AI Architect- Model Engineering

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.

Job Description

Role Purpose

We are looking for an experienced AI Architect- Model Engineering to design, build, and govern enterprise-grade solutions using Small Language Models for domain-specific AI applications. The role requires strong expertise in AI/ML architecture, model architecture optimization, cloud-native deployment, data pipelines, RAG, fine-tuning, model evaluation, and secure enterprise integration. 

The ideal candidate will architect lightweight, cost-efficient, secure, and scalable AI systems that can run across cloud, private cloud, on-premise, or edge environments. The architect will work closely with AI Engineers, Data Scientists, Cloud Architects, Product Owners, and Business SMEs to deliver practical GenAI solutions optimized for enterprise use cases. 

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Key Responsibilities 

Model Architecture & Strategy 

• Define enterprise architecture patterns for Small Language Model-based applications.
• Evaluate and recommend suitable Models  based on accuracy, latency, cost, privacy, domain fit, and deployment constraints.
• Design AI solutions using open-source and commercial SLMs such as Phi, Llama, Mistral, Gemma, Qwen, Falcon, or domain-specific models.
• Establish architectural standards for SLM selection, adaptation, deployment, monitoring, and governance.
• Build reusable blueprints for SLM-based assistants, copilots, workflow agents, document intelligence, and enterprise search.

• Model Adaptation & Optimization

  • Architect solutions involving prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, LoRA, QLoRA, distillation, quantization, and model compression.
  • Define when to use prompt-only, RAG-based, fine-tuned, or hybrid approaches.
  • Optimize SLMs for low latency, reduced inference cost, and domain-specific accuracy.
  • Guide teams on token optimization, context management, embeddings, reranking, and model evaluation.

• Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, AI/ML, Engineering, or related field.
  • 8+ years of experience in software architecture, cloud architecture, or AI/ML engineering.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with NLP, transformers, GenAI, or LLM-based applications.
  • Experience deploying AI models in regulated or enterprise environments.

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