FDE

Forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) are Mactores' services layer. You embed with the customer's team, own outcomes from discovery through the production cutover, and personally carry the delivery commitment.

The agent platform we deploy absorbs 60–70% of engagement work, discovery, assessment, design, and testing. You absorb the judgment: target architecture, refactoring trade-offs, model selection, cutover strategy, and the decisions an agent platform cannot make. The agent absorbs scale. You absorb judgment. 

This is not a staff-augmentation seat and not an advisory role. You ship.

What you will do?

• Deliver production agentic AI systems and AWS modernization engagements on committed dates across three pillars: Data Platform Modernization, Application & Database Modernization, and AI Agents for Apps.
• Build and productionize AI agents, orchestration, retrieval pipelines, evaluation harnesses, observability running against real customer data, not demo data.
• Convert existing products into agents: expose product functionality as callable tools for agent-to-agent composition, or replace form-and-click UX with agent-native, intent-driven interfaces.
• Convert existing Business processes into agents: expose process functionality as callable tools for agent-to-agent composition, or replace form-and-click UX with agent-native, intent-driven interfaces.
• Embed directly with customer engineering teams. Run architecture sessions, defend design decisions, and align stakeholders from VP Engineering to CTO.
• Make agent decisions traceable and defensible, validation runs in parallel with live workloads, and outputs hold up to internal audit and regulators (HIPAA, PCI-DSS, FSI-grade governance where the vertical demands it).
• Feed field experience back into the platform and practice: your deployment patterns, integration playbooks, and edge cases shape how we deliver.

What are we looking for?

• Excellent communication skills (English) — verbal and written. Non-negotiable. You will present architecture to customer CTOs, write documents that hold up in audit, and defend judgment calls in the room. If you can build but not explain, this role is not a fit.
• You have shipped production agentic AI systems on AWS. Not POCs, not notebooks — systems running in production for real users. This is the primary qualification. Be prepared to walk through what you shipped, the decisions you made, and what broke.
• Deep understanding of agentic architecture — you can design an agent system from first principles and explain why each component exists:
• Agent design patterns: single-agent vs. multi-agent systems, supervisor/orchestrator patterns, hierarchical agent topologies, planner–executor separation, and when each applies.
• Orchestration: building and operating orchestrator agents that decompose tasks, route work to specialist agents or tools, and manage state across multi-step workflows (LangGraph, Strands Agents, CrewAI, or equivalent).
• Memory: short-term/working memory (context management, conversation state) and long-term memory (episodic and semantic stores, vector- and graph-backed retrieval), and the production trade-offs of each.
• Reflection and self-correction: critique loops, self-evaluation, retry-with-feedback patterns, and evaluation harnesses that catch agent failures before customers do.
• Tool use and function calling: schema design, tool-selection reliability, error handling, and agent-to-agent composition.
• RAG and retrieval pipelines: chunking, embedding, hybrid retrieval, reranking, and grounding agent decisions in customer data.
• Strong AWS production experience: Amazon Bedrock and AWS AI services, plus core platform services (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora, Glue, EMR, Redshift, Kinesis, or similar depending on specialization).
• Solid software engineering fundamentals Python, TypeScript, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, testing-driven development discipline.
• Experience with data or application modernization (database migration, legacy refactoring, data platform builds) is a strong plus, since agents run against these workloads.
• Indicative experience: roughly 3–10 years in engineering roles, with agentic AI / GenAI as your current day job. We have demonstrated agent-native expertise over tenure — an engineer with 3–4 years of hands-on agentic AI work typically outperforms a 12-year generalist on this work.

You'll be preferred if you've:

• US English verbal and written fluency 
• Delivery experience in one or more of our verticals: Financial Services, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Internet & Software, Manufacturing, or Telco/Media/Entertainment/Gaming/Sports.
• Model tuning and fine-tuning: systematic prompt engineering and optimization; parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA/QLoRA or similar); instruction tuning; working knowledge of RLHF/DPO; sound judgment on when to fine-tune vs. prompt vs. RAG; and evaluation of tuned models against baselines. Fine-tuning experience on Amazon Bedrock or SageMaker is a plus.
• Experience with compliance-sensitive AI systems (HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, data residency).
• Knowledge graph, code-analysis (AST), or CDC/streaming experience (Debezium, Kafka/MSK).
• Solid software engineering fundamentals — Java, C++, Go Lang, .Net, Rust
• Prior customer-facing consulting or forward-deployed experience.
• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Professional, Machine Learning Specialty, or Data Analytics).

