AI Engineer at Mastercard in Pune, Maharashtra, India

AI Engineer Location: Pune, India Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary AI Engineer Mastercard's Business & Market Insights (B&MI) group empowers organizations to achieve growth and innovation goals by delivering unparalleled data-driven intelligence and cutting-edge AI solutions. By harnessing proprietary data, frontier generative AI, and global expertise, B&MI helps businesses make smarter, faster, and more impactful decisions. We transform complex, multi-modal data into agentic systems and generative applications that drive measurable business outcomes and sustained competitive advantage. We are looking for a Lead Engineer, Generative AI & ML Engineering for the Operational Intelligence Program within B&MI. This role will lead a team of Gen AI engineers to architect and deliver next-generation LLM, agentic, and multimodal AI systems that enable business growth, elevate customer experience, and ensure secure, scalable, production-grade AI. As a technical leader, you will set the engineering standard for Gen AI development — driving innovation across agentic orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, LLMOps, and responsible AI — while fostering a culture of continuous learning and engineering excellence. Roles & Responsibilities • Architect and lead the development of multi-agent AI systems using frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, and AutoGen — enabling autonomous reasoning, tool use, inter-agent coordination, and adaptive decision-making at enterprise scale. • Design and operationalize multimodal generative AI pipelines that unify text, image, tabular, and graph data using transformer-based architectures (BERT, CLIP, LLaVA, T5, Whisper, GPT-4o, Gemini) for rich, cross-modal intelligence. • Build production-grade RAG and Graph-RAG systems integrating vector databases (Pinecone, pgvector, OpenSearch) and knowledge graphs (Neo4j, AWS Neptune) for semantic retrieval, entity-aware reasoning, and grounded generation. • Lead LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and model alignment strategies — including RLHF, PEFT, LoRA, and instruction tuning — to adapt foundation models for specialized enterprise use cases. • Establish robust LLMOps and MLOps pipelines on Databricks (AWS) using MLflow, feature stores, prompt evaluation frameworks, model lineage tracking, and continuous retraining workflows to ensure reliable AI delivery. • Develop high-performance Python backend services for LLM inference orchestration, async job handling, streaming responses, and distributed data workflows supporting high-throughput Gen AI operations. • Engineer state, memory, and context management subsystems that enable agents to reason temporally, maintain session continuity, manage long-context windows, and coordinate across tools and modalities. • Implement Responsible AI and AI governance practices — including bias detection, hallucination mitigation, explainability dashboards, output safety guardrails, and compliance with data ethics standards — ensuring transparency and fairness of deployed models. • Apply traditional ML and statistical modeling (regression, clustering, forecasting, ensemble methods) in hybrid architectures alongside LLMs for interpretable, explainability-first decision systems. • Continuously research, evaluate, and productionize advancements in generative modeling, agentic AI, multimodal transformers, and frontier foundation models — benchmarking against enterprise-scale performance and safety requirements. All About You • Master's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, or Engineering, with significant hands-on experience leading and delivering complex Gen AI or ML engineering programs in production environments. • Expert-level, hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying large language model (LLM) applications, agentic systems, and RAG pipelines — from prototype to production. • Deep proficiency with LLM ecosystems: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Hugging Face, LangChain/LangGraph, and open-source foundation models (LLaMA, Mistral, Falcon, etc.). • Strong command of Gen AI engineering patterns: prompt engineering, chain-of-thought reasoning, tool/function calling, vector embeddings, semantic search, and agent memory architectures. • Solid applied knowledge of ML fundamentals — predictive modeling, deep learning (PyTorch, TensorFlow), and statistical techniques — used in tandem with Gen AI for hybrid, interpretable systems. • Excellent Python engineering skills including async programming, API development (FastAPI), and building inference-ready microservices; SQL proficiency required. • Hands-on experience with cloud AI infrastructure (AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, or GCP Vertex AI) and familiarity with MLOps/LLMOps tooling (MLflow, Weights & Biases, etc.). • Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills — with the ability to translate complex Gen AI concepts into business value and lead cross-functional teams toward delivery. Corporate Security Responsibility Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices; Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed; Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.