Lead AI Engineer

Job Description – AI Engineer (End-to-End Development & Deployment)

Role Summary

We are looking for an AI Engineer with hands-on experience in designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining Generative/Agentic AI solutions in production. The ideal candidate should have end-to-end ownership of AI applications, from development to deployment, monitoring, and optimization.

Key Responsibilities

●        Design, build, and deploy Generative/Agentic AI solutions.

●        Develop applications using LLMs, RAG, AI agents, and vector databases.

●        Build scalable APIs and integrate AI solutions with enterprise applications.

●        Implement CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and MLOps best practices.

●        Monitor, optimize, and maintain production AI systems.

●        Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver business-driven AI solutions.

Required Skills

●       Strong programming skills in Python.

●       Experience with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, FAISS, ChromaDB) and graph memory systems

●       Knowledge of atleast one agent development framework: Google ADK (preferred), LangChain/LangGraph/LlamaIndex, CrewAI

●       Experience with LLMs, RAG, GenAI, AgenticAI Agents

●       Hands-on experience with FastAPI, and REST APIs.

●       Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD.

●       Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP. 

●       Experience with security compliance, monitoring and observability tools such as AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Google Cloud Monitoring.

Applied AI Engineer

About the Role

We are building an AI-powered platform that transforms credit origination by automating manual processes and enabling lenders to underwrite more loans with greater accuracy and lower risk.

We are looking for an experienced Applied AI Engineer to design and build production-grade Agentic AI systems capable of complex, multi-step reasoning across financial data, legal documents, and other unstructured information.

As an early engineering team member, you will take ownership of core AI architecture, multi-agent orchestration, reasoning workflows, evaluation frameworks, and scalable AI infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop stateful, multi-agent AI systems for complex reasoning and decision-making.
• Build and optimize LLM pipelines using frameworks such as LangChain, DSPy, and GEPA.
• Implement RAG, prompt optimization, memory management, tool integration, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Develop AI evaluation frameworks using LLM-as-a-Judge and scenario-based testing.
• Implement AI observability and monitoring to track accuracy, latency, cost, and system performance.
• Build ETL pipelines and work with structured and unstructured data, SQL/NoSQL databases, vector databases, and graph-based data models.
• Integrate external tools and systems using modern agent protocols such as Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Deploy and maintain AI services on AWS or Azure.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code for reliable production deployments.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience in Python or JavaScript.
• Proven experience building and deploying production-level Agentic AI systems or complex LLM reasoning applications.
• Hands-on experience with LangChain and LLMOps, including tools such as Langfuse, Weights & Biases (W&B), or Helicone.
• Strong understanding of LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, multi-agent orchestration, memory management, and tool calling.
• Experience with DSPy, GEPA, or advanced LLM inference and optimization techniques.
• Strong data engineering fundamentals, including ETL, SQL/NoSQL databases, and vector databases.
• Familiarity with MCP and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Experience with AWS or Azure and modern DevOps practices, including Docker, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.

Good to Have

• Experience with RLHF or RLAIF.
• Knowledge of model fine-tuning techniques such as LoRA and QLoRA.
• Experience with graph databases and graph-based data models.
• Exposure to financial services, credit underwriting, risk analysis, or document-intensive AI applications.

Why Join Us?

• Work on advanced Agentic AI and complex reasoning systems beyond conventional chatbot applications.
• Build foundational AI architecture and production-grade LLM workflows.
• Take ownership of technical decisions and system design as an early engineering team member.
• Solve challenging problems at the intersection of AI, finance, and intelligent automation.

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.

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.

Design and develop Agentic AI systems using LLMs, tools, memory,

workflows, and MCP.

Build production-grade RAG pipelines, including ingestion, chunking,

embeddings, retrieval, reranking, and evaluation.

Implement context engineering strategies for improving LLM accuracy,

relevance, and reliability.

Develop and integrate MCP-based tools and services for AI agents.

Work with LLMs, SLMs, quantized models, and model optimization

techniques for efficient inference.

Develop scalable backend services and APIs for AI applications.

Design databases and data models supporting AI/agentic applications.

Implement AI observability covering latency, token usage, cost, failures,

quality, and agent/tool execution.

Apply AI governance and responsible AI practices, including security,

access control, data privacy, and auditability.

Optimize AI systems for latency, scalability, cost, and reliability.

Collaborate with engineering and product teams to take AI solutions from

POC to production.

Strong hands-on experience with GenAI, LLMs, and Agentic AI.

