Principal Technical Consultant AI

About the role

AHEAD is a digital transformation consultancy that builds platforms for digital business by combining cloud infrastructure, automation, analytics, and software delivery. As a Principal Technical Consultant, AI Services, you own the hands-on delivery of AI solutions, turning solution designs into production-grade GenAI and Agentic AI workflows and deploying them reliably in live client environments. You collaborate with clients and interdisciplinary teams to understand business needs, contribute to technical direction, and guide junior engineers. This is a full-time, remote role based in Gurugram, Haryana.

What you’ll do

• Own the hands-on delivery of AI solutions end-to-end: build, test, integrate, deploy, and ship GenAI services and agentic workflows into production
• Take solutions from prototype to production handling deployment, release, versioning, and rollback, and keep them running reliably once they are live
• Make sound design and trade-off decisions as you build, and bring the hard, cross-cutting calls into the team’s technical discussions contributing to the architecture
• Produce and maintain your own estimates, task breakdowns, and delivery status; surface risks, blockers, and dependencies early
• Design, implement, and maintain Python-based services and workflows that integrate LLMs and GenAI capabilities with client systems and applications
• Build agentic and multi-step workflows using orchestration frameworks and platform patterns (e.g., LangGraph, AgentCore, LangChain)
• Develop robust tooling and APIs for agents, with clear input/output schemas, error contracts, versioning, and observability hooks
• Consume retrieval/RAG and search abstractions to improve grounding and reliability, tuning parameters (top-k, scoring, filters)

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a data science-related role, with a focus on machine learning and deep learning
• Strong Python coding skills with an emphasis on writing efficient, scalable, and maintainable code
• Experience developing and training custom deep learning models using TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn
• Hands-on experience with Jupyter Notebooks, Azure Machine Learning Studio, Azure OpenAI, AWS SageMaker, nVidia AI Enterprise & DGX platforms
• Hands-on experience with leading open source and major model providers such as LLama, Anthropic's Claude, Open AI
• Solid understanding of transformer architectures, attention mechanisms, and other advanced deep learning concepts
• Knowledge of generative AI concepts, including fine-tuning, transfer learning, and RAG methods

Skills

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees, with options to extend coverage to dependents
• Paid time off and company holidays, along with additional leave benefits as per policy
• Flexible work arrangements, supporting work-life balance
• Learning and development opportunities to support continuous growth and upskilling
• Employee wellness initiatives and programs focused on physical and mental well-being

Education

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.