Senior AI Engineer I

Requirements Description and Requirements MGCC GG 11.1– Senior AI Engineer I Position Title: MGCC GG 11.1– Senior AI Engineer I Function, Responsibility Level:

Reports to (Responsibility Level): GG 12 or above Supervises: GG 10.1 – AI Engineer I GG 10.2 - AI Engineer II Location: Hyderabad Global Grade: 11 Cost Center (85 series): Complexity: OSTG PID/s Load Mapping: Position Summary MetLife established a Global capability center (MGCC) in India to scale and mature Data & Analytics, technology and operations capabilities in a cost-effective manner and make MetLife future ready. The center is integral to Global Technology and Operations with a focus to protect & build MetLife IP, promote reusability and drive experimentation and innovation. The Data & Analytics team in India mirrors the Global D&A team with an objective to drive business value through trusted data, scaled capabilities, and actionable insights. The operating models consists of business aligned data officers- US, Japan and LatAm & Corporate functions enabled by enterprise COEs- data engineering, data governance and data science

Role Value Proposition: AI Engineer plays a critical role in data and analytics life cycle and significantly contributes to production grade data and analytics solutions. The role requires one to demonstrate architecting, designing, and implementing the core AI and machine learning (ML) infrastructure that underpins our next-generation business applications . It is an individual contributor role, expected to solve wide ranging business problems

Job Responsibilities

• Develop and manage scalable enterprise AI capabilities that support the AI platform.
• Design, train, and optimize machine learning and deep learning models for a variety of business use cases (e.g., SLM, computer vision, predictive analytics, recommendation systems).
• Enable seamless integration of AI capabilities into business applications and workflows through APIs, SDKs, and microservices.
• Collaborate with multiple partners from Business, Technology, Operations and D&A capabilities (Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Modeling, Data Architecture, Data science, DevOps, BI & insights)
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for ML models, ensuring automated testing, versioning, deployment, and monitoring in production environments.
• Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Produce clear technical documentation and participate in knowledge sharing to mentor team members and enable
• Mentor AI Engineers & Data Scientists
• Independently lead design, solutioning & estimations

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Education Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or equivalent educational qualification

Technical Skills And Experience

• 8-10+ years of relevant experience
• Python
• Statistics, hypothesis testing, Feature engineering, Modeling
• Machine learning frameworks: SCikit-learn, Tensorflow,Pytorch,
• Natural language processing (NLP): spacy, Transformers, OCR
• Gen AI:Developing, and deploying Generative AI (GenAI) solutions using large language models (LLMs)
• Expertise with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG),architectures, including integrating external data sources and vector databases to enhance LLM outputs.
• Cloud platforms ( Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and orchestration tools
• Communication skills, analytical skills, structured problem-solving skills.,
• Storytelling skills ,Partner & Stakeholder engagement experience

Good To Have (Preferred)

• Banking Financial Services and Insurance domain knowledge
• Stay abreast of the latest trends and advancements in AI, ML, and platform engineering. Evaluate and prototype emerging technologies for inclusion in the enterprise platform.
• Optimize platform components for efficiency, scalability, and reliability using best practices in distributed computing, resource management, and cloud-native architectures.
• Advocate for security, privacy, ethical, and compliance best practices throughout the AI/ML platform and model development lifecycle.

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