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Job Title - Engineering Lead (Founding India Team)Job Location - Pune, MaharashtraOur client is building our core India engineering hub — starting with a Senior Technical Lead who will own architecture, lead the team, and work directly with executive leadership.What You Will LeadArchitecture, design, and development of core systems:high-volume ingestion pipelinesagent telemetry + observability engineanalytics & risk-classification platformLLM reasoning, eval layers, and agent-behavior modelsEnd-to-end delivery: design → architecture → implementation → performance.Lead and mentor a high-caliber engineering team across Python, LLMs, front-end, and DevOps.Collaborate directly with executive leadership on roadmap, platform evolution, and scaling decisions.Institute world-class engineering standards (quality, security, reliability, testing).Guide UI development for complex agent-behavior visualizations.Recruit, upskill, and shape the future India engineering team.What Makes This Role SpecialThis is a founding-team-level opportunity in India — high trust, high ownership.Massive technical challenge: AI drift detection, anomaly modeling, multi-agent governance, real-time pipelines.You will shape the architecture of a category-creating product in real-time.Direct weekly architecture sessions with the technical leaders.Clear career path to Engineering Manager / India Head of Engineering.Work on systems that Fortune-500 CISOs and AI leaders depend on.This is not a “maintenance” role. This is 0→1 engineering for a global AI platform.Tech StackBackend: Python, FastAPI, async frameworksAI/LLM: Open AI, Anthropic, embeddings, RAG, vector DBs, eval frameworksArchitecture: microservices, distributed systemsFrontend: Angular (modern, modular UI)Pipelines / DevOps: CI/CD, observability, API gateways, containerized deploymentsYou do not need to know all pieces — but you must love solving hard, ambiguous, high-scaleengineering problems.What We’re Looking For8–12 years of software engineering experience.Hands-on experience with agent/workflow orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, and/or similar (e.g., LlamaIndex agents), including multi-step tool calling and human-in-the-loop patterns.Strong system design & architecture capability.Production-grade Python + API design experience.Interest or experience in AI/LLM development.Experience mentoring or leading developers.Strong execution discipline in an agile product environment.Excellent communication and ownership mindset.Nice to HaveExperience with observability or security products.Experience in building data pipelines, analytics, or high-scale systems.Prior early-stage startup or founding-team responsibilities.What You GetDirect access to founders with multi-decade startup + AI + security experienceAbility to build the India engineering hub from the ground upHigh ownership, zero bureaucracy, rapid impactWork on a problem space with industry tailwinds and urgent enterprise demand