GENERATIVE AI ARCHITECT

AI Architect – Enterprise AI & Generative AI ( Remote) - Contractual

Experience: 8+ years

Location: Remote, India

Employment Type: Contractual

Working Hours: 3:00 PM – 12:00 AM IST

Client Engagement: US-based client

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on, client-facing AI Architect to lead the architecture, technical direction, and production implementation of enterprise AI and Generative AI solutions for a US-based client.

You should combine strong software engineering and cloud architecture fundamentals with practical experience building secure, scalable, and reliable AI applications. This role involves end-to-end technical ownership, from solution design and prototyping to production deployment and optimization. It is not a research-only, advisory-only, or prompt-writing position.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end architecture and delivery of AI/ML and Generative AI solutions, from discovery and proof of concept to production rollout.
• Design LLM-powered applications using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), embeddings, vector databases, AI agents, and orchestration frameworks.
• Define data ingestion, chunking, retrieval, grounding, evaluation, and knowledge-refresh strategies.
• Select appropriate AI models and platforms based on quality, latency, cost, security, and operational requirements.
• Design cloud-native architectures, APIs, integrations, identity controls, monitoring, and resilient deployment patterns.
• Create architecture diagrams, technical designs, implementation roadmaps, and technical standards.
• Implement AI quality and safety measures, including hallucination mitigation, guardrails, access controls, and prompt-injection defenses.
• Guide engineering, data, ML, and DevOps teams through implementation, code reviews, troubleshooting, and go-live readiness.
• Lead technical discussions and design reviews with US client stakeholders.
• Establish production monitoring, CI/CD, versioning, incident handling, and performance and cost optimization practices.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in software engineering, AI/ML engineering, data engineering, or technology architecture.
• Proven experience personally architecting and deploying at least one enterprise-grade AI or Generative AI solution into production.
• Strong practical knowledge of LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, orchestration frameworks, and model evaluation.
• Hands-on experience with Python and APIs, including prototyping, code review, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform: Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Understanding of data pipelines, SQL/NoSQL databases, containers, CI/CD, MLOps, and LLMOps.
• Knowledge of enterprise security, privacy, identity and access management, and responsible AI practices.
• Experience independently leading architecture workshops, design reviews, and technical discussions with US clients.
• Excellent written and spoken English, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Availability to work from 3:00 PM to 12:00 AM IST and willingness to accept a contractual engagement.

Preferred Experience

• Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, or Google Vertex AI.
• Azure AI Search or equivalent retrieval tools.
• LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, and agent/tool orchestration.
• Model fine-tuning, predictive ML, document intelligence, multimodal AI, or real-time AI applications.
• Experience in cloud modernization, enterprise integrations, data analytics, or technology consulting.
• Relevant AI/cloud architecture certifications and experience mentoring technical teams.

What Success Looks Like

• Designing secure, scalable, production-ready AI solutions rather than demos or conceptual presentations.
• Making sound technical decisions around feasibility, performance, reliability, cost, and AI risks.
• Taking ownership of architecture decisions and resolving technical blockers with limited supervision.
• Building trust with senior US stakeholders and collaborating effectively with India-based delivery teams.

Contract Details

• Initial engagement: Minimum 3 months, with extension subject to project requirements and performance.
• Working schedule: 3:00 PM – 12:00 AM IST.
• Potential permanent employment: After 18 months, the client may consider direct permanent employment at its sole discretion. Conversion is not guaranteed.

Mandatory Screening Criteria

Candidates should be able to:

• Explain an enterprise AI/GenAI solution they personally architected and deployed, including architecture, scale, evaluation, and business impact.
• Whiteboard an enterprise RAG or agentic solution covering data flow, security, authentication, authorization, monitoring, and cost controls.
• Discuss real-world model-quality issues, hallucinations, privacy risks, incidents, and architectural trade-offs.
• Lead a technical design review with US client stakeholders.
• Confirm acceptance of the working hours and contractual engagement.

Apply only if you have hands-on experience architecting and deploying enterprise AI/GenAI solutions in production.

