Devnagri
Website:
devnagri.com
Job details:
Company Description
Devnagri AI is a Multilingual Intelligent Infrastructure Layer designed to enable enterprises to scale digital localization across multiple markets. Devnagri powers seamless text-to-text, text-to-speech, and speech-to-text capabilities in over 40 Indian and international languages.
Role Description
This is a full-time, on-site role based in Noida for a Vice President of Artificial Intelligence. The VP of AI will be responsible for leading the strategic direction of AI initiatives, overseeing end-to-end development and deployment of AI solutions, and driving innovation in multilingual technology.
Key Responsibilities
1.AI Vision & Strategy
- Define and execute the long-term AI roadmap aligned with company growth.
- Drive innovation across:
- Multilingual NMT & Transliteration
- ASR / TTS systems
- OCR pipelines
- LLM & RAG platforms
- Conversational AI & Voicebots
- Identify emerging technologies and convert them into competitive advantages.
- Represent Devnagri in strategic AI partnerships and industry forums.
2.AI Product & Architecture Leadership
- Architect scalable AI systems serving millions of requests.
- Oversee model training, fine-tuning, optimization, and deployment.
- Ensure production-grade reliability, performance, and monitoring.
- Lead large-scale LLM, embedding, ASR, and translation model deployments.
- Drive optimization (quantization, pruning, GPU cost reduction).
3. Team Leadership & Organizational Building
- Build and scale a high-performance AI team (NLP, Speech, ML, MLOps).
- Mentor Senior AI Engineers & Tech Leads.
- Establish code quality, research validation, and benchmarking frameworks.
- Create structured AI R&D and delivery pipelines.
- Develop second-line technical leaders.
4.Infrastructure & Cost Governance
- Oversee GPU infrastructure on AWS/GCP.
- Optimize inference cost and model serving.
- Ensure high availability and low-latency systems.
- Implement AI observability, failover, and auto-scaling systems.
5. Enterprise & Government Engagement
- Provide technical leadership in large AI deployments.
- Collaborate with Sales for solution positioning.
- Support high-value RFPs and AI architecture presentations.
- Act as technical face for key enterprise accounts.
Required Experience & Qualifications
Experience
- 8+ years overall experience in AI/ML
- 4+ years leading AI teams
- Proven track record of deploying production-grade AI systems at scale
- Experience handling enterprise or government AI projects
Technical Expertise
Strong expertise in:
- NLP, Speech, Deep Learning, Generative AI
- Transformer architectures
- ASR / TTS systems
- Multilingual AI (Indian languages preferred)
- LLM fine-tuning, RAG systems
- HuggingFace, PyTorch, TensorFlow
- vLLM, ONNX, CTranslate2, inference optimization
- Vector databases (FAISS, Pinecone, Milvus)
- MLOps, Docker, Kubernetes
- GPU infrastructure & cost optimization
Educational Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
- Graduates from premier institutions such as IITs, IISc, IIITs, ISI, or globally reputed universities will be strongly preferred.
- Advanced research exposure in NLP, Speech Processing, Deep Learning, or Generative AI is highly desirable.
Interested applicants can share CV with shima@devnagri.com
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