Director of Generative AI Product Engineering

Company Description

We at Publicis Sapient, enable our clients to thrive in Next and to create business value through expert strategies, customer-centric experience design, and world-class product engineering.  

The future of business is disruptive, transformative and becoming digital to the core.

In our 20 + years in IT, never before have we seen such a dire need for transformation in every major industry - from financial services to automotive, consumer products, retail, energy, and travel.

To make this transformative journey a reality in these exciting times, we seek Rockstars who will: 
-    brave it out to go do the next; “what will be” from “what is”
-    exhibit the optimism that says there is no limit to what we can achieve 
-    deeply-skilled, bold, collaborative, flexible
-    Reimagine the way the world works to help businesses improve the daily lives of people and the world. 

Our people thrive because of the belief that it is both our privilege and responsibility to usher our clients and the world into Next.  

Our work is fueled by 
•    Challenging boundaries
•    Multidisciplinary collaboration
•    Highly agile teams
•    The power of the newest technologies and platforms.  

If that’s you, come talk to us!

This is the world-class engineering team where you should build your career.

Job Description

Are you someone who always writes scripts to make your development activities faster/easier? Are you someone who wrote plugins for your team to have super powers? Are you someone who fixed or created Opensource libraries and turbo charged your developer community? Are you someone who has patents in new innovations in algorithms? We’re looking for you!

We are looking for creative minds who will develop software applications that make life easier for teams and clients. Responsible for entire development and support process for a software program. Your applications make previously complex tasks simple with the impact ranging from saving time, effort or money to redefining normal. The focus will be to develop AI products that will be used by the entire organization, develop next generation tools that will redefine SDLC. 

• Apply in-depth knowledge of multiple programming languages, associated frameworks and the tool ecosystem to create elegant AI applications to solve problems.
•  Adopt new languages and new paradigms applying them to the problem domain where they deliver significant benefit.
• Test drive features in applicable programming language and be comfortable with the TDD cycle.
• Write code that is not only functional but is also a work of art, clean, efficient, and maintainable.
• Engage with cross-functional teams to ideate, design, and deliver innovative features and services.
• Stay ahead of the curve by continuously exploring, evaluating, and adopting cutting-edge technologies to enhance development efficiency.
• Shape the wider application landscape leveraging AI.
• Apply distributed programming models (e.g. Actor frameworks) appropriately.
• Model multiple domains, articulating contexts & boundaries and articulate the rationale behind them.
• Be an expert at translating requirements into tasks & code.
• Develop tools that can enable teams to produce high quality code leading to rapid delivery. Ruthlessly pursuing continuous integration and delivery.
• Committing code early and often, with an understanding of version control & branching strategies.
• Implement continuous live testing.
• Implement infrastructure as code.
• Apply understanding of elastic scale and build highly available systems.
• Build manageable code and observe basic hygiene practices.
• Follow the best practices of continuous BDD/ TDD/ Performance/ Security/ Smoke testing.
• Work effectively with my product stakeholders to communicate and translate their needs into improvements in my product.
• Lead group discussions on design within appropriate bounded context
• Support production systems, resolve incidents and perform root cause analysis.
• Debug/find complex problems and support/maintain the software solution.
• Be a recognized contributor/vocal in forums (Eg: Google/MS MVP's)
• Share knowledge and influence with the wider engineering community.
• Mentor and develop those around me.
• Raise the bar of the organization.
• Produce proof of concepts to evaluate new tools
   

Qualifications

Essential Criteria:
•    A demonstrable history of being a hands-on coder, with a portfolio that showcases your prowess.
•    A reputation for writing code and developing applications that have not only earned the respect of your peers but has also left them in awe.
•    The caliber of work that could