Lead AI Engineer – Artificial Intelligence

Company overview Accordion is a global financial consulting and technology firm helping CFOs and their teams drive value creation. Rooted in private equity rigor and powered by data, analytics, and AI, we partner with companies across industries to turn insight into impact. Accordion works at the intersection of Private Equity sponsors and portfolio companies' management teams across every stage of the investment lifecycle. We provide hands-on, execution-oriented support, driving value through the office of the CFO by building data and analytics capabilities and identifying and implementing strategic work, rooted in data, analytics and AI. Accordion is headquartered in New York City with 10 offices worldwide, including the India office based out of Hyderabad. Join us and make your mark on our company. Data & Analytics Accordion's Data & Analytics (D&A) practice in India delivers cutting-edge, intelligent solutions to a global clientele, leveraging a blend of domain knowledge, sophisticated technology tools, and deep analytics capabilities to tackle complex business challenges. We partner with Private Equity clients and their Portfolio Companies across diverse sectors, including Retail, CPG, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, Technology, and Logistics. D&A team members deliver data and analytical solutions designed to streamline reporting capabilities and enhance business insights across vast and complex data sets ranging from Sales, Operations, Marketing, Pricing, Customer Strategies, and more. Working at Accordion in India means joining 800+ analytics, data science, finance, and technology experts in a high-growth, agile, and entrepreneurial environment to transform how portfolio companies drive value. It also means making your mark on Accordion's future—by embracing a culture rooted in collaboration and a firm-wide commitment to building something great, together. Join us and experience a better way to work! Location: Hyderabad, Telangana Role Overview Accordion is looking for experienced AI Engineers to join our new AI-augmented delivery pods: purpose-built teams that combine AI engineering, data science, and product management to transform how PE-backed companies run finance and operations. You will work with clients and cross-functional delivery pod teammates contributing to the design, development and maintenance of AI solutions that address complex business challenges for clients globally and continuously raise the bar on what AI-assisted delivery looks like. In this role, you will be actively involved in AI solution architecture design, work hands-on with large language models, RAG pipelines, and multi-agent frameworks, contribute across the MEAN/MERN stack and guide a team of Associates — gaining practical depth across the full AI product engineering lifecycle, from discovery through production. What You will do: Propose AI solution architecture to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with engineering standards