Specialist, AI Engineer

Job Description

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

• Design and deploy machine learning models for threat classification, anomaly detection, and risk scoring.
• Build LLM-based agents capable of contextual reasoning, summarization, classification, and workflow execution.
• Engineer prompt strategies and structured evaluation frameworks to ensure reliability and repeatability.
• Develop multi-agent systems that automate operational tasks and drive measurable workforce efficiency gains.
• Integrate AI outputs into enforcement platforms (e.g., conditional access triggers, device isolation logic, adaptive workflows).
• Implement regression, classification, clustering, or anomaly detection models aligned to real-world telemetry.
• Design guardrails, kill switches, and rollback mechanisms to ensure safe AI deployment in regulated environments.
• Partner with Data Engineering to develop feature pipelines and production-ready datasets.
• Build model monitoring and feedback loops to continuously improve precision and reduce false positives.
• Contribute to ontology-driven reasoning and entity-aware AI decisioning where applicable.

• 3–6+ years of hands-on AI/ML engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks (e.g., scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, or equivalent).
• Experience deploying production AI systems integrated into enterprise platforms or APIs.
• Demonstrated experience with LLM-based systems, prompt engineering, or agent-based workflows.
• Strong understanding of supervised and unsupervised learning techniques.
• Experience building evaluation metrics for model performance and business impact.
• Ability to translate ambiguous operational problems into structured AI solutions.
• Strong systems-thinking mindset and engineering discipline.

• Experience building multi-agent orchestration systems.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Defender XDR, Sentinel, KQL, or related security platforms.
• Experience with Microsoft Copilot Studio or similar enterprise AI orchestration tools.
• Exposure to MITRE ATT&CK mapping, risk engines, or behavioral threat modeling.
• Experience integrating AI outputs into automation platforms (ServiceNow, Logic Apps, API-driven workflows).
• Experience implementing AI governance, drift monitoring, and production lifecycle management.
• Familiarity with graph-based reasoning or ontology-driven AI models.

• Deploy at least one AI-driven agent or model integrated into a live enterprise workflow.
• Demonstrate measurable reduction in manual triage, operational steps, or ticket volume.
• Establish monitoring and evaluation frameworks for model performance.
• Deliver AI outputs that can safely trigger conditional automation actions.

• Own critical AI decisioning logic used in autonomous security workflows.
• Contribute directly to platform-level enforcement and measurable efficiency gains.
• Enable explainable AI outputs suitable for governance and executive review.
• Be recognized as a core builder of autonomous defense and operational optimization capabilities.

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