Lead AI Engineer

Role: Lead AI EngineerLocation: Hyderabad (on-site only) Experience: 6+ years in AI/ML, with prior teamleadership Reports to: Founder/CEOAbout AutomatRAutomatR is a Unified Agentic Orchestration platform — bringing together Workflows,Agentic AI, Agentic Document Extraction, and Agentic RAG with Human-in-the-Loop, allgoverned through a centralized AI Gateway that handles governance, guardrails, agentdiscovery, and a centralized MCP server. We serve enterprise customers across regulatedindustries, deployed across cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped environments. Our agentic AIcapability is a core differentiator of the platform.The RoleWe're looking for an AI Leader to own the technical vision and execution ofAutomatR'sagentic AI capabilities end-to-end — Agentic Document Extraction, Agentic AI, AgenticRAG, and the governance/infrastructure layer underneath all of it. This is both a hands-ontechnical role and a leadership one: you'll make architecture calls, guide a growing AIengineering team, and be the final word on AI technical decisions the founder currently hasto make personally.You'll also be a critical bridge in the org: our .NET engineering team and ourAI team don'tnaturally speak the same language today. Part of this role is ensuring agentic AI capabilityintegrates cleanly into the broader platform — not built in isolation — which meansworking closely with the Tech Lead and .NET engineering to make sure AI features areusable, deployable, and maintainable across the full product.What You'll DoOwn the technical roadmap and architecture forAutomatR's agentic AI stack: AgenticDocument Extraction, Agentic AI, and Agentic RAG with Human-in-the-LoopMake and defend architecture decisions — model selection, cost-vs-quality trade-offs, and how agentic systems are governed, monitored, and controlled in production Own the AI Gatewaylayer — centralized governance, guardrails, agent discovery, andMCP server infrastructure that keeps agentic capability safe, observable, and consistent across the platform Lead, mentor, and grow the AI engineering team; set technical standards and reviewAI-generated and human-written code alike Partner with the Tech Lead and Product Owner to translate product specs into AIfeasible technical plans, and push back with technical reality when scope and feasibility don't line upEvaluate and integrate new models, frameworks, and agentic AI techniques as the field moves — separate real capability gains from hypeEnsure AI systems meet the reliability, auditability, and data-handling bar required by regulated enterprise customersOwn AI infrastructure cost efficiency — balance quality against real serving cost at scaleWhatWe're Looking For6+ years of hands-on AI/ML engineering experience, including production systems — not just research or prototypingDirect experience building agentic AI systems and Agentic RAG in production, not Just prototypes or demosPrior experience leading or mentoring an AI engineering team, with real accountability for technical outcomesStrong architectural judgment — comfortable owning trade-offs like model choice vs. cost vs. accuracy, and defending those calls with dataAble to operate at both altitudes: deep enough to review technical work and unblock hard problems, senior enough to own roadmap and represent AI strategy to the founder and to customersComfortable working across a mixed .NET/Python organization — translating AIcapability into terms the broader engineering team and product org can build aroundTrack record of shipping AI features into production, not just demos — including the discipline of validating in a sandbox before committing to production architectureNice to Have (not required)Experience with multi-agent orchestration and agent governance frameworksExperience deploying AI systems in regulated industries (pharma, financial services,healthcare) or in on-prem/air-gapped environmentsExperience with document understanding / document AI pipelinesExposure to infrastructure planning and cost optimization forAI systems atproduction scaleHow You'll Be Evaluated in the InterviewExpect a deep architecture discussion on a real production agentic AI system you've built — including the trade-offs you made and why — plus a discussion on how you'd structureand grow an AI engineering team inside a broader organization that isn't AI-native.