Distinguished AI Engineer

At NTT DATA, we know that with the right people on board, anything is possible. The quality, integrity, and commitment of our employees have been key factors in our company's growth and market presence. By hiring the best people and helping them grow both professionally and personally, we ensure a bright future for NTT DATA and for the people who work here.

For more than 25 years, NTT DATA Services have focused on impacting the core of your business operations with industry-leading outsourcing services and automation. With our industry-specific platforms, we deliver continuous value addition, and innovation that will improve your business outcomes. Outsourcing is not just a method of gaining a one-time cost advantage, but an effective strategy for gaining and maintaining competitive advantages when executed as part of an overall sourcing strategy.

NTT DATA Services currently seeks a Distinguished AI Engineerto join our team in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Role purpose
Set the architecture, engineering standards, platform strategy, and technical governance for enterprise AI and GenAI capabilities. This role guides senior engineering teams and ensures AI platforms are scalable, reusable, observable, cost-efficient, and compliant with enterprise risk expectations.
Primary ownership

• Target-state enterprise AI architecture, reference patterns, and platform guardrails.
• LLMOps, AI gateways, model-serving strategy, evaluation platforms, observability, governance, and operating standards.
• Technical assurance for high-risk or high-impact AI initiatives.

• Define target-state architecture for LLM platforms, model hubs, AI gateways, RAG services, agent frameworks, orchestration layers, and model-serving infrastructure.
• Establish enterprise standards for AI SDLC, LLMOps, MLOps, evaluation, release management, operational resilience, and production support.
• Guide architecture for secure, scalable, and cost-efficient inference across cloud, hybrid, private, and containerized environments.
• Define guardrail patterns for hallucination mitigation, bias monitoring, harmful-content controls, prompt injection defense, data leakage prevention, and human oversight.
• Lead design reviews for critical AI systems and provide technical assurance to architecture and risk forums.
• Partner with cybersecurity, risk, compliance, legal, audit, product, and business teams to align AI designs with enterprise controls.
• Mentor principal engineers and establish reusable design patterns, reference implementations, and engineering playbooks.
• Assess emerging AI technologies and recommend adoption based on business value, maturity, risk, cost, and regulatory fit.

• 10+ years in AI/ML systems, distributed systems, enterprise architecture, or platform engineering.
• Deep experience with LLMs, RAG, embeddings, model serving, AI orchestration, evaluation frameworks, and AI infrastructure.
• Proven track record defining architecture and technical standards across multiple engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of distributed training, GPU infrastructure, inference optimization, observability, model governance, and resiliency.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and operate across business, technology, risk, compliance, and architecture forums.

• Global bank, fintech, financial-services, or regulated-enterprise platform experience.
• Experience with enterprise AI platforms, private LLM deployments, internal model hubs, AI gateways, or multi-cloud AI strategy.
• Familiarity with Responsible AI, model risk management, audit expectations, and technology risk controls.

About NTT DATA Services:

NTT DATA Services is a recognized leader in IT and business services, including cloud, data and applications, headquartered in Texas. As part of NTT DATA, a $30 billion trusted global innovator with a combined global reach of over 80 countries, we help clients transform through business and technology consulting, industry and digital solutions, applications development and management, managed edge-to-cloud infrastructure services, BPO, systems integration and global data centers. We are committed to our clients' long-term success. Visit nttdata.com or LinkedIn to learn more.

NTT DATA Services is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants without regarding to race, color, religion, citizenship, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter so that we may connect you with the appropriate team.

Where required by law, NTT DATA provides a reasonable range of compensation for specific roles. The starting hourly range for this remote role is ($x - x/hourly ). This range reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for the position across all US locations. Actual compensation will depend on several factors, including the candidate's actual work location, relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications.

This position is eligible for company benefits that will depend on the nature of the role offered. Company benefits may include medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending or health savings account, life, and AD&D insurance, short-and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program with company match, and additional voluntary or legally required benefits.