• Strong Lead AI Engineer Profile with agentic systems architecture expertise and pharma regulated-environment experience • Important (Experience 1): Must have 6+ years of software or ML engineering, with at least recent 2+ years building and shipping production LLM or agentic AI systems in pharma domain • Important (Tech skill 1): Must have hands-on proficiency with at least two agentic frameworks (LangGraph, LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI), with experience debugging framework internals • Important (Tech skill 2): Must have direct SDK experience with Anthropic Claude API (tool use, streaming), OpenAI Assistants API, or Vertex AI Agent Builder • Important (Tech skill 3): Must have Python mastery — production-quality code, type annotations, unit and integration tests, packaging, and performance profiling • Important (Tech skill 4): Must have RAG pipeline depth — embedding model selection, vector stores (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector), hybrid retrieval, RAGAS or custom evaluation harnesses • Important (Tech skill 5): Must have cloud deployment experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP; Docker, Kubernetes, IaC basics (Terraform or CDK), and CI/CD pipelines • Important (Tech skill 6): Must have agent observability experience — LangSmith, Helicone, or equivalent — with ability to diagnose latency, cost, and quality issues in production traces • Important (Tech skill 8) : Must have owned full sub-system designs — agent topology, data flows, API contracts, failure handling — for a bounded scope, and built multi-agent graphs, tool orchestration, retrieval, and memory systems. • Important (Tech skill 7): Must have track record of shipping 2+ agentic or ML systems to production — not just proof-of-concepts — with documented performance benchmarks • Important (Domain 1): Must have working knowledge of pharma commercial data (Rx/claims, NPI-level analytics, brand performance metrics) and experience operating in regulated data environments (GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA-compliant data handling) • Important (Domain 2): Must have exposure to at least one of: medical affairs analytics, RWE, clinical operations data, HEOR/market access, or regulatory intelligence • Important (Communication): Must be able to write crisp component specifications and communicate architectural trade-offs to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders • Important (Availability): Must be an immediate joiner or currently serving notice period, able to start within the next week • Important (Note 1) : Role is Hybrid, WFH flexibility as well upto 6 days a month • Important (Note 2): CTC is inclusive of 10% variable • Primary (Tech skill 1): MCP (Model Context Protocol); Veeva Vault, Medidata, IQVIA, or Symphony Health integrations; knowledge graphs (Neo4j, Amazon Neptune); RLHF/fine-tuning/model adaptation; prior consulting / services-firm delivery experience