Engineering
49 days ago

AI Engineer Manager

Zepto · Gurgaon
Pay
$5k–25k
Setting
On-site
IH Instahyre Loading... Find your dream job with Instahyre Unlock limitless career opportunities with lakhs of job openings in 10,000+ top companies. INVITE FRIENDS FIND JOBS LOGIN SIGNUP EMPLOYERS Zepto at a glance Founded in 2021 More than 1000 Employee reviews Overall 3.7 Work-Life Balance 2.8 Salary and Benefits 3.8 Company Culture 3.3 Career Growth 3.6 Diversity and Inclusion 3.8 Will Recommend to Friends 3 AI Engineer Manager Zepto Gurgaon10-14 Years Apply to Zepto Apply to Zepto About Zepto Our Story Founded in 2021 by Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra, Zepto is on a mission to save you time making every second count towards life's real joys. Our platform has revolutionized rapid commerce in India with cutting-edge technology and strategically optimized delivery hubs. Zepto offers an extensive range of 45,000+ products, from fresh groceries to electronics, beauty essentials, apparels, toys and more, delivering across 50+ cities in minutes*. Zepto Caf extends our commitment to convenience, featuring a curated menu of over 200 fresh items. Engineering @ Zepto Building for scale, rapid iterative development, and customer-centric product thinking at each step define every day for a Zepto engineer. If building technology that impacts millions, brainstorming with some of the best minds in the country, executing at lightning speed, product-driven thinking, and owning your work from start to finish excites you, then Zepto is the right place for you. Job Description Function: Data Science and Analysis → Data Science / Machine Learning, IT Operations and Support → DevOps / Cloud, Software Engineering → Engineering Management agentic agents Azure CI / CD DevOps embeddings GCP +8 more GenAI governance LLM MLOps observability pipelines RAG Vertex AI Reponsibilities: Lead a high-performing team of AI engineers in India to deliver secure, scalable AI and agentic solutions into production. Run structured intake for new AI opportunities, working with Product, Commercial, Data Science and Engineering teams in India and the UK to clarify business problems, define scope and success metrics, and shape roadmaps. Architect and implement GenAI and agentic AI solutions on GCP, leveraging Vertex AI (models, endpoints, pipelines, vector search/RAG, Agent Builder) and core GCP services. Use Microsoft AI / Azure AI Foundry (or equivalent) and modern agent platforms to design and implement agentic workflows, tools and integrations with internal and external systems. Design AI agents and multi-step agentic workflows, including tool calling, MCP servers and agent-to-agent protocols, to automate and augment retail media and insight use cases. Ensure security, privacy and governance across AI solutions, including handling of sensitive data, access control, secrets management and safety/guardrail mechanisms. Define and embed DevOps/MLOps practices for AI (CI/CD for models, prompts and agents; infrastructure as code; environment promotion; blue/green and canary releases; incident response). Implement robust observability for AI systems: tracing prompts and tool calls, logging, metrics, dashboards and alerts to monitor quality, performance and cost. Establish AI testing and evaluation strategies: online and online model evaluation, red-teaming, regression testing, and human-in-the-loop review and feedback loops. Act as a hands-on technical leader, reviewing designs and code, unblocking complex problems, and setting engineering standards and best practices for AI delivery. Coach, mentor, and develop AI engineers, supporting their growth and ensuring a culture of learning, experimentation and continuous improvement. Requirements: Strong experience in software/data/ML engineering, including significant hands-on work building and operating AI/ML or LLM-based solutions in production. Proven experience leading AI/ML/LLM engineering teams or acting as a senior technical lead, ideally in a global or distributed setup. Deep practical knowledge of GCP and Vertex AI, with experience designing and operating production workloads using Vertex AI models, endpoints, pipelines and RAG/vector search. Experience with Microsoft AI / Azure AI Foundry or similar platforms, and familiarity with at least one modern agentic AI framework or platform. Solid understanding of LLMs and foundation models (transformers, tokenisation, context windows, embeddings, RAG, fine-tuning vs adapters vs prompts, tool calling and risks such as hallucinations or prompt injection). Hands-on experience designing and building AI agents or agentic workflows, integrating them with tools, APIs and internal systems, and managing their reliability, safety and observability. Strong background in security, governance and compliance for AI solutions, including handling of sensitive data, role-based access controls and auditability. Experience with DevOps/MLOps practices for AI: CI/CD, model and prompt versioning, environment management, infrastructure as code, monitoring and incident management. Knowledge of AI evaluation techniques and model testing, including experiment design, quantitative and qualitative evaluation, and human-in-the-loop processes. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; able to collaborate effectively with teams in India and internationally, and to balance ambition, feasibility and risk. 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