Machine Learning Lead – Agentic AI Systems
Protecto
5 - 10 years
Bengaluru
Posted: 21/02/2026
Job Description
About Us
We are building an AI-native platform focused on intelligent automation and privacy-aware AI workflows. Our systems combine LLM reasoning, agent orchestration, multimodal understanding, and structured ML techniques to enable reliable enterprise AI execution at scale.
About the Role
We are looking for a senior ML Lead with strong hands-on experience in Agentic AI systems, LLM orchestration, and autonomous workflow design.
This is a deeply technical, hands-on leadership role. You will design and build autonomous AI engines capable of executing complex tasks with minimal to zero manual intervention, while ensuring reliability, determinism, and performance at scale.
We value strong engineering fundamentals (6+ years) along with 2+ years of production experience working with LLMs and agent-based systems.
WhatYoullBuild
Advanced prompt engineering systems enabling LLMs to:
oPerform complex multi-step reasoning
oStrictly adhere to defined output schemas
oExecute structured decision logic
Fully autonomous agent systems capable of completing tasks with zero manual intervention
Dynamic system-prompt construction engines that adapt prompts in real-time based on user input and context
Multi-agent orchestration frameworks with:
oTool calling
oMemory management
oReasoning chains
oPlannerexecutor architectures
Mechanisms to control LLM unpredictability and inconsistent behavior through:
oGuardrails
oOutput validation layers
oDeterministic prompting strategies
oSelf-reflection/ critiqueloops
oEvaluation pipelines
Intelligent ingestion and structured understanding of complex, heterogeneous data sources across multiple formats and modalities
Robust multilingual AI pipelines capable of reasoning and executing tasks across diverse languages and regional contexts
Advanced data transformation and controlled data generation frameworks for testing, validation, and system robustness
High-performance inference pipelines using:
oOpen-source LLMs and reasoning models
oGPU-optimized workloads
oBatch inference and parallel execution strategies
oScalable architectures for high-throughput AI execution
Key Responsibilities
Architect and lead development of production-grade Agentic AI systems
Design advanced prompt engineering frameworks for complex task execution
Build autonomous AI engines with dynamic system prompt generation
Develop strategies to mitigate hallucination and model inconsistency
Design multimodal ingestion pipelines for structured extraction and reasoning
Enable multilingual AI reasoning capabilities across workflows
Design synthetic and transformation-based data pipelines to improve evaluation coverage and system generalization
Integrate open-source LLMs and reasoning models into scalable pipelines
Optimizeinference performance using GPU acceleration and distributed systems
Design evaluation frameworks to measure reasoning quality, determinism, and reliability
Own the ML layer architecture and long-term AI roadmap
Mentor engineers on LLM best practices, agent design patterns, and AI reliability
WhatWereLooking ForRequired
6+ years overall software/ML engineering experience
2+ years hands-on experience building LLM-powered systems in production
Strong experience building autonomous agent-based systems
Deepexpertisein prompt engineering for structured, deterministic outputs
Experience designing dynamic prompt construction pipelines
Experience handling LLM unpredictability and improving response consistency
Strong knowledge of:
oEmbeddings and vector databases
oRAG architectures
oPlannerexecutor agent models
oMemory-augmented agents
Experience designing structured extraction pipelines across complex document types and semi-structured data
Experience working with multilingual models and cross-language reasoning systems
Experience building controlled data generation or transformation systems for robustness testing
Experience working with open-source LLMs and reasoning models
Strong Python and backend system design skills
ExperienceoptimizingML workloads for GPU-based high-throughput inference
Knowledge of distributed systems and scalable inference architectures
Nice to Have
Experience building privacy- or security-aware AI systems
Exposure to compliance frameworks (GDPR, HIPAA)
Experience fine-tuning LLMs or training domain-specific models
Experience designing model evaluation benchmarks and automated regression testing
Experience working with multimodal or vision-language models
WhatYoullGain
Ownership of next-generation autonomous AI systems
Opportunity to design and scale enterprise-grade Agentic AI from the ground up
Direct collaboration with founders and senior engineering leaders
Budget and freedom to experiment with emerging AI models and architectures
Ability to build real-world, production AI systems that solve complex enterprise problems
Compensation & Benefits
Competitive senior-level compensation
Flexible work culture
Research & experimentation budget for AI innovation
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