AI Transformation Engineer at KnackLabs · Hyderabad · 7 - 10 years · ₹30L - ₹45L / yr · Bootstrapped · Posted 2 Sep 2026

Location: Hyderabad, India (home base), deployed at client sites in India. Occasional Middle East exposure possible.
About the Role
You will work as a senior AI consultant who embeds inside a customer's business. Your job is to learn how the business makes money, find the highest value problem, and build a working system that solves it.
You will not hand over a document and walk away. You will show working software early, own the roadmap, own the client relationship, and stay after go-live to run and improve the system.
Four behaviors define this role:
- Go where the work happens. You work onsite with the customer, in the room where decisions are made.
- Show working software early. You build a prototype in days, not a document in weeks.
- One person owns the outcome. You are the single point of accountability for the result.
- Stay after go-live. You keep running and improving the system after launch.
You are the single point of accountability. You are not a solo builder. A full KnackLabs engineering team in Hyderabad builds and runs the production systems behind you.
This role involves extended onsite deployments at client locations in other cities, sometimes up to six months at a stretch. Please apply only if you are ready for this way of working.
What you'll own
- Discovery - Learn how the customer makes money. Find the highest value problem to solve first.
- The prototype - Build a working prototype fast, using real or sample data, to prove the idea.
- The roadmap - Decide what to build, in what order, and set clear success measures tied to business outcomes.
- The build - Design and ship the production system with the Hyderabad engineering team. This includes data integration, agents, retrieval, and evaluations.
- The client relationship - Be the trusted technical contact for the customer, from engineers to senior leaders.
- Go live and after - Deploy the system, watch how it performs, fix problems, and improve it over time.
- Feedback to the product - Share what you learn in the field so our platform and internal tools get better.
What we are looking for
- Around 7 or more years of software engineering experience, including customer-facing or client delivery work.
- Experience working at a consulting or professional services firm in a client-facing delivery role.
- A full-stack development experience with strength in backend technologies.
- Strong programming skills in Python. Working knowledge of TypeScript or JavaScript.
- Production experience with large language models, including prompt engineering and agent development.
- You build with AI coding tools like Claude Code as your default way of working. You have built real apps and agents this way, not just used it for document generation or review.
- Experience building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems: chunking, embeddings, vector databases, retrieval, and reranking.
- Experience building and deploying AI systems.
- Experience integrating with APIs and enterprise systems.
- Experience with at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Experience building evaluations to measure accuracy, safety, latency, and cost.
- Clear communication. You can explain a technical choice to an engineer and to a business leader.
- High ownership and comfort with ambiguity. You can take an unclear problem and turn it into a plan.
- Willingness to work onsite at client locations in India for extended periods, and to travel as the work needs.
Nice to have
- Experience deploying AI systems in regulated industries such as insurance, banking, or the public sector.
- Experience with on-premises or private cloud (VPC) deployments.
- Experience with observability and tracing tools such as LangSmith or Braintrust.
- Experience with data engineering and pipelines.
- A history of side projects, open source contributions, or products you shipped end-to-end.
- Experience in embedded or forward-deployed roles before.
Stack and tools
- Languages: Python and TypeScript.
- Models: Claude and other frontier or open source models, chosen to fit the customer.
- AI patterns: RAG, agents, prompt engineering, and evaluations.
- Vector and retrieval: vector databases and retrieval pipelines.
- Cloud: AWS, Azure, or GCP, on public or private cloud.
- Integration: REST APIs and enterprise system connectors.

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Location: Hyderabad, India (home base), deployed at client sites in India. Occasional Middle East exposure possible.
About the Role
You will work as a senior AI engineer who embeds inside a customer's business. Your job is to learn how the business makes money, find the highest value problem, and build a working system that solves it.
Four behaviors define this role:
- Go where the work happens. You work onsite with the customer, in the room where decisions are made.
- Show working software early. You build a prototype in days, not a document in weeks.
- One person owns the outcome. You are the single point of accountability for the result.
- Stay after go-live. You keep running and improving the system after launch.
You are the single point of accountability. You are not a solo builder. A full KnackLabs engineering team in Hyderabad builds and runs the production systems behind you.
This role involves extended onsite deployments at client locations in other cities, sometimes up to six months at a stretch. Please apply only if you are ready for this way of working.
What you'll own
- Discovery - Learn how the customer makes money. Find the highest value problem to solve first.
- The prototype - Build a working prototype fast, using real or sample data, to prove the idea.