Experience building RAG applications.

Strong understanding of Context Engineering and prompt/context

optimization.

Role Overview

We are looking for a hands-on AI/ML Engineer to design, develop, and deploy

production-ready GenAI and Agentic AI applications. The role involves building

intelligent agents, RAG pipelines, AI APIs, backend services, and scalable AI

infrastructure with a strong focus on context engineering, observability,

governance, and model optimisation.

Key Responsibilities

Required Skills

Practical experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol).

Experience with frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph,

LlamaIndex, or equivalent.

Knowledge of LLM/SLM deployment and quantization techniques.

Strong Python backend development experience.

Experience developing REST APIs using FastAPI/Flask or equivalent.

Strong understanding of SQL/NoSQL databases and database design.

Experience with vector databases such as Qdrant, Pinecone, Weaviate,

ChromaDB, or FAISS.

Understanding of AI observability, evaluation, monitoring, and

governance.

Experience with cloud platforms and production deployment is preferred.

Strong understanding of software engineering principles, Git, testing, and

CI/CD.

Job Description:

We are looking for a hands-on AI Engineer with experience in Generative AI and Agentic AI to build and deploy production-ready AI solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and deploy GenAI and Agentic AI applications.
• Build RAG pipelines, LLM workflows, and AI agents.
• Develop solutions using Python, LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or similar frameworks.
• Implement tool calling, context retrieval, and LLM orchestration.
• Integrate AI solutions with APIs and cloud platforms.
• Work with AWS/Azure/GCP, Docker, and CI/CD.

Required Skills:

• Strong Python programming skills.
• 3+ years of GenAI/Agentic AI experience.
• RAG and LLM orchestration.
• LangChain / LangGraph / LlamaIndex / AutoGen / CrewAI / Semantic Kernel.
• MCP and A2A knowledge.
• Cloud, APIs, Docker, and CI/CD experience.

Preferred Experience:

Hands-on experience building and deploying production-ready AI solutions.

About the role

We are building AI systems that read, understand and act on real business documents, bank statements, financial reports, policy documents and forms and putting them into production where accuracy and cost both matters.

This is not a research role and it is not a prompt-writing role. You will own features end to end: pick and deploy open-source models, build the pipelines around them, measure whether they actually work on our documents, drive the cost per document down, and keep the whole thing running in production.

You will work closely with the engineering and product teams, and your work will be directly used by business users from day one.

What you will do

Deploy and evaluate open-source models

• Select, deploy and benchmark open-source LLMs and vision-language models for specific, narrow use cases not general chat.
• Build evaluation sets from real documents and define what "good" means numerically (field-level accuracy, extraction recall, hallucination rate) before shipping.
• Run structured comparisons between models and approaches, and write up the trade-offs so the team can make a decision.
• Apply quantization, batching and other optimizations to fit models into a sensible GPU budget.

Build and optimize AI orchestration

• Design multi-step pipelines that combine deterministic code, ML models and LLM calls and know when not to use an LLM.
• Optimize for latency, cost and reliability: caching, batching, request routing, fallback tiers, retries and graceful degradation.
• Instrument pipelines so failures are visible and traceable rather than silent.

Ship to production

• Package models and services with Docker, expose them behind clean APIs, and deploy them to our GPU and CPU infrastructure.
• Handle the unglamorous production concerns: cold starts, timeouts, concurrency limits, versioning, rollback and monitoring.
• Own on-call-style responsibility for the AI features you build, including cost tracking.

Must-have skills

Programming & engineering

• Strong Python: type hints, async/await, dataclasses/Pydantic, clean module design, testing.
• REST API development with FastAPI (or Flask/Django with a willingness to move to FastAPI).
• Git, code review discipline, and the ability to write code someone else can maintain.
• Comfortable in Linux and on the command line.

Machine learning fundamentals

• Working knowledge of PyTorch and the Hugging Face ecosystem (transformers, tokenizers, accelerate).
• Understanding of inference-time concepts: tokenization, context windows, batching, precision (FP16/BF16/INT8), memory footprint.
• Ability to read a model card and a paper well enough to judge whether a model fits a use case.

Document processing

• Hands-on experience with at least two of: pypdfium2, PyMuPDF, pdfplumber, pdfminer.six, Docling, Unstructured, Surya, DocTR, LayoutLM family.
• Practical OCR experience (Tesseract, PaddleOCR, or a cloud OCR) and an understanding of when OCR is the wrong tool.
• Experience extracting tables from PDFs and dealing with merged cells, multi-line rows, and inconsistent column layouts.

