangChain or Llama Index
• Knowledge of NLP techniques like transformer networks, embeddings, intent recognition etc.
• Hands-on skills on Embedding and finetuning Azure OpenAI using MLOPS/LLMOPS pipelines

Preferred Skills

• Good to have - Strong communication, DevOps, and collaboration skills

Location - All Birlasoft Location