- The roadmap - Decide what to build, in what order, and set clear success measures tied to business outcomes.
- The build - Design and ship the production system with the Hyderabad engineering team. This includes data integration, agents, retrieval, and evaluations.
- The client relationship - Be the trusted technical contact for the customer, from engineers to senior leaders.
- Go live and after - Deploy the system, watch how it performs, fix problems, and improve it over time.
- Feedback to the product - Share what you learn in the field so the vendor's product and our internal tools get better.
What we are looking for
- Around 4 or more years of software engineering experience, including customer-facing or client delivery work.
- Strong programming skills in Python. Working knowledge of TypeScript or JavaScript.
- A full-stack development experience with strength in backend technologies.
- Production experience with large language models, including prompt engineering and agent development.
- You build with AI coding tools like Claude Code or Codex as your default way of working, and you have shipped real apps or agents this way.
- Experience building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems: chunking, embeddings, vector databases, retrieval, and reranking.
- Experience building and deploying AI systems.
- Experience integrating with APIs and enterprise systems.
- Experience with at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Clear communication. You can explain a technical choice to an engineer and to a business leader.
- High ownership and comfort with ambiguity. You can take an unclear problem and turn it into a plan.
- Willingness to work onsite at client locations in India for extended periods, and to travel as the work needs.
Nice to have
- Experience with on-premises or private cloud (VPC) deployments.
- Experience with observability and tracing tools such as LangSmith or Braintrust.
- Experience with data engineering and pipelines.
- A history of side projects, open source contributions, or products you shipped end-to-end.
- Experience in embedded or forward-deployed roles before.
- Experience working at a consulting or professional services firm in a client-facing delivery role.
Stack and tools
- Languages: Python and TypeScript.
- Models: Claude and other frontier or open-source models, chosen to fit the customer.
- AI patterns: RAG, agents, prompt engineering, and evaluations.
- Vector and retrieval: vector databases and retrieval pipelines.
- Cloud: AWS, Azure, or GCP, on public or private cloud.
- Integration: REST APIs and enterprise system connectors.
Role: AI Developer
Experience: 3–4 Years
Employment Type: Full-Time
Location: Goregaon, Mumbai
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced AI Developer with 3–4 years of software development experience and strong hands-on exposure to Generative AI, AI Agents, Copilots, and AI-powered application development.
The candidate will be responsible for building production-ready AI solutions, developing agentic workflows, modernizing legacy applications, and integrating LLM capabilities into enterprise applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy AI Agents and agentic workflows for enterprise use cases.
- Build AI Copilots and LLM-powered applications using modern AI frameworks and APIs.
- Develop RAG-based applications using embeddings, vector databases, and enterprise data.
- Work on legacy application migration and modernization, leveraging AI-assisted development and code transformation techniques.
- Analyze legacy codebases and design strategies for AI-driven migration, refactoring, and modernization.
- Integrate LLMs with enterprise applications, APIs, databases, and third-party systems.
- Implement tool calling, function calling, multi-agent workflows, and workflow automation.
- Perform prompt engineering, context optimization, model evaluation, and AI application testing.
- Take ownership of AI solutions from POC and prototyping through production deployment.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, and engineering teams to convert business requirements into scalable AI solutions.
- Stay updated with emerging technologies in Generative AI, Agentic AI, LLMs, and AI-assisted software development.
Required Skills
- 3–4 years of professional software development experience.
- Strong proficiency in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Hands-on experience developing Generative AI / LLM-based applications.
- Strong understanding of AI Agents, RAG, Prompt Engineering, LLM APIs, and embeddings.
- Experience with frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, or equivalent.
- Experience working with REST APIs, databases, Git, and cloud environments.
- Hands-on experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, FAISS, or equivalent.
- Good understanding of software architecture, debugging, testing, and deployment practices.
Good to Have
- Experience with Microsoft Copilot / Copilot Studio.
- Experience working with Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Azure OpenAI, or open-source LLMs.
- Experience in legacy application migration, modernization, or code conversion.
- Knowledge of Azure AI / AWS / Google Cloud AI services.
- Experience with MCP, multi-agent systems, tool calling, and AI orchestration.
- Experience building enterprise-grade AI solutions with focus on security, scalability, and performance.
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
- Architecture - Design AI agents, RAG systems, integrations, and the scalable backend systems around them, for multiple client engagements.
- Technical scoping - Work directly with clients to turn a business problem into a system design, with clear trade-offs and clear reasons.
