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Gen AI

India

About the Role
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Generative AI Lead to spearhead our efforts in leveraging generative AI technologies to solve complex business problems, enhance productivity, and build innovative products and solutions. You will lead the design, development, and deployment of cutting edge GenAI models and systems that deliver tangible business value.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy and Leadership
Define and drive the companys generative AI roadmap in alignment with business goals
Collaborate with senior leadership to identify high impact GenAI use cases across departments
Evangelize GenAI within the organization, fostering a culture of innovation and responsible AI use
Technical Execution
Lead end to end development of GenAI solutions using LLMs, diffusion models, and other generative techniques such as GPT, Claude, DALL E, Stable Diffusion
Architect and fine-tune models using open-source and commercial APIs including OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Cohere, HuggingFace
Oversee prompt engineering, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), fine tuning, and model evaluation
Team Leadership
Manage and mentor a team of ML engineers, data scientists, and AI researchers
Define best practices, development standards, and ethical guidelines for AI development and deployment
Cross functional Collaboration
Partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Design teams to ensure seamless integration of GenAI features
Work closely with data engineering teams to ensure high quality data pipelines and infrastructure
Governance and Ethics
Ensure AI systems are developed with fairness, transparency, security, and compliance in mind
Stay updated on AI regulations and ensure all GenAI initiatives align with legal and ethical standards
Required Qualifications
Masters or PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, Data Science, or related field
7 plus years of experience in AI/ML; 2+ years in leading GenAI initiatives
Proven experience with LLMs such as GPT-4/4o, Claude, LLaMA, Mistral and generative frameworks
Proficient in Python, TensorFlow/PyTorch, LangChain, vector databases such as FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate
Experience with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP and MLOps tools
Strong understanding of NLP, transformer architectures, and prompt engineering
Demonstrated success in leading cross functional teams and delivering enterprise level AI products
Preferred Qualifications
Experience deploying GenAI in real world applications such as chatbots, content generation, knowledge management
Experience with multimodal models including text, image, audio
Contributions to open-source GenAI tools or research publications

About Virtusa

Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.

Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.

Virtusa was founded on principles of equal opportunity for all, and so does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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