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AI Architect at KnackLabs · Hyderabad · 7 - 10 years · ₹25L - ₹35L / yr · Bootstrapped · Posted 31 Aug 2026

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Posted by Stuti Jain
7 - 10 yrs
₹25L - ₹35L / yr
Hyderabad
Skills
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
skill iconAmazon Web Services (AWS)

Location: Hyderabad, India. Based at the KnackLabs headquarters, with occasional travel to client locations for workshops and reviews. This role does not involve extended onsite deployments.

About the Role

You will work as an AI Architect who designs the systems behind our client engagements: AI agents, RAG systems, automation platforms, and the conventional backend systems around them.

This is a hands-on design role, not a slideware role. You will scope architectures with clients, make the hard technical decisions, defend them in review, and stay accountable for how the systems perform in production.


You will work directly with clients. Everyone at KnackLabs does. You will sit in design discussions with client engineering teams, present architecture decisions to technical and business stakeholders, and answer for the choices you make.


A full KnackLabs engineering team in Hyderabad builds with you. You own the technical design and the quality of what ships.

What you'll own

  1. Architecture - Design AI agents, RAG systems, integrations, and the scalable backend systems around them, for multiple client engagements.
  2. Technical scoping - Work directly with clients to turn a business problem into a system design, with clear trade-offs and clear reasons.
  3. Scale and reliability - Make sure what we build handles real load: data stores, queues, caching, horizontal scaling, and fault tolerance.
  4. Design reviews - Review designs and builds across engagements. Set the technical bar and hold it.
  5. Evaluation strategy - Define how we measure accuracy, safety, latency, and cost for the AI systems we ship.
  6. Guiding engineers - Raise the level of the engineers building with you, through reviews and direct pairing.
  7. Feedback to the platform - Feed what you learn across engagements back into our platform and internal tools.

What we are looking for

  1. Around 7 or more years of software engineering experience, including direct work with customers on design or delivery.
  2. Full-stack development experience with strength in backend technologies.
  3. Experience designing and building scalable applications. You understand how large-scale distributed systems work: data partitioning, queues, caching, horizontal scaling, and fault tolerance.
  4. At least 2 years of strong, hands-on AI experience with large language models in production.
  5. You build with AI coding tools like Claude Code or Codex as your default way of working. You understand Claude Skills, have written skills yourself, use them actively, and have contributed to them.
  6. Hands-on experience building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems: chunking, embeddings, vector databases, retrieval, and reranking.
  7. Hands-on experience building AI agents.
  8. Strong programming skills in Python. Working knowledge of TypeScript or JavaScript.
  9. Experience with at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
  10. Clear communication. You can explain an architecture decision to an engineer and to a business leader, and defend it under questioning.
  11. High ownership and comfort with ambiguity. You can take an unclear problem and turn it into a design.

Nice to have

  1. Experience building evaluations to measure accuracy, safety, latency, and cost.
  2. Experience with observability and tracing tools such as LangSmith or Braintrust.
  3. Experience with on-premises or private cloud (VPC) deployments.
  4. Experience deploying AI systems in regulated industries such as insurance, banking, or the public sector.
  5. Experience with data engineering and pipelines.
  6. A history of side projects, open source contributions, or products you shipped end-to-end.
  7. Experience working at a consulting or professional services firm in a client-facing delivery role.

Stack and tools

  1. Languages: Python and TypeScript.
  2. Models: Claude and other frontier or open-source models, chosen to fit the customer.
  3. AI patterns: RAG, agents, prompt engineering, skills, and evaluations.
  4. Vector and retrieval: vector databases and retrieval pipelines.
  5. Cloud: AWS, Azure, or GCP, on public or private cloud.
  6. Integration: REST APIs and enterprise system connectors.


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About KnackLabs

Founded :
2017
Type :
Services
Size :
100-1000
Stage :
Bootstrapped

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Knacklabs.ai is Product Development Studio. WE BUILD TRUE PRODUCT TEAMS for our clients. Each team is a small, well-balanced group of geeks and a product manager that together produce relevant and high-quality products. We use data to make decisions, bringing big data and analysis to software development. We believe the product development process is broken as most studios operate as IT Services. We operate like a software factory that applies manufacturing principles of product development to the software.

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  10. Experience with at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
  11. Experience building evaluations to measure accuracy, safety, latency, and cost.
  12. Clear communication. You can explain a technical choice to an engineer and to a business leader.
  13. High ownership and comfort with ambiguity. You can take an unclear problem and turn it into a plan.
  14. Willingness to work onsite at client locations in India for extended periods, and to travel as the work needs.

