Job Description

About the Role


We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Generative AI Lead to spearhead our efforts in leveraging generative AI technologies to solve complex business problems, enhance productivity, and build innovative products and solutions. You will lead the design, development, and deployment of cutting edge GenAI models and systems that deliver tangible business value.


Key Responsibilities


Strategy and Leadership


Define and drive the companys generative AI roadmap in alignment with business goals


Collaborate with senior leadership to identify high impact GenAI use cases across departments


Evangelize GenAI within the organization, fostering a culture of innovation and responsible AI use


Technical Execution


Lead end to end development of GenAI solutions using LLMs, diffusion models, and other generative techniques such as GPT, Claude, DALL E, Stable Diffusion


Architect and fine-tune models using open-source and commercial APIs including OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Cohere, HuggingFace


Oversee prompt engineering, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), fine tuning, and model evaluation


Team Leadership


Manage and mentor a team of ML engineers, data scientists, and AI researchers


Define best practices, development standards, and ethical guidelines for AI development and deployment


Cross functional Collaboration


Partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Design teams to ensure seamless integration of GenAI features


Work closely with data engineering teams to ensure high quality data pipelines and infrastructure


Governance and Ethics


Ensure AI systems are developed with fairness, transparency, security, and compliance in mind


Stay updated on AI regulations and ensure all GenAI initiatives align with legal and ethical standards


Required Qualifications


Masters or PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, Data Science, or related field


7 plus years of experience in AI/ML; 2+ years in leading GenAI initiatives


Proven experience with LLMs such as GPT-4/4o, Claude, LLaMA, Mistral and generative frameworks


Proficient in Python, TensorFlow/PyTorch, LangChain, vector databases such as FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate


Experience with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP and MLOps tools


Strong understanding of NLP, transformer architectures, and prompt engineering


Demonstrated success in leading cross functional teams and delivering enterprise level AI products


Preferred Qualifications


Experience deploying GenAI in real world applications such as chatbots, content generation, knowledge management


Experience with multimodal models including text, image, audio


Contributions to open-source GenAI tools or research publications

About Virtusa

Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth -- one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.



Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.



Virtusa was founded on principles of equal opportunity for all, and so does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.