Principal AI
Aptus Data Labs
15 - 17 years
Bengaluru
Posted: 21/02/2026
Job Description
Job Title: Principal AI
Experience: 10-15 yrs
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Summary
We are looking for a Principal AI Engineer to drive the design, development, and deployment of advanced AI and Generative AI solutions. The role requires strong hands-on expertise, deep architectural ownership, and the ability to influence AI direction through technical leadership, roadmap definition, and governance.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Ownership & Architecture
Lead the end-to-end design and architecture of AI / ML / GenAI solutions.
Make key decisions on model selection, frameworks, infrastructure, and deployment strategies.
Design scalable systems using LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, and AI pipelines.
Ensure AI solutions are secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient.
Hands-on AI Development
Actively contribute to building, optimizing, and deploying AI solutions.
Implement and refine LLM-based applications, including:
Prompt engineering
RAG architectures
Fine-tuning and evaluation
Agentic workflows
Troubleshoot production AI issues related to accuracy, latency, and performance.
AI Roadmap & Strategy
Define and contribute to the AI roadmap aligned with business and product goals.
Identify and prioritize high-impact AI use cases.
Guide AI initiatives from PoC to production and scale.
AI Governance & Standards
Establish AI governance frameworks covering data usage, model and prompt versioning, monitoring, and security.
Implement safeguards for data privacy, bias mitigation, and responsible AI practices.
Support compliance and audit requirements for AI systems.
Collaboration & Influence
Act as a technical authority across AI initiatives.
Collaborate with Product, Engineering, DevOps, Security, and Business stakeholders.
Review AI designs, architectures, and implementations.
Mentor engineers through technical guidance and best practices.
Required Skills & Experience
1015 years of experience in AI/ML, Data Science, or Applied Machine Learning.
Strong hands-on experience with Generative AI and LLM-based systems.
Proficiency in Python and ML/DL frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow).
Experience with RAG, vector databases, and AI evaluation techniques.
Strong cloud experience on AWS / Azure / GCP.
Experience with MLOps, CI/CD, monitoring, Docker, Kubernetes.
Nice to Have
Experience with agentic AI or multi-agent systems.
Knowledge of AI governance, ethics, and compliance.
Experience building AI-first or SaaS platforms.
Why Join Us
Opportunity to shape AI architecture, roadmap, and governance.
Work on complex, real-world GenAI challenges.
High technical ownership and impact.
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