- Scale and reliability - Make sure what we build handles real load: data stores, queues, caching, horizontal scaling, and fault tolerance.
- Design reviews - Review designs and builds across engagements. Set the technical bar and hold it.
- Evaluation strategy - Define how we measure accuracy, safety, latency, and cost for the AI systems we ship.
- Guiding engineers - Raise the level of the engineers building with you, through reviews and direct pairing.
- Feedback to the platform - Feed what you learn across engagements back into our platform and internal tools.
What we are looking for
- Around 7 or more years of software engineering experience, including direct work with customers on design or delivery.
- Full-stack development experience with strength in backend technologies.
- Experience designing and building scalable applications. You understand how large-scale distributed systems work: data partitioning, queues, caching, horizontal scaling, and fault tolerance.
- At least 2 years of strong, hands-on AI experience with large language models in production.
- 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.
- Hands-on experience building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems: chunking, embeddings, vector databases, retrieval, and reranking.
- Hands-on experience building AI agents.
- Strong programming skills in Python. Working knowledge of TypeScript or JavaScript.
- Experience with at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Clear communication. You can explain an architecture decision to an engineer and to a business leader, and defend it under questioning.
- High ownership and comfort with ambiguity. You can take an unclear problem and turn it into a design.
Nice to have
- Experience building evaluations to measure accuracy, safety, latency, and cost.
- Experience with observability and tracing tools such as LangSmith or Braintrust.
- Experience with on-premises or private cloud (VPC) deployments.
- Experience deploying AI systems in regulated industries such as insurance, banking, or the public sector.
- Experience with data engineering and pipelines.
- A history of side projects, open source contributions, or products you shipped end-to-end.
- Experience working at a consulting or professional services firm in a client-facing delivery role.
Stack and tools
- Languages: Python and TypeScript.
- Models: Claude and other frontier or open-source models, chosen to fit the customer.
- AI patterns: RAG, agents, prompt engineering, skills, and evaluations.
- Vector and retrieval: vector databases and retrieval pipelines.
- Cloud: AWS, Azure, or GCP, on public or private cloud.
- Integration: REST APIs and enterprise system connectors.
Skill Set
Large language,Artificial Intelligence,Machine Learning
- 4–7 years of experience in software engineering/AI roles
- Strong programming skills in Python or TypeScript (Java/Go is a plus)
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG pipelines, and AI frameworks
- Experience building APIs and working with distributed systems
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
Excellent communication
We are building an advanced, AI-driven multi-agent software system designed to revolutionize task automation and code generation. This is a futuristic AI platform capable of:
✅ Real-time self-coding based on tasks
✅ Autonomous multi-agent collaboration
✅ AI-powered decision-making
✅ Cross-platform compatibility (Desktop, Web, Mobile)
We are hiring a highly skilled **AI Engineer & Full-Stack Developer** based in India, with a strong background in AI/ML, multi-agent architecture, and scalable, production-grade software development.
### Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain a multi-agent AI system (AutoGPT, BabyAGI, MetaGPT concepts)
- Integrate large language models (GPT-4o, Claude, open-source LLMs)
- Develop full-stack components (Backend: Python, FastAPI/Flask, Frontend: React/Next.js)
- Work on real-time task execution pipelines
- Build cross-platform apps using Electron or Flutter
- Implement Redis, Vector databases, scalable APIs
- Guide the architecture of autonomous, self-coding AI systems
### Must-Have Skills:
- Python (advanced, AI applications)
- AI/ML experience, including multi-agent orchestration
- LLM integration knowledge
- Full-stack development: React or Next.js
- Redis, Vector Databases (e.g., Pinecone, FAISS)
- Real-time applications (websockets, event-driven)
- Cloud deployment (AWS, GCP)
### Good to Have:
- Experience with code-generation AI models (Codex, GPT-4o coding abilities)
- Microservices and secure system design
- Knowledge of AI for workflow automation and productivity tools
Join us to work on cutting-edge AI technology that builds the future of autonomous software.
* Strong practical knowledge and interest in modern AI tools.
* Genuine curiosity and willingness to continuously learn.
* Ability to research, experiment, implement, troubleshoot and improve independently.
* Good understanding of prompting and AI workflows.
* Strong problem-solving mindset.
* Basic understanding of APIs, integrations and automation.
* Ability to explain technology clearly to non-technical people.