PRINCIPAL AI ENGINEER @ METADOME.AI

Company Description

Metadome.ai builds frontier AI models that transform text, drawings, and CAD into production-ready, interactive 3D experiences. The company advances a full generative pipeline—text-to-CAD, 2D-to-3D

reconstruction, CAD completion and harmonization, and real-time interactive rendering—engineered for the precision required in the physical world. Its technology currently powers the modernization of

OEM aftersales for more than 30 automotive and heavy-equipment manufacturers worldwide, delivering accurate, scalable, and fast 3D solutions. Metadome.ai’s platform enables shoppable 3D parts, step-by-step repair animations, and a headless API that feeds consistent 3D assets into commerce, dealer, training, and service systems. The broader mission is to allow anyone to move from an idea, drawing, or specification to a production-grade 3D model and beyond in seconds.

Role Description

As a Principal AI Engineer — Generative CAD & 3D, you will lead the design, development, and deployment of advanced AI models that convert text, 2D drawings, and CAD files into engineering-grade 3D content. You will architect end-to-end generative pipelines, including

text-to-CAD, 2D-to-3D reconstruction, CAD completion, and real-time rendering, collaborating closely with product, design, and engineering teams to ship robust production systems. Day-to-day, you will experiment with novel neural network architectures, optimize model performance on large-scale CAD datasets, write high-quality production code, and guide the integration of AI services into customer-facing platforms. You will mentor other engineers, establish best practices for AI development, and contribute to technical strategy and roadmap. This is a full-time, hybrid role based in Bengaluru, with a mix of on-site collaboration and work-from-home flexibility.

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in Computer Science and Software Development, including data structures, algorithms, system design, and production-grade coding in languages such as Python, C++, or similar.
• Deep expertise in Neural Networks and Pattern Recognition, with hands-on experience designing, training, and deploying modern deep learning architectures for complex, high-dimensional data.
• Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP), including working with text encoders, multimodal models, and integrating language understanding into generative workflows.
• Advanced degree (Master’s or PhD) in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience in AI/ML research and engineering.
• Background in 3D geometry, CAD, computer graphics, or related domains, with familiarity in 3D representations, mesh processing, and rendering pipelines.

Looking for an Architect with strong experience in AI and Data Engineering, preferably with hands-on experience in Generative AI (GenAI). Candidates with experience in any cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP) will be considered, 

Senior AI Engineer

Code Generation, Agent Architecture & LLM Systems

📍 Mumbai (On-site) | Full-time | 5+ years

About the Role:

Unico Connect is an AI-first technology partner that builds custom mobile, web, and AI products for clients across multiple geographies.

We are hiring a Senior AI Engineer for a dedicated client engagement focused on building an AI-powered application builder platform - a product where users describe software in plain English and the system generates, previews, and iteratively refines working code.

The mandatory requirement for this role is hands-on production experience shipping LLM-powered systems with agent architectures, with experience in code generation or developer tooling contexts a strong advantage.

The role is product-focused and deeply hands-on. You will own everything between the user's prompt and correct code landing in the project: the agentic loop, code generation pipeline, context management, evaluation suite, and model cost strategy.

You will work alongside the Senior MLOps Engineer who operationalises the infrastructure around your system, and collaborate closely with backend, frontend, and DevOps engineers.

Responsibilities:

Agent Architecture

Design and own the agentic loop for the platform - request interpretation, planning, tool-calling sequence (read file, edit file, run build, search code, install package), and stop conditions.

Make and revisit architectural decisions on single-agent vs. multi-agent designs, including planner/executor splits and dedicated build-repair sub-agents.

Code Generation Pipeline

Own the end-to-end generation flow: task classification, context gathering, planning, targeted edits, verification, and commit.

Implement diff/search-replace-based file editing with fuzzy matching and fallback strategies.

Enforce scope discipline so the agent makes minimal diffs and does not modify code it was not asked to touch.

Self-Repair Loop

Build and tune the automated repair loop that pipes compiler, lint, build, and runtime errors back to the model with retry budgets and model escalation.

This loop is the primary quality lever - the difference between 60-70% and 90%+ build success rates.

Context Management

Build file-relevance retrieval so the agent sees the right files, not the whole codebase: dependency graphs, AST/tree-sitter-based chunking, embeddings, recency signals, and hybrid retrieval.

Implement conversation summarisation and memory for long sessions, and address long-project degradation through codebase summaries and periodic consistency passes.

Own token budgeting and prompt caching strategy.

