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Posted 19 June, 2026

GEN AI Engineer

Johnson Electric
Chennai, TN, IN Full Time
Reference: 3e4225c8a0f0067e

Job Description

Gen-AI Engineer\n\nAbout US\nJohnson Electric is one of the world’s largest providers of motion solutions, supplying nearly every major brand in automotive, industrial, and consumer markets. Our Smart Factory initiative leverages advanced analytics, AI and IIoT to drive zero-defect quality, lights-out manufacturing, and sustainable operations across 30+ plants on five continents.\nYou will be joining a high-impact, hands-on CoE team that owns the full analytical stack: from edge data acquisition and cloud ingestion to model deployment and smart factory adoption.\nBoth roles will be cross-trained. Gen-AI specialists will learn industrial ML, and ML engineers will gain exposure to generative AI toolchains.\n\nGen-AI Engineer\n\nOwn the end-to-end Gen AI technology stack for Johnson Electric.

Design, build and govern reusable toolchains, unlock new use-cases and establish DevOps and MLOps best practices that can scale.\nKey Responsibilities\nArchitecture and Strategy\nDefine Gen-AI architecture blueprints, design guidelines, and model-cards aligning with JE data privacy, OT-IT convergence and cost models.\nEstablish enterprise patterns for RAG, model fine-tuning, agentic workflows, security isolation, and cost governance.\nPlatform Delivery\nBuild and operate a reusable Gen-AI platform on Azure (AKS, AzureML, Azure OpenAI) provisioned via IaC (Terraform/Bicep) and managed through DevOps pipelines such as Azure DevOps.\nIntegrate and orchestrate Gen-AI building blocks – commercial & open-source LLM APIs, MCP tooling, frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex, vector databases, Azure AI Search indexes.\nProductionize New Use Cases\nPartner with functional SMEs (quality, maintenance, logistics, R&D) to transform high-value ideas into production Gen-AI solutions.\nGuide teams through the full GenAI application lifecycle: problem framing, data acquisition, prompt and model design, human-in-the-loop validation, deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement.\nDocument reusable patterns and feed lessons learned back into the platform backlog to accelerate subsequent use-case onboarding.\n\nQualifications\n5+ years in Data / AI engineering, 2+ years specifically building or productizing Gen-AI / LLM solutions in production.\nDeep understanding of LangChain / LlamaIndex (RAG, Agentic workflows).\nExpert in prompt engineering, agentic concepts, memory, and tool management\nStrong coding skills in Python (FastAPI, asyncio, Pydantic) and at least one typed language (Java, C#, or Go).\nExperience in Machine Learning preferably in manufacturing / IoT / edge AI.\nExpert in Azure Cloud Services for AI or equivalent.\nHands-on with Docker/Kubernetes, GPU containers, CUDA drivers, and performance profiling.\nProven experience translating business value metrics into technical architecture.\nExcellent stakeholder communication; able to navigate between OT, IT, cyber-security, and business teams.\nFluency with DevOps & IaC (Azure DevOps, Terraform / Bicep, GitHub Actions).

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