Nice to have

  1. Experience deploying AI systems in regulated industries such as insurance, banking, or the public sector.
  2. Experience with on-premises or private cloud (VPC) deployments.
  3. Experience with observability and tracing tools such as LangSmith or Braintrust.
  4. Experience with data engineering and pipelines.
  5. A history of side projects, open source contributions, or products you shipped end-to-end.
  6. Experience in embedded or forward-deployed roles before.

Stack and tools

  1. Languages: Python and TypeScript.
  2. Models: Claude and other frontier or open source models, chosen to fit the customer.
  3. AI patterns: RAG, agents, prompt engineering, and evaluations.
  4. Vector and retrieval: vector databases and retrieval pipelines.
  5. Cloud: AWS, Azure, or GCP, on public or private cloud.
  6. Integration: REST APIs and enterprise system connectors.


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EMB Global
Rishu Dutta
Posted by Rishu Dutta
Gurugram
7 - 12 yrs
₹20L - ₹50L / yr
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Agentic AI
Multi-agent Systems

Role Overview 

We are looking for an AI Engineer to design, build, and ship production AI systems, including agentic AI applications, for enterprise clients. This is a hands-on engineering role: you will write production code, build and evaluate models and agents, and work closely with architects and product teams to take solutions from prototype to scale. 


Key Responsibilities 

Design and build agentic AI systems: agent workflows, tool/function-calling, memory, and human-in-the-loop patterns. Build and productionise RAG pipelines, prompt-based applications, and LLM integrations across providers. Develop and maintain data and ML pipelines: feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and monitoring. Integrate AI systems with enterprise applications (CRMs, ERPs, ITSM tools) via APIs, events, and MCP-based tool servers. Implement guardrails, prompt-injection defences, and evaluation frameworks to keep AI systems safe and reliable in production. 

Write clean, tested, production-grade code and participate actively in code and design reviews. 

Collaborate with architects, product managers, and delivery teams to translate requirements into working AI solutions. Troubleshoot and optimise AI systems for accuracy, latency, and cost in production. 


Required Qualifications 

8–12 years of hands-on software engineering experience, with a strong, unbroken technical track record. Hands-on experience building and shipping AI/ML systems in production, not just POCs. 

Practical experience with agentic AI systems and at least one major agent framework (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenAI Agents SDK, Bedrock Agents/Strands, or Semantic Kernel). 

Experience with LLM/GenAI systems: RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, structured outputs, and tool calling across providers. 

Strong Python skills (TypeScript/Node.js a plus), with production-grade testing, CI/CD, and API design practices. Working knowledge of ML fundamentals: model evaluation, feature engineering, and experimentation. Cloud-native experience on AWS and/or Azure: containers, serverless, event backbones, and vector databases. Understanding of LLM safety and reliability practices: guardrails, prompt-injection defences, and observability. 



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Beyond Technologies Private Limited
Remote only
3 - 6 yrs
₹12L - ₹18L / yr
skill iconPython
Agentic AI

Job Title: Full Stack AI Engineer

Location: Remote/Hyderabad

Experience Level: 3-5

Salary Range: 12-18LPA

Application Link:https://beyond.ciltriq.com/apply/BUILD


Description:

Join a team building AI-powered systems that solve complex business problems and automate operational workflows across document processing, voice agents, enterprise integrations, workflow automation, and multi-agent systems.


Strong full-stack foundations: frontend state management, asynchronous user experiences and performance; backend API design, authentication, data modelling, databases, queues and distributed systems.


Strong coding ability in Python and JavaScript or TypeScript, with practical experience in modern frontend frameworks and backend services.


Requirements:

- Design and build complete systems: frontend applications, backend services, APIs, databases, data pipelines and integrations with customer systems.

- Build multi-agent workflows with clear agent responsibilities, tool access, shared state, context management, routing, handoffs and coordination across sequential and parallel tasks.

- Make agent execution dependable through durable state, checkpoints, retries, timeouts, idempotency, recovery and human approval or review where needed.

- Deliver document-processing pipelines, voice agents and retrieval-based AI applications, connecting model outputs to useful actions in real business workflows.

- Own quality in production: automated tests, AI evaluations, guardrails, observability, access controls, deployments, incident response and clear documentation.

- Choose where AI adds value and where deterministic software is the better fit. Balance accuracy, latency, cost, security and maintainability.

- Improve reusable engineering foundations, review code and help other engineers grow as the team expands.

- A solid understanding of tool calling, structured outputs, retrieval, context and memory management, model selection and evaluation.

- Practical cloud and deployment experience, including containers, CI/CD, secrets management, logging, monitoring and production debugging.

- Ability to reason from first principles, investigate failures across system boundaries and communicate technical decisions clearly to customers and teammates.

- Useful additional experience: Document AI and OCR, real-time voice systems, enterprise integrations, agent protocols such as MCP, and orchestration frameworks.