Why This Role?

• You own outcomes, not tickets. FDEs carry the delivery commitment personally — architecture, judgment, and cutover are yours.
• You work agent-native from day one. Our delivery model would not function without agents. You build with the platform, not around it.
• You ship. Engagements measured in weeks to production, legacy retired, outcomes named. No archived pilots.
• You compound. Field delivery informs the Aedeon platform roadmap; the platform's growth expands what you can deliver. Few engineering roles sit in that loop.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to work closely with customers and build technical solutions to solve real-world business problems.

This is a highly customer-facing engineering role, combining full-stack development, AI and solution engineering. You will work in ambiguous environments, take end-to-end ownership and turn customer requirements into working product solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work directly with customers to understand technical and business requirements.
• Design, build and deploy full-stack solutions and product features.
• Integrate AI/LLM capabilities into applications and workflows.
• Troubleshoot technical challenges and develop practical solutions.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver customer-focused solutions.
• Take ownership of projects from requirement gathering through implementation.
• Work effectively in fast-paced and ambiguous environments.

What We're Looking For:

• Experience as a Full Stack Engineer, Product Engineer, AI Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Solutions Architect or similar role.
• Strong understanding of both frontend and backend development.
• Experience building and contributing to real-world product features.
• Exposure to AI/LLMs, Copilots, AI automation or GenAI tools.
• Strong problem-solving and customer-facing communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of outcomes.
• Comfortable working with evolving requirements and ambiguity.

Preferred Background

• Candidates from product/SaaS companies, AI startups, or modern technology environments are preferred.
• Experience working with product clients through a service-based organization will also be considered, provided you have strong hands-on product engineering experience.
• Important: This is not a backend-only role. Strong full-stack exposure and the ability to work directly with customers are essential.

About the Role

We are seeking a hands-on Tech Lead to design, build, and integrate AI-driven systems that automate and enhance real-world business workflows. This is a high-impact role for someone who enjoys full-stack ownership — from backend AI architecture to frontend user experiences — and can align engineering decisions with measurable product outcomes.

You will begin as a strong individual contributor, independently architecting and deploying AI-powered solutions. As the product portfolio scales, you will lead a distributed team across India and Australia, acting as a System Integrator to align engineering, data, and AI contributions into cohesive production systems.

Example Project

Design and deploy a multi-agent AI system to automate critical stages of a company’s sales cycle, including:

• Generating client proposals using historical SharePoint data and CRM insights
• Summarizing meeting transcripts
• Drafting follow-up communications
• Feeding structured insights into dashboards and workflow tools

The solution will combine RAG pipelines, LLM reasoning, and React-based interfaces to deliver measurable productivity gains.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement AI workflows using LLMs, vector databases, and automation frameworks
• Act as a System Integrator, coordinating deliverables across distributed engineering and AI teams
• Develop frontend interfaces using React/JavaScript to enable seamless human-AI collaboration
• Design APIs and microservices integrating AI systems with enterprise platforms (SharePoint, Teams, Databricks, Azure)
• Drive architecture decisions balancing scalability, performance, and security
• Collaborate with product managers, clients, and data teams to translate business use cases into production-ready systems
• Mentor junior engineers and evolve into a broader leadership role as the team grows

Ideal Candidate Profile

Experience Requirements

• 5+ years in full-stack development (Python backend + React/JavaScript frontend)
• Strong experience in API and microservice integration
• 2+ years leading technical teams and coordinating distributed engineering efforts
• 1+ year of hands-on AI project experience (LLMs, Transformers, LangChain, OpenAI/Azure AI frameworks)
• Prior experience in B2B SaaS environments, particularly in AI, automation, or enterprise productivity solutions

Technical Expertise

• Designing and implementing AI workflows including RAG pipelines, vector databases, and prompt orchestration
• Ensuring backend and AI systems are scalable, reliable, observable, and secure
• Familiarity with enterprise integrations (SharePoint, Teams, Databricks, Azure)
• Experience building production-grade AI systems within enterprise SaaS ecosystems

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. 

