Cost/latency optimisation jobs

Director, AI/ML

AstraZeneca · Posted Nov 9, 2026

Bangalore, India
On-site
Senior
12+ years

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Lead technical vision and architecture for AI systems in a senior individual-contributor role, guiding advanced AI across commercial, medical, and technology domains.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the technical vision, roadmap and architecture for traditional ML, Generative AI and agentic AI capabilities
Provide hands‑on technical leadership to project teams; set design direction, review architectures and code, and remove blockers on sophisticated problems
Lead the design of multi‑agent systems and LLM applications, including orchestration, tool use, memory, guardrails and human‑in‑the‑loop patterns
Establish standards for evaluation, including automated and human‑in‑the‑loop methods, benchmarking, and quality gates pre‑ and post‑release
Drive approaches to fine‑tuning, distillation and reinforcement learning to improve quality, cost and latency over off‑the‑shelf models

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, engineering, physics, computational sciences or a related quantitative field
Nice to have: Master’s or PhD in machine learning, computer science or related field
Nice to have: reinforcement learning (RLHF, RLAIF)
Nice to have: knowledge graphs
Nice to have: NLP

Skills

Generative AI