Senior Specialist - Artificial Intelligence

Location: India, Pune COE

For more than 40 years, Accelya has been the industry’s partner for change, simplifying airline financial and commercial processes and empowering the air transport community to take better control of the future. Whether partnering with IATA on industry-wide initiatives or enabling digital transformation to simplify airline processes, Accelya drives the airline industry forward and proudly puts control back in the hands of airlines so they can move further, faster.

Role Purpose

As Senior Specialist - Artifical Intelligence at Accelya, you will lead AI/ML development, architecting intelligent systems, mentoring engineers and applying advanced AI techniques to solve complex airline domain problems at scale.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of complex, production-grade AI/ML systems for airline software applications
• Architect scalable ML platforms and AI feature infrastructure on AWS, integrating with Accelya's microservices architecture
• Drive adoption of advanced AI techniques including foundation models, RAG, agentic AI and reinforcement learning for airline domain problems
• Lead ML experiment design, statistical evaluation and production deployment of high-impact AI capabilities
• Partner with senior product and engineering leaders on AI product strategy and roadmap
• Define AI engineering standards, review practices and MLOps governance across the team
• Publish internal research, thought leadership and contribute to Accelya's AI knowledge community

Required Experience & Skills

• 5–7 years of AI/ML engineering experience with a track record of high-impact model delivery
• Expert ML skills across classical ML, deep learning, LLMs and generative AI
• Deep experience with ML platform engineering, MLOps and responsible AI
• Proven ability to lead ML engineering teams and drive technical strategy
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field; Master's or PhD preferred

Preferred Experience & Skills

• Deep expertise in generative AI, foundation models and agentic AI frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex) applied to enterprise software products
• Knowledge of how FLYR's AI-native architecture, PROS AI and Amadeus ML capabilities are shaping AI in the airline technology sector
• Expert use of AWS AI services (SageMaker, Bedrock, Comprehend) within Accelya's AWS-partnered cloud environment
• Understanding of responsible AI governance in airline technology, including model explainability, fairness in pricing AI and regulatory implications for AI-driven airline decisions

What do we offer?

• An open culture with a creative and challenging opportunity to satisfy your intellectual needs
• Flexible working hours
• Smart working: a hybrid remote/office working environment
• Work-life balance
• An excellent, dynamic and multicultural environment to work in

About Accelya

Accelya is a leading global software provider to the airline industry, powering over 200 airlines with an open, modular software platform. Owned by Vista Equity Partners, we bring together 2,000+ employees across 10 global offices. We are proud partners of AWS and pioneers in NDC expertise. Find out more at www.accelya.com

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