* Comfortable using AI to solve real-world business problems.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
•Build agents with persistent context & memory
•Design self-learning feedback loops
•Implement RAG pipelines for domain knowledge
•Manage conversation state & orchestration
•Integrate with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Claude, open-source)
Iterate fast — ship daily, measure weekly
MUST-HAVE SKILLS
•Python / TypeScript proficiency
•LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen or custom frameworks
•Experience with vector DBs (Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant)
•Prompt engineering & evaluation pipelines
•Understanding of agent architectures (ReAct, tool-use)
Git, CI/CD, containerization basics
The Role
We’re looking for a Senior Applied AI & Data Engineer to become our first dedicated AI and data engineer.
You’ll build conversational AI experiences across web, mobile, and in-store channels while developing the data foundation behind them. You’ll make key technical decisions and own your work through to production.
What You’ll Do
• Build AI assistants using tool calling to work with real product, search, and order systems
• Design guardrails and evaluation sets to ensure AI responses are accurate and safe
• Build real-time and voice-enabled AI experiences
• Improve product data quality through AI-assisted enrichment and review workflows
• Build data pipelines, analytics, and personalisation systems
• Work closely with web and mobile developers and help guide technical implementation
What You’ll Need
• 6+ years of experience building and running production backend systems
• Strong Python skills, plus experience with JavaScript/TypeScript backends
• Experience shipping at least one LLM-powered feature to real users
• Experience with search and relevance
• Experience building data pipelines and analytics stores
• Comfortable deploying and monitoring services on a major cloud platform
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work independently
Nice to Have
• Experience with speech or voice AI
• E-commerce or retail technology experience
• Experience building multilingual products
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The Opportunity
Join our “DevOps for Content” revolution as we partner with global brands and agencies
to transform their end-to-end creative workflows – from ideation to activation – to deliver
AI-powered content services with speed, scale, and governance.
Through an AI-first experimentation approach and deep expertise in both first-party and
third-party AI models, we develop new applications, platforms, and scalable patterns
that unlock the GenAI-powered Content Supply Chain. We function as a continuous
product innovation engine—feeding repeatable customer solutions straight into the
product roadmap to accelerate product-led growth.
As a Forward-Deployed AI Engineer, you will own the end-to-end development and
launch of GenAI applications through Adobe and third-party generative models. You are
an AI native who will embed directly into customer teams to spin up proof points in days
and co-develop features that enhance customer value. If you thrive in start-up
environments—scaling products from prototype to production, pushing innovative
research into real-world use cases, and owning product & business outcomes—you’ll fit
right in here!
What You’ll Do
Collaborate & Innovate: Partner with Technical Architects, Engagement
Managers and Product teams to define customer requirements/use cases,
facilitate technical workshops, and co-create specific GenAI solutions.
Prototype Rapidly: Apply an AI-first experimentation mindset—build proof
points in days, iterate on feedback, and drive quick wins. UX/UI and rapid
prototyping skills are a plus.
Engineer End-to-End: Design, build, and deploy full-stack applications and
microservices—integrating Firefly APIs, Common Extensibility Platform,
GenStudio for Performance Marketing, headless CMS architectures and UX/UI
Designs.
Bridge to Product: Capture field-proven use cases and funnel them back to
Product & Engineering—fueling the Firefly roadmap.
Automate & Scale: Develop reusable components, CI/CD pipelines, and
governance checks to ensure consistent, repeatable delivery.
Operate at Speed: Thrive in a constantly evolving, start-up-like
environment—own delivery sprints, tackle challenges on-site/remotely, and adapt
to evolving AI trends.
Share & Elevate: Document your playbooks, prompts, and patterns in our
internal knowledge base—helping the whole organization move faster.
What You Bring
Full-Stack Expertise: 5+ years as a full-stack developer or technical consultant
building and launching production software (React.js/Next.js/Angular;
Node.js/Java Spring Boot; REST/GraphQL, HTML, JavaScript, Java, XML).
AI Tinkerer: AI-native tinkerer who embeds AI in your day-to-day workflows and
spends your free time inventing and tinkering with the possibilities of AI. You
keep ahead of market trends across third-party models, GPUs, and new AI
applications.
Adobe Fluency: Deep understanding of Adobe Creative Cloud APIs/SDK/CEP,
Firefly Services APIs, and Adobe Experience Cloud integrations (AEM, Workfront
Fusion, AJO or equivalent experience).
Cloud & DevOps Savvy: AWS/Azure/GCP, containerization
(Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD tooling (GitLab, Jenkins, etc.).
