AI Developer II
India
Job Description
AI Developer II
Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh

Job Summary

The AI Engineer with GenAI expertise is responsible for developing advanced technical solutions, integrating cutting-edge generative AI technologies. This role requires a foundational understanding of modern technical and cloud-native practices, AI, DevOps, and machine learning technologies, particularly in generative models. You will support a wide range of customers through the “Ideation to MVP” journey, demonstrating enthusiasm for learning and contributing to project success.

Key Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities Technical & Engineering Leadership • Develop solutions leveraging GenAI technologies, integrating advanced AI capabilities into cloud-native architectures to enhance system functionality and scalability. • Lead the design and implementation of GenAI-driven applications, ensuring seamless integration with microservices and container-based environments. • Create solutions that fully leverage the capabilities of modern microservice and container-based environments running in public, private, and hybrid clouds. • Contribute to HCL thought leadership across the Cloud Native domain with an expert understanding of open-source technologies (e.g., Kubernetes/CNCF) and partner technologies. • Collaborate on joint technical projects with partners, including Google, Microsoft, AWS, IBM, Red Hat, Intel, Cisco, and Dell/VMware. Service Delivery • Engineer innovative GenAI solutions from ideation to MVP, ensuring high performance and reliability within cloud-native frameworks. • Optimize AI models for deployment in cloud environments, balancing efficiency and effectiveness to meet client requirements and industry standards. • Assess existing complex solutions and recommend appropriate technical treatments to transform applications with cloud-native/12-factor characteristics. • Refactor existing solutions to implement a microservices-based architecture.

Skill Requirements

Innovation & Initiative • Drive the adoption of cutting-edge GenAI technologies within cloud-native projects, spearheading initiatives that push the boundaries of AI integration in cloud services. • Engage in technical innovation and support HCL’s position as an industry leader. • Author whitepapers and blogs, and possibly speak at industry events. • Maintain hands-on technical credibility, stay ahead of industry trends, and contribute to team learning. Client Relationships • Provide expert guidance to clients on incorporating GenAI and machine learning into their cloud-native systems, ensuring best practices and strategic alignment with business goals. • Conduct workshops and briefings to educate clients on the benefits and applications of GenAI, establishing strong, trust-based relationships. • Perform a trusted advisor role, contributing to technical projects (PoCs and MVPs) with a strong focus on technical excellence and on-time delivery.

Other Requirements

Mandatory Skills & Experience • A passionate developer with 3+ years of experience in Java, Python, and Kubernetes, comfortable working as part of a paired/balanced team. • Foundational experience in software development, with exposure to AI/ML technologies. • Proficiency in GenAI frameworks: Experienced in using GenAI frameworks and libraries such as OpenAI API. • Prompt engineering: Experience in designing and optimizing prompts for various AI models to achieve desired outputs and improve model performance. • Experience developing solutions that leverage cloud-native technologies—featuring container based, microservices-based approaches; based on applying 12-factor principles to application engineering. • Strong verbal and written communication skills (English). • Positive and solution-oriented mindset. • Experience delivering Agile and Scrum projects in a Jira-based project management environment. 2 Desired Skills & Experience • Understanding of NLP techniques and tools, including tokenization, embeddings, transformers, and language models. • AI ethics and bias mitigation: Knowledgeable about ethical considerations in AI and experienced in implementing strategies to mitigate bias in AI models. • Knowledgeable about vector databases, LLMs, and integrating with such models. • Proficient with Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies, including experience with commercial Kubernetes distributions (e.g., Red Hat OpenShift, VMware Tanzu, Google Anthos, Azure AKS, Amazon EKS, Google GKE). • Understanding of core practices including DevOps, SRE, Agile, Scrum, Domain-Driven Design, and familiarity with the CNCF open-source community. • Recognized with cloud and technical certifications, ideally including AI/ML specializations from providers like Google, Microsoft, AWS, Linux Foundation, IBM, or Red Hat. Verifiable Certification • At least one recognized cloud professional / developer certification (AWS/Google/Microsoft)

Information at a Glance

Why HCLTech?

At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 226,300 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending December 2025 totaled $14.5 billion.

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