Prompt Engineering as a Discipline

Own the system prompt and per-task prompt variants (new feature, bug fix, styling change).

Maintain few-shot examples and enforce coding conventions, stack rules, and prohibited behaviours such as no hardcoded secrets and no whole-file rewrites.

Version prompts like code with changelogs and rollback capability.

Evaluation and Quality Measurement

Design and own the evaluation suite: representative test prompts run on every prompt and model change, scored on build success rate, instruction adherence, and output quality including LLM-as-judge and visual/screenshot checks where relevant.

Define regression gates that block quality-degrading changes from shipping.

Treat evals the way engineers treat automated testing: versioned, automated, and tracked over time.

This responsibility is non-negotiable at this level.

Model Strategy and Cost

Design model routing - cheap and fast models for classification and small edits, frontier models for complex generation.

Drive cost optimisation through prompt caching, diff-based edits over full-file rewrites, and tighter context selection.

Track cost per agent run and tokens per task; evaluate new model releases against the eval suite and lead migrations when results justify it.

Safety and Reliability of Agent Behaviour

Defend against prompt injection from user content and fetched web content.

Ensure secrets never appear in generated client code.

Define what the agent's tools may and may not do in collaboration with the platform team.

Contribute to output moderation and abuse-pattern awareness.

Mentorship and Engineering Standards

Run code reviews, define engineering conventions for AI work, and raise the engineering bar across the AI team.

Work closely with the Senior MLOps Engineer on handoff of eval design, prompt configurations, and model routing logic.

Requirements:

Hands-on Production Ownership of LLM-Powered Systems with Agent Architectures (Mandatory)

Must have personally shipped and operated at least one complex production AI system - agentic, multi-step, or code generation - with end-to-end ownership of architecture, evaluation, and cost.

POCs, internal demos, and tutorial-grade work do not qualify.

5+ Years of Professional Software or AI Engineering Experience

With at least 3 years focused on LLM applications, AI engineering, or production AI systems.

Candidates with strong backend backgrounds and a clear, substantive pivot into LLM systems qualify.

Strong Python Proficiency and Service Development

Production-grade Python with FastAPI or equivalent: type hints, async patterns, streaming responses, testing, and packaging.

Not notebook-only.

Depth Across LLM APIs and Agent Systems

Production experience with at least two of OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, or open-weight models (vLLM, Ollama, Together).

Production experience with at least one agent framework (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, LlamaIndex Agents) or hand-rolled equivalent.

Hands-on with tool calling, structured outputs, and multi-step reasoning.

Demonstrated, Systematic Evaluation Practice - Non-Negotiable

Must have built evaluation harnesses that gate production releases, not ad-hoc testing.

Hands-on with at least one of LangSmith, Langfuse, Promptfoo, Ragas, or DeepEval.

Candidates with no systematic answer to evaluation should not be considered at senior level regardless of other strengths.

Cost Discipline for Production AI

Track record of measurable cost optimisation on production AI features.

Able to speak in specifics: cost per request, savings achieved through caching or model routing, context reduction decisions.

AWS Working Knowledge

Hands-on with EC2, S3, IAM, and Docker.

Comfort with CI/CD workflows and deploying AI services.

Awareness of LLM Security Failure Modes

Familiar with prompt injection patterns, understands that system prompt rules alone are insufficient, and has experience with output validation and content safety in production.

Nice to Have

• Experience with AST/tree-sitter tooling, diff-based editing systems, or compiler-adjacent work
• MCP server authoring
• Open-source AI contributions
• Published technical writing on LLM systems
• Multi-modal model experience
• Fine-tuning exposure (LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT)

Strong Lead AI Engineer Profile with agentic systems architecture expertise

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Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 6+ years of software or ML engineering, with at least recent 2+ years building and shipping production LLM or agentic AI systems

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Mandatory (Tech skill 1): Must have hands-on proficiency with at least two agentic frameworks (LangGraph, LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI), with experience debugging framework internals

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Mandatory (Tech skill 2): Must have direct SDK experience with Anthropic Claude API (tool use, streaming), OpenAI Assistants API, or Vertex AI Agent Builder

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Mandatory (Tech skill 3): Must have Python mastery — production-quality code, type annotations, unit and integration tests, packaging, and performance profiling

