NeGD is currently inviting applications for the position of AI/ML Lead on a contractual basis for a period of two years.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, prototyping, and deployment of AI/ML models for NeGD’s Unified AI Delivery Team
• Develop reusable model components for classification, prediction, summarization, or image analytics
• Evaluate open-source and proprietary AI models for fitment to government datasets
• Define model development standards, performance benchmarks, and testing protocols
• Collaborate with MLOps teams to automate model deployment, retraining, and monitoring workflows
• Guide Data Scientists in experiment setup, hyperparameter tuning, and model validation
• Conduct technical reviews and ensure all models meet Responsible AI and data privacy requirements
• Mentor engineering teams in ML algorithms, model evaluation techniques, and ethical AI practices

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About National e-Governance Division (NeGD)

The National e-Governance Division (NeGD) is an independent business division under the Digital India Corporation, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. NeGD has been playing a pivotal role in supporting MeitY in Programme Management and implementation of e-Governance projects and initiatives undertaken by various Ministries/ Departments, both at the Central and State levels.

NeGD has been spearheading several innovative initiatives under the aegis of the Digital India Programme. Those have been developed keeping the vision areas of Digital India at the core- providing digital infrastructure as a core utility to every citizen, governance and services on demand and in particular, digital empowerment of the citizens of our country; some of these initiatives include DigiLocker, UMANG, Poshan Tracker, OpenForge Platform, API Setu, National Academic Depository, Academic Bank of Credits, Learning Management System.