Tata Consultancy Services · 1 day ago
Gen AI Technical Lead
Frederick, MD
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$110K/yr - $130K/yr
10+ years expTata Consultancy Services is seeking an experienced AI Technical Lead to design, build, and scale AI systems with a focus on Generative AI. The role involves leading technical strategy, mentoring engineering teams, and collaborating with various stakeholders to deliver AI-driven capabilities across the enterprise.
Business Information SystemsConsultingInformation TechnologyIT Management
Responsibilities
Lead the design and development of Generative AI solutions using LLMs, multimodal models, and diffusion models
Build and maintain Agentic AI systems, including autonomous agents, tools integration, reasoning frameworks, and multi-agent workflows
Develop production-grade AI components using strong engineering principles: modularity, maintainability, observability, and testing
Optimize models for performance, latency, and cost using techniques like quantization, distillation, and retrieval augmentation
Design scalable, secure, and compliant AI solutions aligned with enterprise engineering standards
Ensure adherence to best practices in software development, version control, CI/CD, containerization, and LLMOps/MLOps
Lead development of applications using LLMs (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Llama, etc.)
Build RAG pipelines, vector-based retrieval systems, and knowledge grounding solutions
Create autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents capable of task execution, planning, and reasoning
Drive experimentation with new GenAI techniques—prompt engineering, tool use, function calling, fine-tuning, and model fine-tuning
Evaluate emerging frameworks: LangChain, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, etc
Lead a team of AI engineers and developers; provide mentoring, coaching, and technical guidance
Translate business requirements into technical actionable engineering plans
Partner with product teams to define AI capabilities, roadmaps, and delivery milestones
Evangelize AI best practices and contribute to AI governance, ethics, and responsible AI frameworks
Qualification
Required
10+ years of software engineering experience; 3+ years in applied AI/ML engineering
Strong proficiency in Python, AI frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow), and API-driven development
Hands-on expertise with GenAI, LLM orchestration frameworks, RAG pipelines, and vector databases (Pinecone, FAISS, Azure AI Search)
Experience developing Agentic AI using tools/functions integration, planning agents, workflows, or multi agent systems
Deep understanding of cloud platforms: Preferably Azure, including ML Ops and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
Solid understanding of system design, distributed computing, microservices, and API architecture
BACHELOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
Preferred
Experience fine tuning LLMs
Knowledge of multimodal models (vision, speech, text)
Familiarity with Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, and open source models (Llama, Mistral, Gemma)
Practical knowledge of model evaluation metrics, safety guardrails, prompt optimization, and responsible AI
Background in Insurance is a plus
Company
Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy Services is a business solutions company that specializes on information technology services and consulting.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
Tata Consultancy Services has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (7880)
2024 (9690)
2023 (8537)
2022 (11159)
2021 (9813)
2020 (11984)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2004-08-25IPO
Leadership Team
K. Krithivasan
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director
Aarthi Subramanian
President and Chief Operating Officer
Recent News
Trak.in - Indian Business of Tech, Mobile & Startups
2026-01-22
Hindu Business Line
2026-01-21
Company data provided by crunchbase