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

Job Description: Lead - Cloud Engineering (AWS / Azure)

Role Title: Lead - Cloud Engineering

Experience Level: 10+ Years

Domain Focus: Healthcare AI & Cloud Infrastructure

Location: Remote

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Lead - Cloud Engineering with over 10 years of IT experience to lead our cloud strategy, architecture, and infrastructure teams. In this role, you will oversee end-to-end cloud deployment, multi-cloud migration, and scalable architecture designed to support cutting-edge Generative AI applications in the healthcare technology domain.

The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise in both AWS and Azure, strong hands-on capability in cloud infrastructure, and proven leadership experience driving security, compliance, and team growth.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & Migration

• Lead the architecture, design, and execution of cloud migrations, deployments, and modernizations across AWS and Azure environments.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep to ensure scalable, automated infrastructure provisioning.
• Build high-availability, low-latency architectures optimized for data-intensive Generative AI and Machine Learning workloads.

Security & Healthcare Compliance

• Enforce healthcare security standards including HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and data governance best practices across all cloud assets.
• Implement Zero-Trust security, Identity Access Management (IAM), data encryption key management, and continuous vulnerability monitoring.

Leadership & Team Management

• Manage, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of DevOps, Cloud, and SRE Engineers.
• Drive Agile workflows, sprint planning, incident response frameworks, and SLA compliance.
• Collaborate closely with Data Engineering, AI/ML, and Software Product teams to align infrastructure with business roadmaps.

Operations & FinOps

• Establish cloud cost optimization strategies (FinOps) to manage computing costs associated with AI models and large-scale data processing.
• Manage monitoring, alerting, and telemetry frameworks (e.g., Prometheus, Datadog, CloudWatch) to ensure 99.99% uptime.

Key Requirements

• Experience: 10+ years of overall IT experience with at least 5+ years in a cloud leadership or lead architect role.
• Cloud Platforms: Advanced hands-on expertise with both AWS (e.g., EC2, S3, EKS, Bedrock, SageMaker) and Azure (e.g., AKS, Azure OpenAI, Blob, Virtual Machines).
• DevOps & IaC: Strong background in Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins).
• Domain Knowledge: Prior experience building or managing cloud environments within Healthcare, Life Sciences, or HealthTech is strongly preferred.
• AI/ML Familiarity: Experience supporting cloud infrastructure for machine learning pipelines, LLM deployments, or GPU compute management.
• Certifications (Preferred): AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).

Role Summary:

We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Databricks and Generative AI/Claude to work closely with clients, business stakeholders, and internal engineering teams. The ideal candidate will combine strong Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Databricks, and Generative AI skills with the ability to understand business problems and rapidly build, deploy, and optimize production-ready solutions. This is a client-facing, hands-on engineering role where you will work from problem discovery and solution design through POC development, production deployment, and ongoing optimization.

Key Responsibilities:

Forward Deployed Engineering

• Work directly with clients and stakeholders to understand business and technical requirements.
• Translate business problems into scalable data, AI, and software solutions.
• Design and develop POCs and rapidly validate technical solutions.
• Convert successful POCs into reliable, production-ready applications.
• Work closely with client engineering and data teams during implementation and deployment.
• Troubleshoot production issues and continuously optimize deployed solutions.
• Act as a technical bridge between clients, delivery teams, data engineers, AI engineers, and architects.

Databricks & Data Engineering

• Design and develop scalable data solutions using Databricks, PySpark, Python, and SQL.
• Build and optimize data ingestion, transformation, and ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Work with Databricks Lakehouse, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog.
• Develop Databricks Workflows and production data pipelines.
• Implement data processing solutions for structured and semi-structured datasets.
• Optimize Databricks workloads for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost.
• Integrate Databricks with databases, APIs, cloud platforms, and enterprise applications.

Generative AI & Claude

• Build enterprise AI solutions using Claude and other Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Integrate Claude APIs into applications and business workflows.
• Develop RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) solutions using enterprise data.
• Work with embeddings, vector search, semantic search, and knowledge retrieval.
• Develop AI-powered applications for summarization, classification, information extraction, question answering, and document processing.
• Implement prompt engineering, structured outputs, tool/function calling, and context management.
• Develop and integrate AI agents and multi-step AI workflows where applicable.
• Evaluate LLM responses for accuracy, relevance, groundedness, latency, and cost.
• Implement appropriate AI guardrails, security, and data privacy controls.

