Merck KGaA Posted September 9, 2026

Senior AI & Python Technical 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.

United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

Senior AI & Python Technical Lead

We are looking for an experienced Senior AI & Python Technical Lead to lead the design, architecture, and delivery of enterprise-scale AI, Generative AI, and cloud-native solutions. This role requires a strong technical leader with team management experience, capable of driving solution architecture, mentoring engineers, stakeholder engagement, technical governance, and end-to-end delivery of production-grade AI platforms.

Your Role

Lead and mentor AI Engineers, Python Developers, ML Engineers, Data Engineers, MLOps Engineers, Cloud Engineers, and Solution Architects.

Own technical architecture, technology strategy, engineering standards, and solution delivery.

Drive AI innovation, PoCs, reusable frameworks, enterprise AI adoption, and platform modernization.

Engage with business stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing AI solutions.

Establish engineering best practices across AI, software engineering, DevOps, cloud, and MLOps.

Who You Are:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline.

At least 10 years of hands-on experience in Python software engineering and enterprise application development.

At least 5 years of experience designing, developing and deploying production-grade AI/ML and Generative AI solutions.

At least 3 years of experience architecting Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Agentic AI and enterprise AI platforms.

Proven experience leading technical teams as a Technical Lead, AI Engineering Manager, Principal Engineer or Solution Architect.

Experience delivering enterprise AI platforms on AWS or other major cloud providers.

Strong experience in stakeholder management, engineering governance, solution architecture and large-scale Agile delivery.

Technical Skills

Programming & Backend

Python, SQL, NoSQL

FastAPI, Flask, Django

REST APIs, GraphQL, Microservices, Distributed Systems

AI / Machine Learning

PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn

Hugging Face Transformers

LangChain, LlamaIndex, DSPy

Generative AI

LLMs, RAG, GraphRAG

AI Agents, Multi-Agent Systems

Prompt Engineering, Context Engineering

Embeddings, Semantic Search, Hybrid Search

Agent Frameworks

LangGraph

CrewAI

Microsoft AutoGen

LangChain Agents

Vector Databases

Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate

ChromaDB, Milvus, FAISS

LLMOps & Evaluation

LangSmith, Ragas, DeepEval

OpenAI Evals, MLflow

Model Monitoring, Prompt Lifecycle Management, AI Observability

AI Security & Governance

NeMo Guardrails, Llama Guard, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails

Prompt Injection Protection, PII Protection, Responsible AI, AI Governance

Cloud & AI Platforms

AWS Bedrock, SageMaker

ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway

EC2, S3, DynamoDB, OpenSearch

EventBridge, Step Functions, CloudWatch, IAM

DevOps & MLOps

Docker, Kubernetes

Terraform, Jenkins

GitHub Actions, ArgoCD

CI/CD, GitOps, Model Deployment, Infrastructure as Code

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 393 comparable Senior Information Technology roles across 49 biopharma companies.

393Comparable roles tracked
367Currently active
49Companies hiring similar roles
28Countries represented

Salary context

61 of 393 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 · Sr. AI Science Lead · Lilly $267,000/yr – $391,600/yr
Peer group range $98,050 – $329,300 (median $183,750)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 393 comparable roles

India182
United States113
Spain22
Poland10
Portugal8
Japan5

+ 22 more countries

Seniority mix

393 of 393 peers have a known seniority level

Senior271
Principal67
Associate Director55

Therapeutic area mix

1 of 393 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Vaccines & Infectious Disease1

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