Deputy Director - AI Solution and Platforms Observability

PepsiCo
Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Overview

Overview:

Senior hands-on individual contributor responsible for enabling enterprise Vision Intelligence capabilities across Computer Vision, Vision-Language Models (VLMs), Vision Agents, Edge AI and IoT. Partners with Domain and Enterprise Architecture teams to translate business needs and architecture patterns into scalable, production-ready capabilities.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

  • Serve as the technical SME for Vision Intelligence, covering CV, VLMs, Vision Agents, Edge AI and IoT.
  • Design, train, evaluate and productionize CV models for detection, classification, segmentation, tracking, OCR, anomaly detection and activity recognition.
  • Develop VLM and multimodal solutions for image/video understanding, visual reasoning and operational intelligence.
  • Build Vision Agents combining visual intelligence, IoT telemetry, enterprise context, tools and workflows.
  • Enable reusable platform capabilities including inference services, APIs, SDKs, model pipelines and reference implementations.
  • Deploy and optimize AI workloads across edge GPUs, industrial PCs, smart cameras and cloud/edge environments.
  • Integrate cameras, sensors and IoT/OT systems using RTSP, ONVIF, MQTT, OPC UA and related technologies.
  • Establish Vision MLOps practices for datasets, evaluation, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring and model drift.
  • Partner with Manufacturing, Warehouse, Quality, EHS and other domains to move solutions from POC → Pilot → Production → Scale.
  • Evaluate emerging CV, VLM, Edge AI, Vision Agent and Physical AI technologies through hands-on prototyping and benchmarking.
  • Collaborate with Domain and Enterprise Architects and mentor engineering teams on Vision Intelligence implementation.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

  • Overall 10+ years of overall experience is required.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 8–12+ years of AI/software engineering experience, including 5+ years in Computer Vision/Vision AI.
  • Strong hands-on experience developing and deploying production-grade CV models and real-time video analytics.
  • Practical experience with VLMs, multimodal AI and Vision Agents.
  • Experience with PyTorch, OpenCV, YOLO, ONNX, TensorRT, NVIDIA DeepStream or equivalent technologies.
  • Experience deploying AI on GPU/edge platforms, containers and Kubernetes/K3s.
  • Strong IoT/OT integration experience with cameras, sensors, gateways and industrial environments.
  • Experience with CV/Vision MLOps, model optimization, evaluation and production monitoring.
  • Demonstrated experience taking Vision AI solutions from prototype through production at multiple sites.
  • Manufacturing, warehouse, supply-chain, quality, EHS, robotics or industrial automation experience is highly desirable.
  • Exposure to Digital Twins, sensor fusion, robotics and Physical AI is a plus.

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