Lead RAG / Knowledge AI Engineer (Freelance)

AuxoAI is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to design and deploy structured knowledge systems that enable reliable, schema-grounded AI and agent reasoning.

This role sits at the intersection of large language models, knowledge graphs, semantic architectures, and hybrid retrieval systems. The ideal candidate will build systems that transform unstructured data into structured knowledge representations, enforce semantic constraints, and enable hybrid symbolic–neural reasoning in production environments.

You will play a key role in designing scalable semantic infrastructures that support advanced AI use cases such as GraphRAG pipelines, structured extraction, and agent reasoning workflows.

You will work on problems where existing architectures may not be sufficient and will experiment with new approaches that combine machine learning, knowledge graphs, semantic constraints, and classical AI techniques to build reliable, production-grade systems.

Location - Mumbai/Bangalore/Hyderabad/Gurgaon (Hybrid - 3 Days a week in Office)

Responsibilities:

• Design schema-guided information extraction systems using zero-shot and few-shot structured prompting, constrained decoding approaches such as JSON schema enforcement or grammar-based decoding, and function-calling or tool-driven extraction techniques.
• Develop recursive or multi-stage extraction pipelines capable of handling nested entities, hierarchical structures, and cross-document relationships.
• Build ontology-driven systems using frameworks such as LinkML, OWL, SHACL, or similar schema modeling tools, and implement knowledge representations using RDF triples or labeled property graphs.
• Design and optimize entity resolution algorithms using techniques such as blocking strategies, embedding similarity, and rule-based matching.
• Develop ontology alignment techniques and graph embedding models such as Node2Vec or TransE-style approaches where appropriate.
• Design hybrid retrieval architectures combining dense vector retrieval, sparse retrieval techniques, and graph traversal algorithms such as BFS, DFS, path ranking, and neighborhood expansion.
• Build validation systems that enforce schema conformance, detect semantic inconsistencies, and reduce hallucinated or invalid structured outputs.
• Integrate structured knowledge systems into GraphRAG pipelines, agent planning frameworks, and tool-selection workflows.
• Deliver production-grade semantic systems with clear targets for latency, scalability, reliability, and data integrity.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building production AI or machine learning systems.
• Strong experience designing and implementing knowledge graphs or ontology-driven architectures.
• Hands-on experience implementing structured extraction techniques, including grammar-constrained decoding, JSON schema enforcement, or AST-style parsing approaches.
• Experience building entity resolution systems beyond simple embedding similarity methods.
• Experience working with graph query languages such as SPARQL or Cypher and optimizing graph query performance.
• Familiarity with RDF, OWL, or property graph data models and semantic data architectures.
• Strong Python engineering skills, with emphasis on data validation, schema integrity, and system reliability.
• Experience designing hybrid symbolic and neural AI systems.

Nice to Have:

• Experience implementing graph algorithms such as PageRank, community detection, or shortest-path algorithms for reasoning chains.
• Experience building graph-enhanced retrieval systems such as GraphRAG.
• Experience designing compositional semantic extraction pipelines.
• Experience implementing reasoning engines or rule-based inference systems.
• Experience benchmarking and evaluating structural extraction accuracy and consistency.

Title                                 : Senior GenAI Engineer — RAG (Full-Stack)

Experience                    : 5+ years

Location                         : Remote

Work type                      : Chennai - Work from Office/ Remote – Other locations

Employment Type      : Full Time

Notice Period               : Immediate

Work Day                       :Mon to Fri

Key Responsibilities:

• RAG pipeline end to end: ingestion integration, hybrid retrieval with reranking, prompt/context strategy, citation resolution, refusal behavior
• Permission-aware retrieval: source ACL mapping (SharePoint/Entra, Confluence) to fail-closed retrieval filters; zero-leakage test suite partnership with QA
• Vector database design and operations (Milvus or pgvector): schema, metadata filters, sync, performance
• Full-stack product build: React/TypeScript chat and citation experience, Python/FastAPI services, REST APIs, SSO/OIDC integration, admin configuration UI
• Evaluation-driven development: retrieval precision, faithfulness, and citation-accuracy metrics as the daily working loop; A/B testing of retrieval and prompt variants
• Latency engineering to the 3–5s first-token / ~15s complete-answer targets at concurrency

Technical Skills:

• 5+ years software engineering with 2+ years building RAG/LLM applications in production — with real users and real quality metrics, not notebooks
• Deep retrieval craft: chunking strategy, embeddings, hybrid search, rerankers; you can explain why retrieval fails and how you measured the fix
• Genuine full-stack evidence: shipped React/TypeScript front ends AND Python back-end services in production; API design; OIDC/SAML integration
• Vector database production experience (Milvus, pgvector, Weaviate, or equivalent) including permission/metadata filtering
• Evaluation fluency: has built or operated a retrieval/answer quality harness with numeric thresholds

Strongly Preferred:

• Permission-aware/multi-tenant retrieval specifically; Microsoft Graph API; NIM/OpenAI-compatible serving endpoints; streaming UX; enterprise design systems; banking content domains

About Ampera: 