Strongly preferred

You will be a much stronger candidate with any of these. We do not expect all of them.

Model serving & optimization

• vLLM, TGI, Ollama, llama.cpp, or Triton Inference Server.
• Quantization formats and tooling: GGUF, AWQ, GPTQ, bitsandbytes, ONNX Runtime, INT8 export.
• Serverless GPU platforms: Modal, RunPod, Replicate, Baseten including cold-start and container-lifecycle management.
• LoRA / QLoRA fine-tuning with PEFT for narrow, task-specific improvements.

Vision-language models

• Practical use of open VLMs: Qwen2.5-VL, InternVL, Granite Vision, Molmo, Phi-Vision, or similar.
• Awareness of where VLMs hallucinate especially on numeric and financial content and patterns for constraining them (using the model for layout only, sourcing values from the text layer, constrained decoding).

Orchestration & pipelines

• Workflow orchestration: Dagster, Airflow, Prefect, or Temporal.
• Async job patterns: Celery, RQ, or platform-native spawn/poll patterns.
• LLM orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Haystack) with the judgement to know when plain Python is a better answer.
• Structured output enforcement: Instructor, Outlines, XGrammar, JSON schema / tool-use modes.

Evaluation & observability

• Building golden datasets and regression suites for extraction tasks.
• Eval tooling: promptfoo, DeepEval, Ragas, or in-house harnesses.
• LLM tracing and monitoring: Langfuse, Arize Phoenix, LangSmith, OpenTelemetry.

Nice extras

• Rule engines and policy evaluation (Open Policy Agent / Rego, Drools, rule-engine).
• Experience in fintech, lending, insurance or accounting documents.
• Handling of PII and data-security practices in document pipelines.
• Contributions to open-source ML or document-processing projects.

Why join us

• Real production ownership from month one your work goes to actual users, not a demo.
• Genuinely hard technical problems in document AI, not wrappers over an API.
• Small team, short decision cycles, direct access to leadership.
• Budget and freedom to evaluate and adopt new open-source models as they land.

To apply: send your CV along with a short note on one AI system you have taken to production what it did, what the accuracy was, and what broke.

Support with design and build to prove out agentic AI solution flow by working with other data 

scientists and engineers to build, train Large Language Model (LLM) architectures, RAG 

systems, and autonomous agentic workflows 

Key qualifications: 

>> AI solution design & Development: Design Agentic AI solutions using RAG (Retrieval-

Augmented Generation) and orchestration frameworks like LangGraph or LangChain. 

>> Model Fine-Tuning: Solid understanding and experience with Pre-train, fine-tune, and 

optimize open-source like BERT, LLama, and other proprietary foundation models for domain-

specific tasks 

>> Solid Stats and ML foundations and (vibe) coding skills with Python, PySpark 

>>  Implement validation frameworks and tracing practices (using tools like Arize) to monitor 

agent behavior, guard against model drift, and ensure compliance 

>> Collaborate with Engineering to deploy models securely on cloud and on-prem ecosystems 

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)

Senior AI Engineer

Code Generation, Agent Architecture & LLM Systems

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

About the Role:

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

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

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

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

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

Responsibilities:

Agent Architecture

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

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

Code Generation Pipeline

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

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

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

Self-Repair Loop

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

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

Context Management

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

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

Own token budgeting and prompt caching strategy.

Prompt Engineering as a Discipline

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

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

Version prompts like code with changelogs and rollback capability.

Evaluation and Quality Measurement

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

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

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

This responsibility is non-negotiable at this level.

Model Strategy and Cost

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

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

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

Safety and Reliability of Agent Behaviour

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

Ensure secrets never appear in generated client code.

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

Contribute to output moderation and abuse-pattern awareness.

Mentorship and Engineering Standards

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

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

Requirements:

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

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

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

5+ Years of Professional Software or AI Engineering Experience

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

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

Strong Python Proficiency and Service Development

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

Not notebook-only.

Depth Across LLM APIs and Agent Systems

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

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

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

Demonstrated, Systematic Evaluation Practice - Non-Negotiable

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

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

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

Cost Discipline for Production AI

Track record of measurable cost optimisation on production AI features.

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

AWS Working Knowledge

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

Comfort with CI/CD workflows and deploying AI services.

Awareness of LLM Security Failure Modes

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

Nice to Have

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