Principal Gen AI Architect

About Position:

We are looking for a Principal GenAI Architect who can lead the design of scalable, enterprise-grade Generative AI solutions. The role requires strong architectural judgment, hands-on GenAI expertise, and the ability to guide teams toward technical excellence.

• Role: Principal Gen AI Architect
• Location: Pune/Bangalore
• Experience: 8+ Years
• Job Type: Full Time Employment

What You'll Do:

• Design and architect end-to-end generative AI solutions that meet business requirements and scale effectively.
• Lead technical decision-making for GenAI platform architecture, including model selection, infrastructure decisions, and system integration patterns.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams delivering GenAI solutions.
• Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, architects, and business stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Establish architectural standards, guidelines, and best practices for generative AI implementations across projects.
• Ensure security, compliance, cost efficiency, and reliability of AI systems deployed in production.

Expertise You'll Bring:

• Strong understanding of GenAI fundamentals and hands-on experience with at least one leading GenAI platform (OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google AI).
• Proficiency in prompt engineering and LLM optimization techniques.
• Strong analytical ability to evaluate trade-offs across design alternatives (performance, cost, scalability, maintainability, time-to-market).
• Experience creating architecture documents, technical diagrams, and stakeholder presentations.
• Cloud expertise with AWS / Azure / GCP, including serverless computing, containerization, cost optimization, and cloud security best practices.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and DevOps practices for AI/ML workloads.
• Understanding of monitoring and observability tools (e.g., LangSmith, Langfuse) to productionize AI systems.
• Strong grounding in software engineering best practices: coding standards, code reviews, documentation, and agile methodologies.
• Knowledge of design patterns, clean architecture principles, and AI-specific testing approaches.
• Proven experience in designing and deploying RAG architectures, including vector stores (Pinecone, Weaviate, ChromaDB), embedding strategies, chunking logic, semantic retrieval, and hybrid search.
• Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams in complex technical environments.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Culture focused on talent development with quarterly growth opportunities and company-sponsored higher education and certifications
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
• Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards
• Annual health check-ups
• Insurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents

Values-Driven, People-Centric & Inclusive Work Environment:

Persistent is dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We invite applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities, and regardless of gender or gender preference. We welcome diverse candidates from all backgrounds.

• We support hybrid work and flexible hours to fit diverse lifestyles.
• Our office is accessibility-friendly, with ergonomic setups and assistive technologies to support employees with physical disabilities.
• If you are a person with disabilities and have specific requirements, please inform us during the application process or at any time during your employment

Lets unleash your full potential at Persistent

Persistent is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.