Production & Deployment

• Deploy AI and data solutions into production environments.
• Work with APIs, microservices, Git, CI/CD, containers, and cloud platforms.
• Monitor application and pipeline performance and troubleshoot issues.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists and ML Engineers to productionize AI/ML models.
• Ensure solutions meet security, scalability, reliability, and maintainability requirements.

Required Skills & Experience

• 4+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Software Engineering, AI/ML Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong hands-on experience with Databricks.
• Strong proficiency in Python, PySpark, and SQL.
• Experience with Delta Lake and Lakehouse Architecture.
• Experience working with Generative AI / LLMs.
• Hands-on experience with Claude / Anthropic APIs is preferred.
• Experience with RAG, embeddings, vector databases, and semantic search.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs and enterprise integrations.
• Experience developing production-grade applications and data pipelines.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting capabilities.
• Excellent communication and client-facing skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Claude Code / Anthropic ecosystem.
• Experience with OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, or other LLM platforms.
• Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or equivalent frameworks.
• Experience with Databricks Unity Catalog, Workflows, and MLflow.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
• Exposure to AI agents and agentic workflows.
• Knowledge of AI evaluation, guardrails, security, and responsible AI.
• Experience working in consulting, client delivery, or customer-facing engineering environments.

Key Competencies

• Strong customer-facing and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to understand ambiguous business problems and translate them into technical solutions.
• Strong ownership and execution mindset.
• Ability to rapidly prototype, iterate, and productionize solutions.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced and dynamic client environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively with distributed teams.

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced AI/ML Engineer to design, develop, deploy, and maintain machine learning and AI solutions that address complex business problems. The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience in Python, Machine Learning, Generative AI, LLMs, and AI/ML deployment, with the ability to work across the complete AI/ML lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy scalable Machine Learning and AI models for real-world business use cases.
• Build and optimize ML pipelines covering data preparation, feature engineering, model development, evaluation, and deployment.
• Develop solutions using Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), NLP, and deep learning.
• Work with LLMs, prompt engineering, embeddings, vector databases, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.
• Integrate AI/ML models with enterprise applications and APIs.
• Fine-tune and evaluate ML/LLM models based on business requirements.
• Implement MLOps practices for model versioning, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists, Software Engineers, Architects, Product Managers, and business stakeholders.
• Conduct model performance evaluation, optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Ensure AI solutions meet requirements around security, scalability, reliability, responsible AI, and data privacy.
• Stay current with emerging AI/ML technologies, frameworks, and industry best practices.

Required Skills

• Strong programming experience in Python.
• Strong understanding of Machine Learning algorithms, statistics, and data structures.
• Hands-on experience with ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, or equivalent.
• Experience with Generative AI and LLMs such as OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, or open-source models.
• Strong knowledge of Prompt Engineering, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, and AI agents.
• Experience with NLP, deep learning, or computer vision is an advantage.
• Experience developing and consuming REST APIs and microservices.
• Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and MLOps.
• Familiarity with Git and modern software development practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 4 years of relevant experience in AI/ML engineering or a related field.
• Experience building and deploying production-grade AI/ML solutions.
• Enterprise application development experience.
• Experience with Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI, or similar managed AI platforms.
• Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, or comparable AI frameworks is a plus.
• Experience with AI/ML model monitoring, evaluation, and optimization.

What You Bring

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to translate business requirements into practical AI/ML solutions.
• Strong software engineering and debugging capabilities.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a cross-functional environment.
• Good communication skills with the ability to explain complex AI concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Keywords

AI Engineer | ML Engineer | Machine Learning | Generative AI | LLM | Python | NLP | Deep Learning | RAG | Prompt Engineering | AI Agents | Azure OpenAI | AWS Bedrock | MLOps | TensorFlow | PyTorch | Scikit-learn | Vector Database | Cloud AI

Location: Gurugram

Work mode: Hybrid

Job Title: Senior AI Engineer

Experience: 5–10 years in software engineering, with 3+ years in AI/ML engineering preferred

Employment Type: Full-time

Department: Artificial Intelligence / Engineering

Location: Bangalore

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior AI Engineer to design, develop, deploy, and scale intelligent AI-powered applications and solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in machine learning, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, and production-grade software engineering.

The candidate will work closely with product managers, data scientists, software engineers, and business stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into scalable, reliable, secure, and cost-effective AI solutions.

