Position Summary:
We are seeking a Lead AI Engineer to drive our enterprise AI strategy and build scalable, secure, and governed AI platforms with a strong focus on document indexing, search, and intelligent retrieval, supported by robust MLOps practices. You will play a key role in shaping AI architecture, standards, and adoption across teams.

Location:
Mumbai - India

What will your job entail?

Responsibilities

• Define AI architecture, design standards, and governance models
• Lead enterprise-scale AI initiatives and agent platforms
• Evaluate and select AI technologies, frameworks, and vendors
• Ensure Responsible AI, security, and compliance across solutions
• Partner with leadership to align AI initiatives with business goals
• Provide technical leadership and direction across multiple teams

• Lead the architecture and implementation of document intelligence and indexing solutions (OCR, NLP, embeddings, vector search)
• Design AI solutions for document ingestion, classification, extraction, summarization, and semantic search
• Define and enforce MLOps standards, pipelines, and best practices across teams

Required Skills

• Solid foundation in NLP, information retrieval, and document processing

• Define and enforce MLOps standards, pipelines, and best practices across teams

• Deep expertise in AI/ML and applied LLM systems
• Proven experience designing large-scale AI platforms

• Experience with OCR and document parsing frameworks
• Knowledge of document indexing, chunking strategies, and metadata design
• Experience with search technologies and vector databases (e.g., Azure AI Search, OpenSearch)
• Strong experience with MLOps tools and practices (MLflow, Azure ML, Kubeflow, etc.)
• CI/CD for ML using Git-based pipelines
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  Nice to Have
  
  Experience defining AI operating models or Centres of Excellence Exposure to FinOps and cost optimization for AI workloads Contributions to AI frameworks or open-source projects

Disclaimer

Ryan Specialty is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building and sustaining a diverse workforce throughout the organization. Our vision is an inclusive and equitable workplace where all employees are valued for and evaluated on their performance and contributions. Differences in race, creed, color, religious beliefs, physical or mental capabilities, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, and many other characteristics bring together varied perspectives and add value to the service we provide our clients, trading partners, and communities. This policy extends to all aspects of our employment practices, including but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, discipline, firing, promoting, transferring, compensation, benefits, training, leaves of absence, and other terms, conditions, and benefits of employment.