NeGD AI/ML Lead Recruitment 2026 – Apply Online

The National e-Governance Division operates under the Digital India Corporation, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, supporting MeitY in programme management and implementation of e-Governance projects. This recruitment aims to fill AI/ML Lead positions initially for a period of three years, with possible extensions based on project requirements.

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B.Tech./B.E., M.Tech./M.S. or M.Sc. in Computer Science, AI/ML, Data Science, Electronics or a related discipline Advanced degree (M.Tech./M.S./Ph.D.) or published work in the chosen specialisation is highly desirable Certifications are not mandatory; demonstrated work, as listed under Minimum Evidence at Screening, shall carry greater weight Candidates from non-traditional backgrounds with strong verifiable work will be considered in lieu of formal qualification Experience 7+ years developing and deploying AI/ML systems (10+ years preferred); minimum 4 years building systems in the chosen specialisation deployed in production (Agentic AI: minimum 2 years building LLM applications or agents in production) At least 2 years leading a team of engineers or data scientists, including setting technical direction and reviewing their work Demonstrable delivery of at least one system in the chose

The selected AI/ML Lead candidates will handle technical leadership and specialisation responsibilities across multiple domains: 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. 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