NeGD is currently inviting applications for the AI/ML Lead position on a contractual basis, initially for a period of three years, with possible extensions based on project requirements.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Own the technical roadmap of the team’s reusable services, choosing between prompting, retrieval, fine-tuning and smaller specialised models on accuracy, cost, latency and data governance grounds, and documenting the rationale

• Lead in-house engineers and data scientists, review their work, and remain hands-on in code, training and debugging

Specialisation Responsibilities
• NLP & Document AI: OCR, layout analysis and parsing for scanned, handwritten and mixed script documents; extraction, classification, PII redaction, summarisation, similarity and deduplication; retrieval-augmented question answering over rules, circulars and case files, with citations and grounding checks

• Speech AI: speech recognition, synthesis, translation and language identification for Indian languages, including 8 kHz telephone audio and code-mixed speech; assistants on web, WhatsApp, IVR and mobile with retrieval-grounded answers, human hand-off and safe failure; real-time voice pipelines within latency budgets

• Computer Vision: face detection, 1:1 verification, 1:N search, liveness and presentation-attack detection at large scale; tamper, forgery and photo-substitution detection for identity documents and certificates; field-photo and satellite imagery analytics; deployment on server, mobile and edge

• Agentic AI: agents for planning, tool use, memory and multi-agent coordination using LangGraph or equivalent and the Model Context Protocol (MCP); least-privilege tool permissions, human approval for every consequential action, audit trails and rollback; reusable agent templates for drafting, document scrutiny and request routing

Evaluation & Safety

• With the QA Lead, build golden datasets and specialisation-appropriate metrics, set release thresholds, and run subgroup analysis across languages, document types, demographics or acoustic conditions

• With the AI Safety team, test services for prompt injection, presentation attacks, adversarial inputs and leakage of personal data before release

Deployment & Reuse

• Deploy services through the AI platform and gateway, publish them to the service catalogue with documentation and SLAs, and contribute models and evaluation sets to AIKosh Vendor Oversight

• Review designs, code and evaluation evidence of vendor teams, and recommend acceptance or rejection of deliverables

Responsible AI & Privacy

• Apply anonymisation, data minimisation and DPDPA 2023 requirements, with stricter handling for biometric data in Computer Vision, and document models through model cards and evaluation records

Important Links

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.