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Mandatory (Tech skill 4): Must have RAG pipeline depth — embedding model selection, vector stores (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector), hybrid retrieval, RAGAS or custom evaluation harnesses

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Mandatory (Tech skill 5): Must have cloud deployment experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP; Docker, Kubernetes, IaC basics (Terraform or CDK), and CI/CD pipelines

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Mandatory (Tech skill 6): Must have agent observability experience — LangSmith, Helicone, or equivalent — with ability to diagnose latency, cost, and quality issues in production traces

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Mandatory (Tech skill 8) : Must have owned full sub-system designs — agent topology, data flows, API contracts, failure handling — for a bounded scope, and built multi-agent graphs, tool orchestration, retrieval, and memory systems.

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Mandatory (Tech skill 7): Must have track record of shipping 2+ agentic or ML systems to production — not just proof-of-concepts — with documented performance benchmarks

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Mandatory (Communication): Must be able to write crisp component specifications and communicate architectural trade-offs to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders

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Mandatory (Note 1) : Role is Hybrid, WFH flexibility as well upto 6 days a month

Read This Before Anything Else

We have 6 developers who can ship. What we don't have is someone who turns that into a real engineering function: real architecture, real leverage, real AI-driven advantage. If that gap sounds like an opportunity rather than a headache, you're in the right place. If it sounds like a lot of undefined work with no playbook handed to you, this one probably isn't for you. That's completely okay. There are plenty of great roles that fit differently.

About CraftMyPlate

CraftMyPlate is Hyderabad's go-to platform for food experiences for micro-events: house parties, birthdays, office celebrations, festive gatherings, and more. We're building the operating system for how India discovers, customises, and orders food for smaller events. We're backed by established founders and investors, and we're funded and growing fast. The next phase of that growth runs through engineering.

Where We Stand

Some numbers, because they matter more than adjectives. Order volume has grown 50x in two years, and we're compounding at roughly 3x year over year, without giving up equity to fund it. That means the business runs on its own economics. The growth is real demand, not runway bought with dilution, and every efficient architectural decision this role makes directly protects that.

Most people size up an opportunity by asking what's going to change in ten years. The more useful question, and the one this company is built around, is what won't change. People will keep gathering. They'll keep celebrating, hosting, and marking festivals, in 10 years and in 20. That permanence is the bet. You're not building infrastructure for a trend cycle. You're building for a category that outlasts the current AI wave, the next funding round, and probably us too.

The Technical Reality

Here's an honest read of the engineering problem, not a sanitized version of it.

Event-driven commerce doesn't scale like typical e-commerce. Demand isn't smooth, it's spiky: weekends, festival calendars, and event dates create real load concentration, and each order is tied to a hard deadline that can't slip the way a shipped package can. That has direct architectural consequences: systems need to handle bursty, unpredictable traffic without paying for idle capacity the rest of the time, which is exactly why we're serverless-first on AWS rather than running a fixed fleet sized for peak.

Underneath that, every order touches multiple systems that have to stay consistent: kitchen and vendor fulfillment status, inventory across partners, payment gateway settlement, and refunds, often in real time and often across more than one vendor for a single event. Getting that consistency right across SQL and NoSQL stores, without it becoming a source of support tickets and manual reconciliation, is a real architecture problem, not a CRUD problem.

The AI-agent layer is the next lever, and it's a business lever as much as a technical one. Every workflow we can hand to a well-orchestrated agent instead of a new hire is a workflow that scales without adding headcount, which is exactly how a company grows 3x a year without diluting equity to fund the team behind it. That's why agent orchestration across multiple LLMs, using LangGraph, sits in the "go deep" tier of this role rather than being a nice-to-have.

You'll likely find some of this framing right and some of it worth challenging once you're actually in the codebase. That's expected, and honestly preferred over someone who just nods along.

Why This Role Exists

You'll be the most senior technical person in the company, reporting directly to the founder. Not a manager brought in to run standups. An owner. You set the architecture, you write code yourself, and you make the team materially better. You also own where AI and automation take this company next, starting with our first in-house AI agent product (details shared in the interview), and expanding from there into how the company runs, department by department: HR, finance, marketing, design, development, all sitting on an engineering layer that you design.