Ampera Technologies, a purpose driven Digital IT Services with primary focus on supporting our client with their Data, AI / ML, Accessibility and other Digital IT needs. We also ensure that equal opportunities are provided to Persons with Disabilities Talent. Ampera Technologies has its Global Headquarters in Chicago, USA and its Global Delivery Center is based out of Chennai, India. We are actively expanding our Tech Delivery team in Chennai and across India. We offer exciting benefits for our teams, such as 1) Hybrid and Remote work options available, 2) Opportunity to work directly with our Global Enterprise Clients, 3) Opportunity to learn and implement evolving Technologies, 4) Comprehensive healthcare, and 5) Conducive environment for Persons with Disability Talent meeting Physical and Digital Accessibility standards 

🔹 Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI/ML and Generative AI solutions

• Work on GEO, AEO, and SGE initiatives to improve visibility across AI-driven search platforms

• Optimize content and digital experiences for conversational queries and LLM-based search

• Develop solutions using LLMs, NLP, embeddings, semantic search, RAG, and vector databases

• Analyze search intent, AI-generated responses, citations, retrieval patterns, and content discoverability

• Build frameworks to measure GEO/AEO strategies and AI-search performance

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Content, SEO, Marketing, and Business teams

• Improve solution accuracy, relevance, latency, and user experience

🔹 Mandatory Requirements

✅ 1–4 years of professional experience

✅ Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience in GEO, AEO, or SGE

✅ Experience with prompt engineering, embeddings, vector search, or RAG systems

✅ Understanding of semantic search and entity-based optimization

✅ Exposure to ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or similar LLM platforms

✅ Knowledge of schema, context building, content structuring, and knowledge representation

🎓 Preferred Education

B.Tech, M.Tech, Integrated M.Sc., or MS from a Tier-1 engineering institute such as IIT, NIT, BITS, VIT, DTU, or NSUT.

Strong AI Engineer / Machine Learning Engineer profiles.

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Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience in Data Science, Machine Learning, Applied AI, NLP, Deep Learning, or Generative AI solutions.

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Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have strong hands-on experience in Python programming, SQL, data analysis, feature engineering, model development, and production-grade ML applications.

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Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have experience working with Machine Learning and Deep Learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Scikit-learn, or equivalent.

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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

🚨 Hiring – Data Scientist | Python + Agentic AI

💼 Experience: 5+ Years

Must Have:

• Strong Data Science experience

• Python

• Agentic AI / AI Agents

• Generative AI / LLMs

• RAG / Vector Databases

• LangChain / LangGraph or similar Agent Frameworks

• Machine Learning & NLP

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:

1. Go where the work happens. You work onsite with the customer, in the room where decisions are made.
2. Show working software early. You build a prototype in days, not a document in weeks.
3. One person owns the outcome. You are the single point of accountability for the result.
4. 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

1. Discovery - Learn how the customer makes money. Find the highest value problem to solve first.
2. The prototype - Build a working prototype fast, using real or sample data, to prove the idea.
3. The roadmap - Decide what to build, in what order, and set clear success measures tied to business outcomes.
4. The build - Design and ship the production system with the Hyderabad engineering team. This includes data integration, agents, retrieval, and evaluations.
5. The client relationship - Be the trusted technical contact for the customer, from engineers to senior leaders.
6. Go live and after - Deploy the system, watch how it performs, fix problems, and improve it over time.
7. 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

1. Around 4 or more years of software engineering experience, including customer-facing or client delivery work.
2. Strong programming skills in Python. Working knowledge of TypeScript or JavaScript.
3. A full-stack development experience with strength in backend technologies.
4. Production experience with large language models, including prompt engineering and agent development.
5. 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.
6. Experience building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems: chunking, embeddings, vector databases, retrieval, and reranking.
7. Experience building and deploying AI systems.
8. Experience integrating with APIs and enterprise systems.
9. Experience with at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
10. Clear communication. You can explain a technical choice to an engineer and to a business leader.
11. High ownership and comfort with ambiguity. You can take an unclear problem and turn it into a plan.
12. Willingness to work onsite at client locations in India for extended periods, and to travel as the work needs.

Nice to have

1. Experience with on-premises or private cloud (VPC) deployments.
2. Experience with observability and tracing tools such as LangSmith or Braintrust.
3. Experience with data engineering and pipelines.
4. A history of side projects, open source contributions, or products you shipped end-to-end.
5. Experience in embedded or forward-deployed roles before.
6. Experience working at a consulting or professional services firm in a client-facing delivery role.

Stack and tools

1. Languages: Python and TypeScript.
2. Models: Claude and other frontier or open-source models, chosen to fit the customer.
3. AI patterns: RAG, agents, prompt engineering, and evaluations.
4. Vector and retrieval: vector databases and retrieval pipelines.
5. Cloud: AWS, Azure, or GCP, on public or private cloud.
6. Integration: REST APIs and enterprise system connectors.

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Mandatory (Experience 1) - Must have 3+ years of hands-on experience in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, or Generative AI application development.

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Mandatory (Experience 2) - Must have strong hands-on experience in Python programming, backend development, API development, and production-grade application support.

