AI Infrastructure Engineer - Principal FDE

Job Title: AI Infrastructure Engineer - Principal FDE

City: FORT MILL

State/Province: South Carolina

Posting Start Date: 8/7/26

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.

About the Role:

Wipro is building a Forward Deployed AI Engineering team to support an AI-first infrastructure organization. The goal is to embed AI engineers directly across infrastructure teams, build a centralized AI engineering pool that can rapidly solve business problems, and automate manual infrastructure processes wherever possible.

Early AI initiatives on the account have already delivered a 60% reduction in migration effort, a 50% reduction in modernization effort, and an automated vulnerability discovery and remediation pipeline. These engineers are expected to act as transformation catalysts — not traditional developers — using AI as the first approach to solving problems and inspiring the existing engineering teams around them.

Target infrastructure domains

Cloud

Network

Compute

Storage

Database Platforms

Infrastructure Security

Automation

Purpose

Work directly with infrastructure teams to identify opportunities, build AI-powered solutions, automate manual processes, and accelerate engineering productivity.

Key Responsibilities

Embed within infrastructure teams and work closely with business and infrastructure leaders.

Identify automation opportunities independently, without waiting for instructions.

Build AI-assisted solutions using Cursor and GitHub Copilot.

Develop infrastructure automation and build AI workflows and AI agents.

Modernize infrastructure platforms and improve cloud migration efficiency.

Build vulnerability remediation automation.

Demonstrate proof-of-concepts rapidly and deliver measurable productivity improvements.

Mentor existing engineering teams and promote AI adoption across the organization.

Required Skills & Experience

Programming & scripting: Hands on strong Python development, scripting, and APIs.

Infrastructure & cloud: infrastructure engineering, cloud platforms (AWS preferred), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), DevOps, and automation.

AI-assisted engineering: GitHub Copilot, Cursor AI, prompt engineering, LLM-based software development, and AI-assisted coding.

Ways of working: strong problem solving, a self-starter mindset, and excellent communication.

Preferred Skills

Agentic AI workflows and AI orchestration

Infrastructure modernization and platform engineering

Security automation and vulnerability management

FinOps and observability

Cloud migration

Principal FDE (future / escalation profile)

Not part of this hiring wave, but the likely escalation profile as the engagement scales.

End-to-end enterprise AI architecture

Provider trade-offs — Anthropic vs. Bedrock vs. Vertex vs. Azure

AI governance and build-vs-buy decisions

ROI / KPI ownership

Executive presence with CTO / CDO / CFO stakeholders

Mandatory Skills: AI ML Ops Infrastructure .

Experience: 5-8 Years .

The expected compensation for this role ranges from $60,000 to $135,000 .

Final compensation will depend on various factors, including your geographical location, minimum wage obligations, skills, and relevant experience. Based on the position, the role is also eligible for Wipro's standard benefits including a full range of medical and dental benefits options, disability insurance, paid time off (inclusive of sick leave), other paid and unpaid leave options.

Applicants are advised that employment in some roles may be conditioned on successful completion of a post-offer drug screening, subject to applicable state law.

Wipro provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Applications from veterans and people with disabilities are explicitly welcome.

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