If you've outgrown a role where you plan but don't build, or where good ideas die in a committee, this is built to be the opposite of that.

What You'll Own

• Architecture, end to end. Scalable, cost-efficient systems from day one, not "fix it later" engineering. You own the decisions and their long-term consequences.
• Hands-on building. You are still writing code and shipping. This isn't a seat where you review other people's work all day. You lead by building.
• The engineering team. Directly manage, mentor, and level up our 6 developers. Build the technical bar, the review culture, and the calibration that lets the team ship independently.
• The AI-agent roadmap. Own the architecture behind our first AI agent product, then the broader strategy for AI agents and automation across every function in the company, with engineering as the layer underneath all of it.
• Team scaling. Build the next layer of leads under you so execution quality scales without you being the bottleneck.
• Technical accountability. When something breaks, you fix it. You don't escalate and wait.

Our Stack, and the Depth We Expect

Not everything on this list needs the same level of mastery. Some of it you need to own at an architectural level. The rest you need to be strong enough to build yourself, direct the team on, or delegate to AI agents with confidence.

Go deep here. This is where the real architecture decisions live, and where the business impact is highest:

• AWS, serverless first. You should be genuinely well versed in AWS application development, not just "have used AWS." You should be able to design and guide serverless architecture (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions, and similar) as our default way of building, because our demand curve is spiky by nature and fixed infrastructure is money left on the table.
• TypeScript, our primary language across backend and frontend.
• Agent orchestration across multiple LLMs, using LangGraph. This is core to our AI roadmap and our path to scaling operations without scaling headcount. You own how it's architected, not just how it's used.

Working proficiency. Build it yourself, direct the team, or hand it to an AI agent and know if the output is right.

This Is You If

• You've built and shipped real production systems yourself, not just reviewed other people's architecture from a distance.
• You go deep wherever the problem is, and you're comfortable owning the exact stack described above, not just "full-stack" in the abstract.
• You've made engineers around you measurably better, whether or not you've held the title for it yet.
• You're already using AI coding tools and agents seriously, like Claude, Cursor, or similar tools, as part of how you build, not as something you tried once. We'll likely explore this together in the interview.
• You have a bias toward leverage over hours. You'd rather automate or systematize a problem than grind through it. But when something's live and needs to be done right, you see it through completely, with no half-finished work.
• You want to build something for years, not land somewhere comfortable. We'll know the difference from how you talk about your last three years.

This Might Not Be the Right Fit If

• You'd prefer a stable, well-defined role with clear boundaries and someone else making the calls. That's a fair thing to want, just not what this is.
• You'd rather receive direction than bring us architecture and AI strategy yourself.
• You haven't yet gotten hands-on with AI coding tools in your daily work.
• You're drawn more to the title than the work behind it.

If none of that sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.

Requirements

• 5 to 7 years of experience in software engineering, with real ownership of architecture-level decisions, not just feature delivery.
• Prior experience leading or mentoring engineers, formally or informally.
• Tier-1 or Tier-1+ engineering college strongly preferred (IIT, BITS, top NIT tier, or equivalent). We'll consider other institutions only with clearly commendable, verifiable work: real systems you can walk us through in depth, strong open-source contributions, or a track record that speaks for itself. Pedigree is a proxy for speed, not a checkbox. We test for the underlying ability regardless.
• Comfortable in an early-stage environment: undefined problems, few processes, and the expectation that you help define both.

Compensation

Competitive, with equity. We're formalizing a structured ESOP program alongside this hire. Specific numbers are discussed directly in later interview rounds.

If reading this got you a little excited about what you'd build here, we'd genuinely love to talk. If it didn't quite land, no hard feelings. We just want the right fit for both sides.

Strong Senior AI Engineer Profile with production-grade LLM and Python expertise

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Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have at least 3+ years of professional AI/ML engineering experience with demonstrated track record of delivering production-grade AI systems in real-world environments

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Mandatory (Tech skill 1): Must have strong programming skills in Python and SQL, with hands-on ML/data libraries (scikit-learn, pandas, numpy) and deep-learning frameworks (PyTorch or TensorFlow), plus REST API design

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Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have hands-on experience building and deploying production-grade ML/LLMs including RAG pipelines, document parsing, information extraction, and text processing on large-scale unstructured data (preprocessing, chunking, embeddings, feature engineering)

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Mandatory (Tech skill 2): Must have strong NLP / extraction-focused ML depth — transformers, embeddings, vector databases, RAG, LLM integrations, and agentic workflows.

