Senior AI-ML Platform Engineer / Tech Lead

Role overview

Senior AI-ML Platform Engineer / Tech Lead at Merck

Provide technical leadership and oversight for the AI-ML platform, including architecture, design reviews, technology choices, engineering standards, and platform governance.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical liaison with Cloud, Engineering, Cybersecurity, Governance, and other platform teams, ensuring the AI-ML platform remains aligned with enterprise standards, capabilities, and emerging best practices; mentor engineers and act as a technical sparring partner across teams.
• Desired Skills & Experience. 8+ years of relevant industry experience, including 2+ years in LLMOps.
• Ability to move comfortably between hands-on implementation and technical oversight.
• Experience with LLM/API gateway technologies, which may include LiteLLM or similar technologies.
• Experience with multi-provider integration across Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock, and similar cloud platforms.
• Experience with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Langfuse, or similar observability tools.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies across AWS and Azure, including ECS Fargate, Secrets Manager, RDS/PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, VPCs, Subnets, and Load Balancers.
• Experience developing production-grade backend services using Python, FastAPI, and asynchronous programming.
• Rust is a plus.
• Experience with Docker, Azure DevOps, Terraform, and/or CloudFormation.
• Experience with identity and access technologies including Entra ID, JWT, OIDC, SSO, API keys, and other IAM methods.
• Ability to think beyond day-to-day operations and focus on building scalable platforms, establishing standards, improving engineering quality, and creating the right level of governance for an enterprise AI-ML platform.

Employment details

• Location: Madrid / Barcelona / Bengaluru.
• We are looking for a Senior AI-ML Platform Engineer / Technical Lead who combines hands-on engineering expertise with strong architectural and strategic thinking.
• The successful candidate will help evolve our AI-ML platform while shaping engineering standards, governance, architecture, and development best practices.
• Location: Bangalore [Karnataka] [India]

Additional role details

• Senior AI-ML Platform Engineer / Technical Lead.