Principal AI Architect

Job Title: Principal AI Architect
Client: Wipro/ Cisco
Location: Remote
Duration: 6+ Months

Job Description:
* 12+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML engineering and data science, with significant depth in
production system delivery.
* Deep, working expertise in LLM application development: LangChain, LangGraph, tool-calling
agents, RAG, prompt engineering, embedding pipelines, and hybrid retrieval.
* Proven track record architecting and shipping multi-agent systems, knowledge graph-powered
retrieval (Neo4j or equivalent), and real-time inference APIs.
* Strong ML fundamentals: XGBoost, deep learning, NLP, time-series forecasting, propensity
modelling, experimental design, and causal inference.
* Experience delivering AI systems in regulated industries (financial services, cybersecurity,
healthcare) with SOX, GDPR, or SOC 2 compliance awareness.
* Expert-level Python and SQL; fluency with GCP, AWS, Docker, FastAPI, BigQuery, FAISS, and CI/CD
tooling.
Technical Depth
* Ability to design hybrid retrieval architectures that balance precision (graph traversal) and semantic
recall (vector similarity), with reranking layers — not just off-the-shelf RAG.
* Hands-on experience reducing LLM inference latency in production (e.g., redesigning pipelines from
multi-minute to sub-30-second response times).
* Experience building telemetry and evaluation frameworks that measure AI system quality, coding
behaviour, and model performance in production.
* Comfort reading AI research papers and quickly assessing whether new techniques are production
ready or hype.