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Mandatory (Tech skill 3): Must have hands-on experience with AWS (SageMaker, Bedrock, EC2, Lambda) and Azure (AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI) for model training, fine-tuning, deployment, and inference at scale

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Mandatory (Tech skill 4): Must have experience with multi-agentic frameworks / orchestration tools (Claude Code, LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI)

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Mandatory (Tech skill 5): Must have hands-on experience with MLOps ecosystem including experiment tracking (MLflow, Weights & Biases), model versioning/registry, automated retraining, and CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes)

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Mandatory (Tech skill 6): Must have experience with evaluation frameworks (precision, recall, F1, field-level accuracy) and iterative model improvement, plus AI observability (Prometheus, Grafana, SLOs).

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Mandatory (Team Leadership): Must have experience leading projects or teams, managing technical deliverables, and mentoring, with strong problem-solving in ambiguous challenges

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Mandatory (Education) - B.Tech or B.E. If graduated in BCA or BCS, they should have a Maters or Post graduation

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Mandatory (Company): B2B Tech/Consulting/B2B Software

Solid product experience and an educational background from Tier‑1 universities are preferred.

As a Senior AI Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and delivering highly scalable, next generation AI products within our AI stack. You will work in a technically rich environment with talented peers, contributing to product planning, design, and execution while influencing the evolution of Teradata’s AI capabilities. 

In this role, you will: 

• Design, develop, and maintain high quality systems, services, and applications with an emphasis on scalability, reliability, and performance. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineers and product partners to shape design and consistently deliver end to end features. 
• Build and integrate robust RESTful APIs, ensuring security, data consistency, and maintainability. 
• Work with SQL and NoSQL databases to implement efficient data models and service access patterns. 
• Apply and experiment with AI/ML technologies, including agentic AI and large language models (LLMs). 
• Use AI powered engineering tools to improve development quality, speed, and productivity. 
• Mentor engineers, supporting them in technical planning, implementation, and best practices. 
• Identify and resolve system performance bottlenecks, optimizing code, design, and infrastructure. 
• Write unit and integration tests and participate in code reviews to uphold engineering excellence. 
• Investigate production issues, ensuring timely and effective solutions. 
• Stay current with emerging trends in engineering, AI/ML, and cloud-native technologies. 

Who You’ll Work With 

You will be part of a high-performing engineering team building core components of Teradata’s AI platform. You will collaborate closely with other engineers, AI/ML specialists, product managers, cloud architects, and partner teams across the company. The role offers opportunities to contribute directly to Teradata’s AI product roadmap and technological direction. 

What Makes You a Qualified Candidate 

(Nonnegotiable qualifications) 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent from a recognized institution. 
• 5+ years of experience in backend services, distributed systems, or data platform development. 
• Strong proficiency in Java, Go, or Python for service development. 
• Good understanding of design principles, distributed system patterns, and service framework. 
• Hands-on experience designing and developing RESTful APIs. 
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and data modelling. 
• Strong debugging, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills. 
• Experience with modern containerization and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes. 
• Knowledge of public cloud platforms. 
• Experience with AI productivity tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot). 
• Ability to work independently, drive workstreams, and deliver high quality outcomes. 
• Strong communication and collaboration skills. 

What You’ll Bring 

(Preferred qualifications) 

• Familiarity with messaging systems such as Kafka. 
• Experience experimenting with or implementing AI/ML technologies, Agentic AI, or LLMs. 
• A track record of influencing design decisions and driving engineering best practices. 
• The ability to mentor engineers and guide them through design, planning, and execution. 
• A proactive mindset and comfort working in fast paced, dynamic environments. 
• Curiosity, adaptability, and a passion for building impactful AI-driven products. 

Chief Engineer - Artificial Intelligence

AI Architecture | Production Engineering | LLM, RAG & Agentic AI

Primary objective: Build secure, scalable and reusable AI capabilities that move from experimentation to reliable production use across DocTutorials products and business functions.

