GenAI Developer — Tech Lead (Contract)

Zycus is looking for GenAI Developer in a Tech Lead capacity. The Contractor will provide specialized expertise in Generative AI (GenAI) development, architecture, and technical leadership to support the Client's AI initiatives as described herein.

The Client is undertaking a strategic GenAI programme to [brief description of business objective, e.g., 'build LLM-powered internal tools, customer-facing AI agents, and RAG-based knowledge systems']. The Contractor will serve as the primary technical driver for this initiati.

Key Responsibilities

Core Engineering Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy production-grade Generative AI solutions including LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, AI agents, and prompt engineering frameworks.

• Build and optimize applications using foundation models (OpenAI GPT-4/o, Anthropic Claude, Gemini, Mistral, Llama, etc.) via API or self-hosted deployment.

• Implement vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, pgvector) and embedding strategies for semantic search and retrieval.

• Develop and manage LangChain, LlamaIndex, or custom orchestration frameworks for multi-step AI workflows.

• Integrate AI capabilities with existing enterprise systems, APIs, and data pipelines.

• Ensure models are fine-tuned, evaluated, and monitored for accuracy, safety, latency, and cost.

Tech Lead Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end technical design and architecture of GenAI systems with a focus on scalability and maintainability.

• Define best practices, coding standards, and review processes for the GenAI engineering workstream.

• Mentor and guide junior/mid-level developers on GenAI concepts, tooling, and implementation.

• Collaborate with product, data science, and platform teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

• Conduct technical interviews and evaluate third-party AI tools and vendors as needed.

• Prepare and present technical proposals, architecture decision records (ADRs), and engineering roadmaps.

MLOps & Infrastructure

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for AI model deployment on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).

• Set up evaluation harnesses, A/B testing frameworks, and observability tooling (LangSmith, Helicone, Arize, etc.).

• Manage containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) for AI microservices.

• Implement guardrails, rate limiting, cost tracking, and latency monitoring for LLM APIs.

Mandatory Technical Skills

• Strong proficiency with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, or Cohere APIs LLM APIs:

• LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, or equivalent orchestration tools Frameworks:

• Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Chroma, or pgvector Vector Databases:

• Python (primary); TypeScript/Node.js desirable Languages:

• At least one of AWS (Bedrock, SageMaker), GCP (Vertex AI), or Azure (OpenAI Service) Cloud:

• Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions / GitLab CI, model serving (FastAPI, vLLM, Triton) MLOps:

• LangSmith, Helicone, Arize AI, Weights & Biases, or similar Observability:

Desirable Skills

• Experience with fine-tuning (LoRA, QLoRA, RLHF) on open-source models (Llama, Mistral, Phi)

• Knowledge of AI safety, responsible AI principles, and content moderation approaches

• Familiarity with multi-modal models (vision-language, audio-to-text)

• Experience with graph databases (Neo4j) and knowledge graph integration

• Prior Tech Lead or Staff Engineer experience in a product engineering environment

Five Reasons Why You Should Join Zycus

• Cloud Product Company: We are a Cloud SaaS Company and our products are created by using the latest technologies like ML and AI. Our UI is in Angular JS and we are developing our mobile apps using React.

• A Market Leader: Zycus is recognized by Gartner (world’s leading market research analyst) as a Leader in Procurement Software Suites.

• Move between Roles: We believe that change leads to growth and therefore we allow our employees to shift careers and move to different roles and functions within the organization

• Get a Global Exposure: You get to work and deal with our global customers.

• Create an Impact: Zycus gives you the environment to create an impact on the product and transform your ideas into reality. Even our junior engineers get the opportunity to work on different product features.

About Us

Zycus is a pioneer in Cognitive Procurement software and has been a trusted partner of choice for large global enterprises for two decades. Zycus has been consistently recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and other analysts for its Source to Pay integrated suite. Zycus powers its S2P software with the revolutionary Merlin AI Suite. Merlin AI takes over the tactical tasks and empowers procurement and AP officers to focus on strategic projects; offers data-driven actionable insights for quicker and smarter decisions, and its conversational AI offers a B2C type user-experience to the end-users.Zycus helps enterprises drive real savings, reduce risks, and boost compliance, and its seamless, intuitive, and easy-to-use user interface ensures high adoption and value across the organization.

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