Forward Deployed Engineer at KnackLabs · Hyderabad · 4 - 8 years · ₹15L - ₹25L / yr · Bootstrapped · Posted 4 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 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.

About KnackLabs
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Knacklabs.ai is Product Development Studio. WE BUILD TRUE PRODUCT TEAMS for our clients. Each team is a small, well-balanced group of geeks and a product manager that together produce relevant and high-quality products. We use data to make decisions, bringing big data and analysis to software development. We believe the product development process is broken as most studios operate as IT Services. We operate like a software factory that applies manufacturing principles of product development to the software.
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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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Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have hands-on experience working on NLP, embeddings, semantic search, text classification, document understanding, recommendation systems, or similar AI/ML use cases.
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Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT, Llama, Mistral, Claude, Gemini, Phi, or similar foundation models.
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Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have hands-on experience building or implementing RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) systems, vector search, knowledge retrieval, embeddings, chunking, indexing, or semantic retrieval solutions.
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Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have experience working with Git, CI/CD practices, production environments, and scalable AI/ML systems.
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Mandatory (CTC) – The CTC breakup offered will be 75% fixed + 25% variable, as per company policy.
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Mandatory (Age) - Candidate's Age should be below 28 Years
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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
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.
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Mandatory (Experience 4) - Must have hands-on experience in NLP use cases such as text classification, sentiment analysis, entity recognition (NER), semantic search, embeddings, or document understanding.
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Mandatory (Experience 5) - Must have experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT, LLaMA, Mistral, Phi, Claude, Gemini, or similar models.
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Mandatory (Experience 6) - Must have hands-on experience building or implementing Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions, vector search, semantic search, or knowledge-based AI applications.
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Mandatory (Experience 7) - Must have experience with Prompt Engineering and Generative AI frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, AI Agents, Azure OpenAI, or similar technologies.
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Mandatory (Experience 8) - Must have experience developing, consuming, or integrating APIs using Python frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or similar technologies.
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Mandatory (CTC) - The CTC breakup offered will be 75% fixed + 25% variable, as per company policy.
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Preferred (Experience 1) - Experience with LLMOps/MLOps tools for monitoring, evaluation, experimentation, and versioning of AI models.
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Preferred (Experience 2) - Exposure to Azure OpenAI, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Kubernetes, cloud-native AI deployments, or distributed systems.
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
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.
AI Engineer
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)
Job Title: Full Stack AI Engineer
Location: Remote/Hyderabad
Experience Level: 3-5
Salary Range: 12-18LPA
Application Link:https://beyond.ciltriq.com/apply/BUILD
Description:
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Strong full-stack foundations: frontend state management, asynchronous user experiences and performance; backend API design, authentication, data modelling, databases, queues and distributed systems.
Strong coding ability in Python and JavaScript or TypeScript, with practical experience in modern frontend frameworks and backend services.
Requirements:
- Design and build complete systems: frontend applications, backend services, APIs, databases, data pipelines and integrations with customer systems.
- Build multi-agent workflows with clear agent responsibilities, tool access, shared state, context management, routing, handoffs and coordination across sequential and parallel tasks.
- Make agent execution dependable through durable state, checkpoints, retries, timeouts, idempotency, recovery and human approval or review where needed.
- Deliver document-processing pipelines, voice agents and retrieval-based AI applications, connecting model outputs to useful actions in real business workflows.
- Own quality in production: automated tests, AI evaluations, guardrails, observability, access controls, deployments, incident response and clear documentation.
- Choose where AI adds value and where deterministic software is the better fit. Balance accuracy, latency, cost, security and maintainability.
- Improve reusable engineering foundations, review code and help other engineers grow as the team expands.
- A solid understanding of tool calling, structured outputs, retrieval, context and memory management, model selection and evaluation.
- Practical cloud and deployment experience, including containers, CI/CD, secrets management, logging, monitoring and production debugging.
- Ability to reason from first principles, investigate failures across system boundaries and communicate technical decisions clearly to customers and teammates.
- Useful additional experience: Document AI and OCR, real-time voice systems, enterprise integrations, agent protocols such as MCP, and orchestration frameworks.
- Useful additional experience: Mentoring engineers or building reusable platforms.
Full Stack Developer – AI/ML & GenAI
Location: Mumbai
Experience: 7–9 Years
Employment Type: Full-time
Virtual Drive: Saturday
We are looking for a Python Full Stack Developer with 3+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML and Generative AI.
Key Skills: Python Full Stack, FastAPI/Flask/Django, React/Angular, AI/ML, GenAI, LLMs, RAG, Embeddings, Vector Databases, Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), CI/CD, Docker & Kubernetes.