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Mandatory (Experience 3) - Must have experience working with Machine Learning and Deep Learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, or Scikit-learn.

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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.

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 

Experience - 4 to 6 year

Location – Ahmedabad/Pune/Indore

• Additional Job Description

Additional Job Description

Required Skills and Experience: 

• Strong proficiency in Python and experience with ML/AI libraries (scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face ecosystem).
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG, vector databases, and retrieval pipelines.
• Practical experience deploying agentic workflows and building multi-step, tool-enabled agents.
• Experience using Garak (or similar LLM red-teaming/vulnerability scanners) to identify model weaknesses and harden deployments.
• Demonstrated experience implementing content filtering / moderation systems.
• Solid skills working with structured and unstructured data and advanced feature engineering.
• Familiarity with cloud GenAI platforms and services (Azure AI Services preferred; AWS/GCP acceptable).
• Experience building APIs/microservices; containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Strong understanding of model evaluation, performance profiling, inference cost optimization, and observability.
• Good knowledge of security, data governance, and privacy best practices for AI systems.

Company: ContexQ

Location: Singapore / India / Malaysia (Remote/Hybrid)

At ContexQ, we are fundamentally reshaping the emerging landscape of Contextual Decision Intelligence. We leverage cutting-edge composite AI, Vector Search, and advanced graph technology to resolve billions of entities continuously. By uncovering hidden relationships, we revolutionize how global enterprises handle fraud detection, financial crime (AML), risk management, and supply chain intelligence.

We are an ambitious, fast-moving startup taking on massive enterprise big data challenges, and we are looking for a Founding Knowledge Graph Scientist to push the boundaries of what is possible in semantic data resolution and network graph AI.

This is not a traditional corporate research role. We are looking for an elite AI researcher and practitioner with a PhD and the DNA of an entrepreneur—someone who can architect novel Graph Transformer architectures, develop cutting-edge explainable AI (XAI) models for fraud detection, and translate deep academic expertise into high-impact enterprise solutions. You will be at the forefront of designing the intelligence engine that protects global financial institutions from complex, coordinated financial crimes.

THE MISSION

As our Founding Knowledge Graph Scientist, you are the intellectual and technical force behind our core AI reasoning engine. You will bridge the gap between state-of-the-art academic research in graph neural networks and the practical, high-throughput demands of enterprise anti-money laundering (AML) and fraud detection systems.

Your ultimate metric is the accuracy, efficiency, and explainability of our graph-based AI models. You will architect proprietary knowledge graph structures, implement advanced Graph Transformer models (like FraudGT or similar architectures), and create the analytical "awe factor" that proves to C-suite banking executives that ContexQ can catch financial crime that legacy systems miss.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Architect the Graph: Design and optimize large-scale financial knowledge graphs that capture complex temporal, spatial, and transactional relationships across billions of nodes and edges to detect collusion and laundering behaviors.

• Pioneer AI Models: Develop, train, and deploy advanced Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Graph Transformers specifically tailored for highly imbalanced, large-scale financial data.

• Drive XAI in FinCrime: Champion model transparency by building explainable AI mechanisms that allow compliance officers to understand exactly why a transaction or entity was flagged, ensuring strict adherence to global banking regulations.

• Bridge Research & Product: Act as the crucial link between theoretical AI research and our core product roadmap. Publish findings, stay ahead of state-of-the-art fraud detection methodologies, and directly implement these breakthroughs into the ContexQ platform.

• Collaborate Across Teams: Work seamlessly with Data Engineering, MLOps, and Business Analysts to ensure your graph models are deployed efficiently, scale securely, and directly address the pain points of our enterprise clients.

WHO YOU ARE

• The Deep Expert: You hold a PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, or a closely related field, with a heavy research focus on Knowledge Graphs, Graph Neural Networks, or Graph Transformers.

• Domain Specialized: You possess deep expertise (either academic or applied) in utilizing graph analytics for anomaly detection, specifically within the realms of Financial Crime, Fraud detection, or cybersecurity.

• A Proven Builder: You have a track record of translating complex AI theory into functional code (PyTorch, PyTorch Geometric, DGL). You are not just a theoretician; you can build, test, and optimize models for real-world deployment.

• A Master Communicator: You can distill complex mathematical concepts and graph topologies into clear, compelling narratives for both highly technical engineering teams and non-technical business stakeholders.

COMPENSATION & THE CONTEXQ UPSIDE

We are explicitly looking for top-tier research and engineering talent who wants to bet on themselves, act as true owners, and build foundational technology.

We structure compensation to heavily reward dedication, innovation, and long-term impact. In exchange for your deep expertise and technical leadership, we offer competitive compensation, significant early-stage foundational equity worth up to $1,000,000 USD over time, a high-impact remote-first culture, and a structure designed to directly align your wealth creation with the platform's enterprise valuation.

This role is designed for an AI pioneer who wants real skin in the game. If you are looking for a purely academic sandbox with no commercial pressure, this isn't for you. If you want the massive upside of building an enterprise AI juggernaut from the ground up and sharing directly in the value you create by stopping global financial crime, you belong at ContexQ.