Colruyt Group Retail & E-commerce

Data Scientist / AI Solution Engineer

Hyderabad, India In person Full-time

Responsibilities

AI

& Agentic Application Development

  • ·Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered applications using
  • LLMs and Agentic AI architectures.
  • ·Build reliable AI workflows utilizing tool/function calling,
  • structured outputs, memory management, state handling, and error recovery.
  • ·Implement and maintain production AI systems with strong
  • focus on scalability, observability, security, and reliability.
  • ·Leverage AI-assisted development tools for coding, code
  • review, testing, and validation.
  • ·Define and execute AI evaluation frameworks, including
  • experimentation, model assessment, performance measurement, and statistical
  • analysis.

Python

Engineering & API Development

  • Develop high-quality,
  • maintainable Python applications following software engineering best
  • practices.
  • Build and maintain RESTful
  • APIs using FastAPI.
  • Implement API contracts,
  • request/response validation using Pydantic, and streaming responses.
  • Develop automated test
  • suites and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
  • Apply asynchronous
  • programming techniques to improve application performance and
  • scalability.
  • RAG,

LLMs & Machine Learning

  • Design and implement
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions.
  • Optimize chunking
  • strategies, embeddings, hybrid retrieval, reranking, and retrieval
  • quality.
  • Evaluate and improve AI
  • system performance using quantitative metrics.
  • Apply machine learning
  • techniques to predictive and prescriptive business problems.
  • Demonstrate strong
  • understanding of LLM architecture, tokenization, embeddings,
  • transformers, attention mechanisms, and model limitations.

Data

& Business Translation

  • Translate business
  • requirements into measurable technical solutions and acceptance
  • criteria.
  • Design and optimize data
  • models for SQL and NoSQL databases.
  • Work with Cosmos DB and
  • other scalable data platforms.
  • Collaborate with product,
  • business, and engineering teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.

Azure

AI & Cloud Solutions

Design AI solutions

utilizing:

Azure AI Foundry

Azure AI Search

Azure OpenAI / LLM

Services

Azure Functions

Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Blob Storage

Deploy, monitor,

troubleshoot, and optimize AI applications on Azure.

Profile Description

  • 10+ years of software
  • engineering experience, with 5-6+ years focused on AI, GenAI, LLMs, and
  • cloud-native application development.
  • Strong Python expertise
  • with proven experience in building scalable, maintainable, and
  • well-tested applications.
  • Hands-on experience
  • developing APIs using FastAPI, Pydantic, asynchronous programming, and
  • streaming responses.
  • Proven track record
  • delivering production-grade AI solutions, including deployment,
  • monitoring, troubleshooting, and operational support.

Experience building

  • Agentic AI applications using tool/function calling, structured outputs,
  • workflow orchestration, memory, and state management.
  • Strong understanding of
  • RAG architectures, embeddings, hybrid search, reranking, and retrieval
  • evaluation.
  • Solid foundation in
  • machine learning, statistics, experimentation, and AI model evaluation.
  • Deep understanding of LLM
  • concepts, including tokenization, embeddings, transformers, attention
  • mechanisms, and model limitations.

Experience implementing AI

  • safety, observability, prompt-injection protection, and data governance
  • practices.
  • Hands-on experience with
  • LangGraph or similar orchestration frameworks.
  • Strong knowledge of SQL
  • and NoSQL databases, including Cosmos DB and data modeling best
  • practices.

Experience working with

  • Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, Azure OpenAI, Azure Functions, Blob
  • Storage, and related Azure services.
  • Ability to translate
  • business requirements into measurable outcomes and scalable technical
  • solutions.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD,
  • Agile/Scrum methodologies, and modern software engineering practices.
  • Strong problem-solving,
  • communication, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills.
  • Demonstrates ownership,
  • continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and a passion for engineering
  • excellence.
  • Exposure to Polars, Kedro,
  • Grafana, advanced data engineering, and advanced machine learning
  • techniques is a plus.
  • Nice to have

Competencies

Working experience in a SAFe

environment is a plus.

Experience working with European

clients

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