Department

Technology & Product Engineering

Location

Hyderabad / Chennai

Reports to

Vice President - Technology

Experience

10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years in AI/ML

Role Summary

The Chief Engineer - AI will define and lead AI engineering architecture, standards and production implementation. This is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role responsible for building reliable AI platforms and guiding AI engineers, data teams and application teams.

Key Responsibilities

1. AI Strategy and Architecture

·       Define the AI engineering strategy, architecture and technical roadmap.

·       Evaluate and select suitable models, frameworks, vector databases and AI platforms.

·       Make practical build-versus-buy and open-source-versus-commercial decisions.

·       Ensure AI solutions are modular, reusable, scalable, secure and cost-effective.

2. Production AI Engineering

·       Lead AI initiatives from use-case assessment and proof of concept through production deployment.

·       Build reusable AI services, APIs, pipelines and platform components for web, mobile and internal applications.

·       Establish development, testing, deployment, monitoring and production-support practices.

·       Resolve complex issues involving model quality, retrieval, performance, reliability and cost.

3. LLM, RAG and Agentic AI

·       Design LLM applications, enterprise RAG solutions and controlled AI-agent workflows.

·       Build document processing, chunking, embedding, indexing, retrieval and response pipelines.

·       Implement source traceability, human approval and clear permissions for sensitive use cases.

·       Improve response quality through prompt design, retrieval optimisation and evaluation.

4. AI Quality, Security and Responsible AI

·       Define evaluation standards for accuracy, relevance, groundedness, safety, latency and cost.

·       Introduce benchmark datasets and regression testing for prompts, models and retrieval pipelines.

·       Implement safeguards for hallucinations, unsupported responses, data leakage and unsafe actions.

·       Ensure role-based access, encryption, audit logging, secure secrets handling and approved data usage.

5. AI Platform and Integration

·       Create common AI capabilities and integration standards that can be reused across products and teams.

·       Integrate AI services with applications, databases and approved enterprise data sources.

·       Implement observability for model usage, quality, errors, response time and cost.

·       Reduce dependency on a single model provider, individual engineer or external vendor.

6. Technical Leadership and Team Development

·       Define AI engineering standards for architecture, coding, review, testing and documentation.

·       Remain hands-on through design reviews, critical code reviews, debugging and focused prototypes.

·       Mentor AI/ML engineers, data engineers and application teams; support hiring and capability building.

·       Work with Product and business teams to convert high-value problems into measurable AI solutions.

Required Skills and Experience

·       10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in practical AI/ML engineering.

·       Proven experience moving AI solutions from prototype to reliable production use.

·       Strong Python and production API development experience, preferably FastAPI.

·       Strong knowledge of LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, embeddings and agentic AI.

·       Experience with vector databases such as pgvector, Qdrant, Milvus or Weaviate.

·       Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack or similar orchestration frameworks.

·       Knowledge of cloud architecture (preferably AWS), microservices, databases, queues and distributed systems.

·       Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability and production support.

·       Strong understanding of application security, data privacy and responsible-AI engineering.

·       Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring and stakeholder-management capability.

Good-to-Have Experience

·       Healthcare, medical education, EdTech or digital-learning platforms.

·       Medical-content intelligence, knowledge graphs, ontologies, taxonomy or semantic search.

·       Clinical Case Library, personalised learning or recommendation systems.

·       Multi-modal AI involving text, audio, images or video.

·       Healthcare-data privacy, de-identification or standards such as SNOMED CT, ICD, HL7 or FHIR.

How Success Will Be Measured

·       Production adoption and measurable business or learner impact of AI capabilities.

·       Accuracy, groundedness, reliability, security and cost efficiency of AI solutions.

·       Reusable AI services delivered across products with reduced technical and vendor dependency.

·       Improved capability, engineering quality and ownership within the AI team.

We are looking for a hands-on AI engineering leader who can distinguish a valuable production capability from an attractive demo and build AI that is secure, scalable, measurable and maintainable.

Dear Candidate,

We have an immediate opening with Mphasis for Senior Full Stack Engineer (Python AI).

📍 Location: Hyderabad / Bangalore

💼 Experience: 5+ Years

🏢 Employment: Permanent

⚡ Immediate Joiners Preferred

Mandatory Skills:

• Python
• Java + Spring Boot
• React.js
• MongoDB

GenAI