Job Title : Engineering Manager, AI/ML Innovation & Product Engineering

Function : BPS Innovation Lab Technology Build Team

Reporting To: Innovation & Growth Lab Head

Location : Pune

Total Experience : 8 - 15 years

ROLE PURPOSE :

The Engineering Manager, AI/ML Innovation & Product Engineering is the most critical technical hire in the Innovation Lab. This individual will design the architecture, build the initial versions, and establish the engineering standards for all AI-enabled and full-stack products developed by the Lab.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

- Design the end-to-end technical architecture for all AI/ML and full-stack products.

- Own data pipelines for multi-modal and unstructured inputs.

- Build and own an evaluation/regression harness across all Lab products.

- Lead hands-on development of AI agent prototypes.

- Deploy MVPs into client pilot environments.

- Hire and grow the tech team (AI/ML and full-stack).

- Maintain a technology risk log and own unit economics per product.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE :

- 8 - 10 years of software engineering or ML engineering experience, including 4+ years in a technical leadership capacity.

- Production experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications or autonomous AI agents.

- Strong Python; API integration patterns, async architecture, data pipeline design.

- Built data pipelines for multi-modal/unstructured inputs.

- Integrated financial ERP APIs or document-processing pipelines (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite).

- Working knowledge of RAG architectures, prompt engineering, and LLM evaluation.

- Demonstrable 0-to-1 build experience.

- Hired, managed, and developed a technical team.

Tech Stack :

- Python, LLM APIs (Claude, OpenAI), agentic frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph), financial ERP APIs, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure).