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Recykal.com

Senior AI Engineer

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Recykal.com

Hyderabad Full-Time 4–8 yrs exp Posted 2 hours ago  · Apply by Sep 14, 2026

We are seeking an experienced AI Engineer to lead the design, development, and

deployment of cutting-edge AI and machine learning solutions. The ideal candidate will have

strong hands-on expertise in Python, machine learning, and deep learning, along with

experience in building scalable production-ready AI systems. This role requires a blend of

technical excellence, innovation, leadership, and mentorship, ensuring high-impact delivery

aligned to business needs.

You will drive experimentation, improve model development pipelines, optimize data

workflows, and build reusable AI components. The role involves identifying risks early,

ensuring high-quality execution, and contributing to AI capability building across the

organization.

Key Responsibilities

AI & ML Development

  • Architect, develop, and deploy scalable AI/ML models for production with high performance and reliability.
  • Build at least two innovative AI solutions aligned with business priorities annually.
  • Ensure production-grade AI system delivery with < 5 bugs and strong reliabilitymetrics.
  • Improve end-to-end model development pipeline efficiency by at least 20%.
  • Develop reusable machine learning modules, tools, and automation frameworks to reduce development complexity.

Data Engineering & Pipeline Optimization

  • Improve data preparation and annotation pipeline efficiency by 50%.
  • Collaborate with data engineering teams to design efficient data pipelines and
  • automated preprocessing workflows.
  • Work with large datasets, perform data wrangling, feature engineering, and optimize
  • training/validation pipelines.

Innovation & Solution Design

  • Lead research initiatives to design AI-first solutions for new business use-cases.
  • Evaluate new ML frameworks, model architectures, and tools to continuously enhance system performance.
  • Conduct PoCs, benchmark results, and transition validated solutions into scalable production systems.

Quality & Risk Management

  • Identify potential project risks early and mitigate them, reducing unforeseen delivery issues by 99%.
  • Enforce best practices in model evaluation, versioning, MLOps, and monitoring for
  • long-term stability.
  • Ensure model security, fairness, and compliance standards.

Team Leadership & Mentorship

  • Mentor and guide at least 2+ junior AI engineers to build skill depth and readiness for
  • advanced roles.
  • Provide technical leadership on architecture design, experimentation strategy, and
  • performance tuning.
  • Help the team resolve primary business dependencies and technical blockers
  • efficiently.

Collaboration

  • Work closely with product, engineering, data, and business teams to convert business
  • needs into AI-driven solutions.
  • Communicate progress, risks, and results with stakeholders clearly and effectively.

Required Qualification & Skills

  • Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, Data Science, or related field.
  • 5+ years hands-on experience in machine learning and deep learning.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and ML libraries (TensorFlow/PyTorch, Scikit-Learn, OpenCV,
  • Hugging Face, etc.).
  • Proven experience deploying AI solutions into production environments (cloud or on-premises).
  • Strong understanding of MLOps, CI/CD for ML, containerization (Docker), and orchestration
  • (Kubernetes preferred).
  • Experience working with structured & unstructured data (images, video, sensor data, text).
  • Hands-on experience with data pipelines, ETL processes, and real-time inference systems.
  • Strong analytical and debugging skills with track-record of shipping stable solutions.
  • Understanding of distributed computing frameworks (Spark or similar) is an advantage.