Lead AI Engineer

Role: Lead AI Engineer
Location: Hyderabad (on-site only)
Experience: 6+ years in AI/ML, with prior team
leadership Reports to: Founder/CEO
About AutomatR
AutomatR is a Unified Agentic Orchestration platform — bringing together Workflows,
Agentic AI, Agentic Document Extraction, and Agentic RAG with Human-in-the-Loop, all
governed through a centralized AI Gateway that handles governance, guardrails, agent
discovery, and a centralized MCP server. We serve enterprise customers across regulated
industries, deployed across cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped environments. Our agentic AI
capability is a core differentiator of the platform.
The Role
We're looking for an AI Leader to own the technical vision and execution ofAutomatR's
agentic AI capabilities end-to-end — Agentic Document Extraction, Agentic AI, Agentic
RAG, and the governance/infrastructure layer underneath all of it. This is both a hands-on
technical role and a leadership one: you'll make architecture calls, guide a growing AI
engineering team, and be the final word on AI technical decisions the founder currently has
to make personally.
You'll also be a critical bridge in the org: our .NET engineering team and ourAI team don't
naturally speak the same language today. Part of this role is ensuring agentic AI capability
integrates cleanly into the broader platform — not built in isolation — which means
working closely with the Tech Lead and .NET engineering to make sure AI features are
usable, deployable, and maintainable across the full product.
What You'll Do
Own the technical roadmap and architecture forAutomatR's agentic AI stack: Agentic
Document Extraction, Agentic AI, and Agentic RAG with Human-in-the-Loop
Make and defend architecture decisions — model selection, cost-vs-quality trade-offs, and how agentic systems are governed, monitored, and controlled in production Own the AI Gateway
layer — centralized governance, guardrails, agent discovery, and MCP server infrastructure that keeps agentic capability safe, observable, and consistent across the platform Lead, mentor, and grow the AI engineering team; set technical standards and review
AI-generated and human-written code alike Partner with the Tech Lead and Product Owner to translate product specs into AIfeasible technical plans, and push back with technical reality when scope and feasibility don't line up
Evaluate and integrate new models, frameworks, and agentic AI techniques as the field moves — separate real capability gains from hypeEnsure AI systems meet the reliability, auditability, and data-handling bar required by regulated enterprise customers
Own AI infrastructure cost efficiency — balance quality against real serving cost at scale
WhatWe're Looking For
6+ years of hands-on AI/ML engineering experience, including production systems — not just research or prototyping
Direct experience building agentic AI systems and Agentic RAG in production, not Just prototypes or demos
Prior experience leading or mentoring an AI engineering team, with real accountability for technical outcomes
Strong architectural judgment — comfortable owning trade-offs like model choice vs. cost vs. accuracy, and defending those calls with data
Able to operate at both altitudes: deep enough to review technical work and unblock hard problems, senior enough to own roadmap and represent AI strategy to the founder and to customers
Comfortable working across a mixed .NET/Python organization — translating AI
capability into terms the broader engineering team and product org can build around
Track record of shipping AI features into production, not just demos — including the discipline of validating in a sandbox before committing to production architecture
Nice to Have (not required)
Experience with multi-agent orchestration and agent governance frameworks
Experience deploying AI systems in regulated industries (pharma, financial services,
healthcare) or in on-prem/air-gapped environments
Experience with document understanding / document AI pipelines
Exposure to infrastructure planning and cost optimization forAI systems at
production scale
How You'll Be Evaluated in the Interview
Expect a deep architecture discussion on a real production agentic AI system you've built — including the trade-offs you made and why — plus a discussion on how you'd structure
and grow an AI engineering team inside a broader organization that isn't AI-native.

Work arrangement
No