Merck KGaA Posted September 6, 2026

Senior AI-ML Platform Engineer / Tech Lead

Bangalore, Karnataka, India FULL_TIME
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About this opportunity

Work Your Magic with us!

Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.

Senior AI/ML Platform Engineer / Technical Lead (all genders)

Your Role

As a Senior AI/ML Platform Engineer and Technical Lead, you will be at the heart of building and evolving the AI/ML platform that powers intelligent capabilities across the organisation. In this role, you will lead a team of professional engineers, setting clear objectives, supporting their development, and being accountable for the quality, accuracy, and timeliness of the team's output. You will solve complex, operationally important engineering challenges by filtering and prioritising inputs from a wide range of internal and external sources, drawing on an in-depth understanding of how platform sub-functions work together. Acting as a key technical liaison across Cloud, Cybersecurity, Governance, and adjacent engineering teams, you will ensure the platform remains aligned with enterprise standards and emerging best practices. Your decisions will be guided by resource availability and organisational objectives, and you will contribute to defining team responsibilities, engineering standards, and platform governance practices that raise the quality bar across closely related teams.

Who You Are

8 or more years of relevant industry experience in software or platform engineering, including at least 2 years working with large language model operations (LLMOps) in a production environment.

Hands-on experience with LLM/API gateway technologies such as LiteLLM or comparable solutions, and with multi-provider integration across major cloud AI platforms including Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, and AWS Bedrock.

Practical experience with cloud-native technologies on AWS and/or Azure, including container orchestration (such as ECS Fargate), secrets management, relational and non-relational databases, networking, and load balancing.

Proficiency in developing production-grade backend services using Python and asynchronous programming frameworks; experience with Rust is a plus.

Experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tooling, including containerisation with Docker, pipeline automation with Azure DevOps, and cloud provisioning frameworks such as Terraform or CloudFormation.

Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools used in AI/ML environments, such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or LLM-specific evaluation tooling.

Experience with identity and access management technologies, including Entra ID, JWT, OIDC, SSO, API keys, and related IAM methods.

Demonstrated ability to lead professional engineers, set team priorities, and drive platform quality, balancing hands-on technical depth with team accountability and a focus on scalable, well-governed engineering.

What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe that this variety drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!

Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!

Job details

Seniority
Senior
Function
Information Technology
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Employment type
FULL_TIME

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Information Technology role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 592 comparable Senior Information Technology roles across 56 biopharma companies.

592Comparable roles tracked
549Currently active
56Companies hiring similar roles
31Countries represented

Salary context

75 of 592 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Highest disclosed · Dir/Sr. Dir - Lab Automation Engineer, Discovery Oncology · Lilly $180,000/yr – $297,000/yr
Peer group range $98,050 – $238,500 (median $178,500)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 592 comparable roles

India235
United States190
Spain42
Poland20
Philippines12
United Kingdom12

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Seniority mix

592 of 592 peers have a known seniority level

Senior406
Principal95
Associate Director91

Therapeutic area mix

4 of 592 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology3
Vaccines & Infectious Disease1

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