AI Engineer – Consultant (Tax) – Multiple Cities, India

About the role

Deloitte Tax Services India is looking for an experienced AI Engineer – Consultant to join its USI Tax Technology team. You will design, build, and deploy enterprise‑grade AI and large language model (LLM) solutions that support tax professionals and clients across India.

Key responsibilities

• Design and develop production‑grade LLM‑powered and Generative AI applications addressing complex tax challenges.
• Build Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, agentic workflows, and prompt‑engineering frameworks.
• Architect and implement scalable AI integrations on Azure, AWS, and GCP, ensuring reliability, performance, and security.
• Develop, train, evaluate, and optimise machine‑learning models using structured and unstructured data (NLP, supervised/unsupervised learning, fine‑tuning).
• Own MLOps practices: model versioning, CI/CD pipelines, performance monitoring, bias detection, data‑drift management, and model retraining.
• Collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, business analysts, and tax experts to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Lead technical design discussions, conduct code reviews, and document AI architectures, data sources, APIs, and deployment processes.
• Champion responsible AI principles, ensuring data privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.

Required profile

• Proven experience delivering end‑to‑end AI solutions in an enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding of tax or financial domain challenges is a plus.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross‑functional teams and communicate technical concepts clearly.

Required skills

• Large Language Models (LLM) and Generative AI
• Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Azure, AWS, GCP cloud platforms
• MLOps, CI/CD pipelines
• Model versioning and performance monitoring
• Bias detection and data‑drift management
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Supervised and unsupervised learning
• Fine‑tuning of large language models
• API development and integration