Lead Engineer (Founding India Team)

Job Title - Senior Engineering Lead (Founding India Team)

Job Location - Pune, Maharashtra

Salary Budget - INR 30 lacs

Our client is building our core India engineering hub starting with a Senior Technical Lead who will own architecture, lead the team, and work directly with executive leadership.

What You Will Lead

• Architecture, design, and development of core systems:

high-volume ingestion pipelines

agent telemetry + observability engine

analytics & risk-classification platform

LLM reasoning, eval layers, and agent-behavior models

• End-to-end delivery: design architecture implementation performance.
• Lead and mentor a high-caliber engineering team across Python, LLMs, front-end, and DevOps.
• Collaborate directly with executive leadership on roadmap, platform evolution, and scaling decisions.
• Institute world-class engineering standards (quality, security, reliability, testing).
• Guide UI development for complex agent-behavior visualizations.
• Recruit, upskill, and shape the future India engineering team.

What Makes This Role Special

• This is a founding-team-level opportunity in India high trust, high ownership.
• Massive technical challenge: AI drift detection, anomaly modeling, multi-agent governance, real-time pipelines.
• You will shape the architecture of a category-creating product in real-time.
• Direct weekly architecture sessions with the technical leaders.
• Clear career path to Engineering Manager / India Head of Engineering.
• Work on systems that Fortune-500 CISOs and AI leaders depend on.

This is not a maintenance role. This is 01 engineering for a global AI platform.

Tech Stack

• Backend: Python, FastAPI, async frameworks
• AI/LLM: Open AI, Anthropic, embeddings, RAG, vector DBs, eval frameworks
• Architecture: microservices, distributed systems
• Frontend: Angular (modern, modular UI)
• Pipelines / DevOps: CI/CD, observability, API gateways, containerized deployments

You do not need to know all pieces but you must love solving hard, ambiguous, high-scale

engineering problems.

What Were Looking For

• 812 years of software engineering experience.
• Strong system design & architecture capability.
• Production-grade Python + API design experience.
• Interest or experience in AI/LLM development.
• Experience mentoring or leading developers.
• Strong execution discipline in an agile product environment.
• Excellent communication and ownership mindset.

Nice to Have

• Experience with observability or security products.
• Experience in building data pipelines, analytics, or high-scale systems.
• Prior early-stage startup or founding-team responsibilities.

What You Get

• Direct access to founders with multi-decade startup + AI + security experience
• Ability to build the India engineering hub from the ground up
• High ownership, zero bureaucracy, rapid impact
• Work on a problem space with industry tailwinds and urgent enterprise demand