Technical Lead ((GenAI​/LLMs​/Django

Position: Technical Lead ((GenAI / LLMs / Django) )
Job Title:

Technical Lead (GenAI / LLMs / Django)

Experience:

5+ years

Location:

Noida, Sec-62 (WFO)

Company

Description:

XTEN-AV is the world's leading AI-powered professional AV design platform, revolutionizing the AV industry by automating various design processes and documentation tasks. Our platform enables AV designers, integrators and manufacturers to enhance their productivity by 10X, streamlining workflows and delivering exceptional results.

About the Role

We are looking for  Technical Lead  who has built and shipped real-world applications using Generative AI, Large Language Models and Django. This role is not about experiments or notebooks- it’s about owning production-grade AI systems end to end. You will work on designing, building, and scaling AI-driven features that directly impact users, integrating LLMs deeply into backend systems, workflows and products.

Key Responsibilities

· Design and build production-ready GenAI features using LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, open source models, etc.)

· Architect and implement backend services in Django for AI-powered workflows

· Develop prompting strategies, structured outputs, and guardrails for reliability

· Build and maintain end-to-end AI systems (API → logic → persistence → UI integration)

· Optimize for latency, cost, and accuracy in LLM-based systems

· Implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), embeddings, and vector search

· Handle evaluation, monitoring, and iteration of AI outputs

· Collaborate with product and frontend teams to ship usable AI features

· Write clean, testable, and maintainable code

Required Skills & Experience

· 5+ years of professional experience as a software or AI engineer

· Strong hands-on experience with Generative AI and LLMs

· Proven experience building complete projects using: o LLM APIs o Prompt engineering o Structured JSON outputs

· Strong backend experience with Python & Django

· Experience integrating LLMs into real products, not just demos

· Solid understanding of: o REST APIs o Databases (Postgres preferred) o Async/background processing

· Comfortable working in fast-moving product environments

Nice to Have :

· Experience with RAG pipelines, vector databases (Pinecone, FAISS, Weaviate, etc.)

· Experience with tool calling / function calling

· Familiarity with Lang Chain / Llama Index (or similar frameworks)

· Experience handling prompt versioning and evaluation

· Frontend exposure

· Startup or SaaS experience

What We’re Looking For?

· Someone who ships, not just prototypes

· Clear thinking around AI reliability and failure modes

· Comfortable making architectural decisions

· Strong ownership mindset

· Ability to balance speed with correctness

What You’ll Build?

· AI-powered workflows and assistants

· Intelligent document generation systems

· Structured AI agents integrated into real products

· Scalable backend systems around LLM