About Us:

At Bolo AI, our mission is to use AI to make daily work faster, safer, and better for the heavy industry worker. We are building the next-generation agentic platform for heavy industries, starting with the Energy sector—enabling intelligent systems that reason, retrieve, and act across complex workflows spanning the field, office, and control center.

Role Overview:

As Head of Engineering – India, you will be responsible for driving engineering execution across our India development team. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on scaling a high-performing team of software engineers, MLOps experts, and applied scientists working on GenAI systems—including agent frameworks and platform, LLM orchestration, RAG, and enterprise deployments.

You will own engineering execution for our India team, collaborating with leadership in the US to align roadmaps, resolve technical dependencies, and deliver against ambitious product goals. Step into a role where you’ll shape the future of a $20 trillion industry by leading engineering execution from India.

Note: This role is expected to be based in the Bangalore, with at least 3 days per week in our Bangalore office.

What You’ll Own:

• Technical delivery across India engineering- You will manage day-to-day execution, code quality, and release timelines for all India-led development tracks.
• Build and Lead the India Engineering Hub: Drive team growth, foster a culture of ownership, and uphold technical rigor across engineering and data science.
• Set the Engineering Bar: You’ll own the systems, processes, and technical standards that enable fast, reliable execution—balancing speed with quality, and innovation with stability.
• Shape the Platform and Tech Direction: From architecture decisions to long-term infrastructure bets, you’ll help define the core technology foundation of the company.
• Scale with Intent: As one of the first engineering leaders in-region, you’ll play a critical role in shaping how the India team grows—not just headcount, but also culture, autonomy, and impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Architect scalable and high-performance systems to support LLM pipelines, RAG infrastructure, and agentic workflows.
• Team Building & People Management: Hire, mentor, and grow a top-tier engineering team across domains like frontend engineering, platform engineering, ML infra, data science, and backend systems.
• Product Delivery: Own the end-to-end delivery of mission-critical AI products from ideation to production deployment.
• Collaboration: Work hand-in-hand with founders and company leadership to align on technical direction and business priorities.
• Culture & Process: Establish best practices in software development, MLOps, DevSecOps, and system design; champion code quality, reviews, and architectural rigor.
• Scaling Systems: Lead initiatives to improve system performance, optimize LLM inference (CPU/GPU), and drive cost-efficiencies across cloud environments.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience; 2+ years in a staff/principal role, including working with global teams
• 2+ years as a people manager, preferably in fast-paced startup or scale-up environments.
• Deep expertise in building production ML systems including model training, optimization, and deployment at scale (LLM, RAG, agents, classification, etc.).
• Strong backend and systems engineering fundamentals with experience in Python, and microservice architecture.
• Prior experience with hybrid deployments (on-prem, VPC) and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Proven ability to scale engineering orgs, set processes, and lead cross-functional execution.
• Passion for solving real-world problems using cutting-edge ML and AI.
• M.Tech/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field. IIT/NIT/BITS alumni or strong academic background preferred.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with CPU- and GPU-optimized ML inference frameworks such as BOLT, TorchScript, Triton, ONNX, or vLLM.
• Background in LLM training (e.g., LoRA, QLoRA, RLHF, MoE), LLM Agents, multilingual NLP, or recommendation systems.
• Publications in top ML/NLP conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ECCV) or patents in the AI/ML domain.
• Prior startup experience, especially in enterprise or SaaS.

What We Offer:

Bolo AI is a technology startup headquartered in Palo Alto, backed by True Ventures, Benchstrength, Accomplice, J Ventures, and Beat Ventures. We offer competitive compensation, generous PTO, flexible working hours, an office in Bangalore for collaboration with colleagues, and the following:

• Competitive Compensation: A strong base salary
• Ownership & Impact: Equity options so you can share in our success as we grow and shape the future together.
• Hybrid Work Environment: Enjoy a flexible hybrid schedule—collaborate in person and work from home.
• Growth & Opportunity: Join us at a pivotal stage where your contributions will have a direct impact on our journey. As we grow, so will your opportunities.
• Culture of Respect & Collaboration: We live by humility, respect, and low ego. You’ll be part of a team that values your ideas and celebrates wins together.