Strong communicator: You translate complex AI concepts for both engineers
and executives and guide customers through technical decisions aligned to
business objectives.
Customer-Centricity: Always prioritizing the customer and their needs and
expectations first in everything you do. You are outstanding at contributing to a
culture of customer-centricity among your team and your extended ecosystem.
Startup DNA: Thrives in fastpaced, ambiguous environments—relentlessly
seeking better, faster, more innovative ways to solve customer objectives and
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LLMs, Agents & AI Services
📍 Mumbai (On-site) | Full-time | 2-4 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.
AI is core to how we design, deliver, and scale software for our customers.
We are hiring an AI Engineer for a dedicated client engagement building a complex production AI platform, working on the AI capabilities and agentic features at the core of the product.
The mandatory requirement for this role is at least one AI feature personally shipped to production for real users, with operational ownership.
The role suits someone who thinks quickly on solutioning, can take an ambiguous problem to a working prototype in days, and has the discipline to carry it through to production with predictable economics.
You will work alongside the Senior AI Engineer and the wider pod, with ownership of parts of the AI surface area of the product.
Responsibilities:
Solutioning and POCs
Translate ambiguous customer problems into working POCs at speed.
Pick the right model, framework, and architecture, and demonstrate value early before scaling investment.
LLM Application Development
Build AI features and services using LLM APIs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and self-hosted open-weight models (Llama, Qwen, Mistral).
Choose the right model per use case based on cost, latency, capability, and context-window trade-offs.
Agentic System Design
Design and implement agentic workflows using LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, LlamaIndex Agents, or custom orchestration.
Cover tool use, planning, memory, and multi-step reasoning appropriate to the problem.
API and Service Development
Build production AI services and APIs using Python and FastAPI.
Handle streaming responses, async processing, structured outputs, retries, and graceful degradation when models or tools fail.
Retrieval and Tool Integration
Implement RAG pipelines with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, pgvector, Chroma), embeddings, chunking strategies, hybrid search, and reranking.
Integrate external tools, internal APIs, and document sources through tool-calling and MCP-style patterns.
Cost Analysis and Unit Economics
Model the per-request and per-user cost of every AI feature before it ships.
Track token usage, prompt caching, batching, and model-routing strategies.
Drive measurable improvements in unit economics.
Production Hardening
Add observability and tracing (LangSmith, Langfuse, OpenTelemetry), guardrails, content safety checks, prompt injection defences, and fallback behaviour.
Prompt Engineering and Evaluation
Design, test, and iterate prompts with measured outcomes.
Build evaluation harnesses for accuracy, hallucination, latency, and cost.
Run benchmarks across models and prompt variants before locking in a design.
Requirements:
AI Feature Shipped to Production (Mandatory)
Must have personally built and shipped at least one AI feature that runs in production for real users, with operational ownership.
POCs, internal demos, and one-off scripts do not qualify.
2 to 4 Years of Professional Software or AI Engineering Experience
With at least one production AI feature owned end to end.
Strong Python Proficiency and API Development with FastAPI
Comfort with type hints, async, packaging, testing, streaming responses, and authentication.
Production-grade Python, not notebook-only code.
Hands-on Depth Across the LLM and Agent Stack
Working experience with at least two of OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, or self-hosted open-weight models (vLLM, Ollama, Together, Replicate).
Working familiarity with at least one agent framework (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, LlamaIndex Agents) or hand-rolled equivalent.
Working knowledge of RAG, embeddings, and vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, pgvector, Chroma).
Solutioning Speed and POC Velocity
Demonstrated ability to move from a fuzzy problem to a working prototype in days.
Strong instinct for what to build first, what to defer, and what to throw away.
Cost Discipline for Production AI
Ability to calculate, monitor, and optimise the cost of LLM APIs, tokens, embeddings, vector store usage, and infrastructure.
Treats unit economics as a first-class concern.
AWS Familiarity
Working knowledge of EC2, S3, IAM, and at least one of Bedrock, SageMaker, or equivalent.
Comfortable in a Fast-Moving Environment
Self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity, takes ownership without being asked, and ships under shifting priorities.
Strong Written and Spoken English Communication
Able to explain trade-offs to non-AI engineers, designers, product managers, and clients in plain language.
Nice to Have
- fine-tuning or LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT exposure
- MCP server authoring
- eval framework experience (LangSmith, Promptfoo, Ragas, DeepEval)
- open-source AI contributions
- multi-modal models (vision, audio)