Key Responsibilities

1. AI Solution Design and Development

• Design, develop, and deploy end-to-end AI and machine learning solutions.
• Build intelligent applications using LLMs, Generative AI, NLP, and deep learning techniques.
• Develop scalable AI architectures and reusable components for enterprise applications.
• Evaluate AI models and select appropriate approaches based on accuracy, latency, cost, and business requirements.

2. Generative AI and LLM Engineering

• Develop LLM-powered applications using models from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or open-source ecosystems.
• Design and implement RAG pipelines, document processing workflows, semantic search, and knowledge retrieval systems.
• Build AI agents and multi-step workflows using appropriate orchestration frameworks.
• Implement prompt engineering, structured outputs, tool calling, and context management.
• Optimize model performance through evaluation, fine-tuning where appropriate, and inference optimization.

3. Machine Learning and Data Engineering

• Develop and operationalize machine learning models for classification, prediction, recommendation, and other business use cases.
• Work with structured, unstructured, and multimodal data.
• Build data preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, and validation pipelines.
• Apply appropriate model evaluation techniques and statistical methods.

4. Production Deployment and MLOps / LLMOps

• Deploy AI solutions using cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Build automated CI/CD pipelines for AI applications and model deployment.
• Implement model versioning, experiment tracking, monitoring, and performance evaluation.
• Optimize inference latency, throughput, infrastructure utilization, and operating costs.
• Establish observability for AI applications, including token usage, retrieval quality, latency, failures, and model behavior.

5. Software Engineering and System Architecture

• Develop production-quality applications and APIs using Python and modern backend frameworks.
• Design RESTful APIs, asynchronous processing systems, and microservices where appropriate.
• Integrate AI services with enterprise applications, databases, and third-party systems.
• Use relational databases, vector databases, caching, and distributed systems effectively.
• Apply software engineering best practices, including testing, code reviews, documentation, and design patterns.

6. Security, Quality, and Responsible AI

• Implement safeguards against prompt injection, data leakage, insecure tool execution, and unauthorized access.
• Apply appropriate privacy, security, and compliance controls to AI systems.
• Evaluate hallucinations, bias, reliability, and failure modes.
• Design human-in-the-loop workflows and fallback mechanisms for critical use cases.

7. Technical Leadership and Collaboration

• Lead technical design discussions and mentor junior AI engineers.
• Define engineering standards, coding practices, and AI development guidelines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Conduct code reviews, evaluate emerging technologies, and recommend practical innovations.
• Communicate technical trade-offs and solution architecture to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Technical Skills

Programming and Backend Development

• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Experience with FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
• Knowledge of REST APIs, asynchronous programming, data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
• Experience with Git, automated testing, and CI/CD.

AI and Machine Learning

• Strong understanding of supervised and unsupervised learning, model evaluation, and statistical concepts.
• Hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or scikit-learn.
• Knowledge of NLP, embeddings, transformers, and deep learning fundamentals.

Generative AI and LLMs

• Hands-on experience building production applications using LLM APIs or open-source models.
• Strong understanding of RAG architecture, embeddings, chunking, reranking, and retrieval evaluation.
• Experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus, or pgvector.
• Familiarity with orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangChain, or comparable tools.
• Experience with tool calling, structured generation, agent workflows, and LLM evaluation.

Cloud and Infrastructure

• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with model serving, scalable APIs, monitoring, and production deployments.
• Experience with MLOps or LLMOps practices.

Databases and Data Processing

• Strong SQL skills and experience with relational databases.
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases, data pipelines, and distributed processing.
• Experience working with unstructured data, document ingestion, and retrieval systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with fine-tuning, quantization, or serving open-source LLMs.
• Experience with multimodal AI, including text, image, audio, or video.
• Knowledge of agent evaluation, workflow orchestration, and multi-agent systems.
• Experience with AI security, guardrails, governance, and responsible AI.
• Experience optimizing AI workloads for latency, scalability, and cost.
• Contributions to open-source AI projects, research, or technical publications.

Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related field.
• Equivalent practical experience and demonstrated engineering expertise may be considered.

Key Success Metrics

• Quality, accuracy, and reliability of deployed AI solutions.
• Production adoption and measurable business impact.
• Reduction in inference costs and response latency.
• RAG retrieval quality and reduction in unsupported or incorrect responses.
• System availability, scalability, and operational stability.
• Delivery timelines, code quality, and technical mentoring effectiveness.

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.