- Useful additional experience: Mentoring engineers or building reusable platforms.

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The industry’s only Manufacturing Operating System
The industry’s only Manufacturing Operating System
Agency job
via Cutshort Lightning by Ariba Khan
Hyderabad
10 - 15 yrs
Best in industry
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Generative AI (GenAI)
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Large Language Models (LLM)

We’re on hunt for AI Architect


Responsibilities:

  • 10–15+ years overall experience, with recent hands-on AI/GenAI architecture ownership.
  • Must have architected enterprise AI platforms/solutions end-to-end, not just individual ML models or PoCs.
  • Strong GenAI/LLM production experience: RAG, embeddings, vector DBs, hybrid search, reranking, evaluation, guardrails.
  • Strong Agentic AI understanding: agents, tool calling, workflows, orchestration, human-in-the-loop.
  • Experience taking AI solutions from architecture → production → scale, ideally across multiple business teams/use cases.
  • Strong cloud architecture — Azure/AWS preferred; hybrid/on-prem experience is a plus.
  • Must understand enterprise security, governance, Responsible AI, observability and LLMOps/MLOps.
  • Should be able to articulate build-vs-buy, MVP-vs-target architecture, cost/performance/security tradeoffs.
  • Strong stakeholder-facing / consulting ability — can work with business leaders, engineering, security and data teams and influence without authority.


There is scope to move to the US for this role if you are aligned for the same, else this will be a WFO role from Hyderabad location

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Remote only
1 - 4 yrs
₹8L - ₹14L / yr
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Agentic AI
Multi-agent Systems
AI Agents
Design thinking
+2 more

Build AI where the work actually happens.

Celeco works inside real businesses to understand critical workflows, ship production AI systems and stay through adoption.

We are hiring our first Intelligence Architect (Forward-Deployed AI Engineer).

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Full-time · Remote-first · Optional hybrid in Bengaluru

At least one year of professional engineering experience. Customer travel when the work requires it.


The role

An Intelligence Architect enters a customer environment with an unfinished question and leaves behind a working, measurable system.

This is a hands-on engineering role at the boundary of product, operations and customer delivery. You will learn the domain, inspect the existing systems and data, decide what should be built, and write the code that puts it into production.

What you will own

  • Interview and shadow the people doing the work, then map the real workflow, including hand-offs, exceptions and workarounds.
  • Understand the customer's application stack, APIs, data, identity model, security constraints and deployment environment.
  • Turn business goals into a technical scope, system design, delivery plan and measures of success.
  • Build across the stack: AI workflows, data pipelines, integrations, backend services and the interfaces people use.
  • Choose the simplest reliable approach. The answer may combine agents, retrieval, rules and conventional software.
  • Create evals from representative cases, define quality and failure metrics, inspect traces, red-team the system and set launch thresholds.
  • Make practical trade-offs across accuracy, latency, cost, privacy, security and speed.
  • Take prototypes into production with tests, monitoring, access controls, documentation and a plan for failure and recovery.
  • Work beside customer teams during rollout and improve the system until it becomes part of the workflow.
  • Turn what works into reusable components, evaluation sets and playbooks for future Celeco deployments.


You will probably thrive here if

  • You have at least one year of professional software or product engineering experience.
  • You have shipped a real system used by other people and can explain what you owned, what broke and what you changed.
  • You are strong in Python or TypeScript and comfortable moving across unfamiliar codebases, APIs, databases and cloud services.
  • You have built with language or multimodal models and understand prompting, structured outputs, retrieval, tool use and model failure modes.
  • You use Cursor, Codex, Claude Code or similar tools as part of your engineering workflow, while still reviewing, testing and understanding the code you ship.
  • You can create an evaluation set, choose useful quality metrics and improve a system through error analysis instead of prompt guesswork.
  • You can speak with an operator, an engineering team and a senior leader without losing the thread of the problem.
  • You work well with incomplete requirements, write clearly and surface risks early.
  • You care about whether people use what you build and whether it changes a business outcome.
  • You can commit full-time and travel to customer sites when discovery or rollout is better done in person.

Experience with cloud deployment, containers, CI/CD, observability, enterprise integrations, authentication or security is useful. We do not expect one person to arrive knowing every framework, cloud or industry.


What you will get

  • Direct ownership of live customer problems from discovery through production.
  • Close collaboration with Celeco's founders and customer leadership teams.
  • Exposure to different industries, operating models and technical environments.
  • The freedom to choose the technical approach and the responsibility to prove that it works.
  • A role in defining Celeco's engineering methods, reusable systems and technical culture while the company is early.
  • A remote-first setup, with the option to work together in Bengaluru.


If the work sounds like you but your background is unconventional, apply. We care more about what you have built, how you think and how quickly you learn than pedigree.

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