Senior AI & Python Technical Lead

Role overview

Senior AI & Python Technical Lead at Merck

This role requires a strong technical leader with team management experience, capable of driving solution architecture, mentoring engineers, stakeholder engagement, technical governance, and end-to-end delivery of production-grade AI platforms.

Responsibilities

• Work Your Magic with us!
• Lead and mentor AI Engineers, Python Developers, ML Engineers, Data Engineers, MLOps Engineers, Cloud Engineers, and Solution Architects.

Required qualifications

• At least 10 years of hands-on experience in Python software engineering and enterprise application development.
• At least 5 years of experience designing, developing and deploying production-grade AI/ML and Generative AI solutions.
• At least 3 years of experience architecting Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Agentic AI and enterprise AI platforms.

Required skills

• Programming & Backend.
• Python, SQL, NoSQL.
• FastAPI, Flask, Django.
• REST APIs, GraphQL, Microservices, Distributed Systems.
• AI / Machine Learning.
• PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn.
• Hugging Face Transformers.
• LangChain, LlamaIndex, DSPy.
• Generative AI.
• LLMs, RAG, GraphRAG.
• AI Agents, Multi-Agent Systems.
• Prompt Engineering, Context Engineering.
• Embeddings, Semantic Search, Hybrid Search.
• Agent Frameworks.
• LangGraph.
• CrewAI.
• Microsoft AutoGen.
• LangChain Agents.
• Vector Databases.
• Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate.
• ChromaDB, Milvus, FAISS.
• LLMOps & Evaluation.
• LangSmith, Ragas, DeepEval.
• OpenAI Evals, MLflow.
• Model Monitoring, Prompt Lifecycle Management, AI Observability.
• AI Security & Governance.
• NeMo Guardrails, Llama Guard, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails.
• Prompt Injection Protection, PII Protection, Responsible AI, AI Governance.
• Cloud & AI Platforms.
• AWS Bedrock, SageMaker.
• ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway.
• EC2, S3, DynamoDB, OpenSearch.
• EventBridge, Step Functions, CloudWatch, IAM.
• DevOps & MLOps.
• Docker, Kubernetes.
• Terraform, Jenkins.
• GitHub Actions, ArgoCD.
• CI/CD, GitOps, Model Deployment, Infrastructure as Code.

Employment details

• Location: Bangalore [Karnataka] [India]

About the employer

• Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life.

Benefits

• Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics.
• Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.
• We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences.
• We believe that this variety drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology.
• We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace.
• Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!
• Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!

Additional role details

• Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more?
• We know you’ve got big plans – so do we!
• Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet.
• That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.
• United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives.
• We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility.
• Senior AI & Python Technical Lead.
• We are looking for an experienced Senior AI & Python Technical Lead to lead the design, architecture, and delivery of enterprise-scale AI, Generative AI, and cloud-native solutions.
• Your Role.
• Own technical architecture, technology strategy, engineering standards, and solution delivery.
• Drive AI innovation, PoCs, reusable frameworks, enterprise AI adoption, and platform modernization.
• Engage with business stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing AI solutions.
• Establish engineering best practices across AI, software engineering, DevOps, cloud, and MLOps.
• Who You Are.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline.
• Proven experience leading technical teams as a Technical Lead, AI Engineering Manager, Principal Engineer or Solution Architect.
• Experience delivering enterprise AI platforms on AWS or other major cloud providers.
• Strong experience in stakeholder management, engineering governance, solution architecture and large-scale Agile delivery.