AI Architect

At Zimmer Biomet, we believe in pushing the boundaries of innovation and driving our mission forward. As a global medical technology leader for nearly 100 years, a patient’s mobility is enhanced by a Zimmer Biomet product or technology every 8 seconds.

As a Zimmer Biomet team member, you will share in our commitment to providing mobility and renewed life to people around the world. To support our talent team, we focus on development opportunities, robust employee resource groups (ERGs), a flexible working environment, location specific competitive total rewards, wellness incentives and a culture of recognition and performance awards. We are committed to creating an environment where every team member feels included, respected, empowered and recognised.

What You Can Expect

Responsible for designing the end-to-end architecture, frameworks that enable scalable, and high-performance AI systems both within the organization and for product teams. This role bridges machine learning, software engineering, and cloud infrastructure to create a cohesive enterprise AI ecosystem. The AI Architect defines reference architectures, accelerates solution teams, ensures compliance, and sets the technical direction for how AI is built, deployed, and governed

• Work Location: Bangalore
  Work Mode: Hybrid (3 Days in office)

How You'll Create Impact

• Design the AI architecture for the enterprise including inference layers, vector stores, data ingestion, orchestration, and monitoring.
• Architect scalable LLM/RAG systems, agent frameworks, and generative AI services that can be reused across domains and business units.
• Define standards for embeddings, vectorization, prompt orchestration, caching layers, and evaluation pipelines.
• Establish patterns for developing, fine-tuning, and deploying ML/LLM models
• Evaluate when to use foundation models, when to fine-tune, and when to build custom models.
• Define and enforce AI architecture principles, security policies, and compliance (HIPAA, FDA, ISO).
• Implement guardrails for privacy, PHI/PII protection, safe model usage, hallucination risk mitigation, audit logging, and explainability

What Makes You Stand Out

• Partner with data engineering, IT security, cloud infrastructure, and product teams to ensure architectural alignment.
• Participate in roadmap planning and technology selection for the AI/ML ecosystem.
• Conduct build-vs-buy assessments for AI platforms, tokenization, data protection, vector databases, model hosting, and MLOps tools.

Your Background

• Required Technical Skills:

Total Expereince - 10+ years

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, AI/ML, or related field; equivalent experience considered.
• 5+ years of experience in ML/AI engineering, data engineering, platform engineering, or cloud architecture.
• Strong proficiency in distributed systems, cloud architecture (Azure)-any, and containerization (Kubernetes).
• Hands-on experience designing and deploying ML/LLM systems in production.
• Expertise with ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow), MLOps tools (MLflow, KServe, Kubeflow, Airflow), and vector databases.
• Deep understanding of LLM/RAG patterns, embeddings, prompt engineering, caching layer

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with agent frameworks (LangChain, OpenAI Agents API).
• Experience in highly regulated industries (healthcare, MedTech, pharma).
• Experience with encryption, tokenization, PHI/PII protection, or secure ML workflows

Physical Requirements

Travel Expectations

EOE/M/F/Vet/Disability

• Experience with agent frameworks (LangChain, OpenAI Agents API).
• Experience in highly regulated industries (healthcare, MedTech, pharma).
• Experience with encryption, tokenization, PHI/PII protection, or secure ML workflows