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Ideal Candidate

What Makes You a Strong Fit

You approach marketing problems through the lens of pipeline and revenue, not just reach

You operate independently and hold yourself accountable to numbers

You're comfortable moving between strategy and execution without losing track of either

You communicate clearly with sales and revenue counterparts and adapt to their feedback

You bring structure to ambiguous situations rather than waiting for clarity to arrive

Role & Responsibilities

As a Senior GenAI Engineer you will own the AI layer of our product — building the features that make Zenskar intelligent. This is not a research role and not a prompt-engineering role. You will build production AI systems that enterprise clients depend on, which means reliability, observability, and rigorous evals matter as much as the AI capability itself. You own the full vertical — the model, the pipeline, and the UI.

• Build and own CS Copilot — a real-time assistant for customer success teams, spanning STT pipelines, live transcription, and LLM-powered suggestions
• Build LLM-powered document understanding features — extracting structured, reliable data from unstructured enterprise documents
• Own AI feature UIs end-to-end — you build the interface, not just the model integration layer
• Design and maintain an eval framework — define what 'working' means for each AI feature and catch regressions before users do
• Drive model selection and integration decisions — choosing the right provider and approach for each use case, managing latency and cost
• Own AI platform reliability — observability, fallback behaviour, and graceful degradation when models fail
• Work closely with product, customer success, and the full-stack engineer — AI features only matter if they are usable and trusted by real users

THE IMPACT YOU'LL MAKE-

• You will define what AI means at Zenskar — the features you ship will be the most visible and differentiated parts of the product
• CS Copilot, if done well, changes how enterprise customer success teams operate every single day — this is a high-stakes, high-visibility surface
• You will establish the engineering culture around AI reliability at Zenskar — evals, observability, and disciplined iteration
• Your work will directly accelerate enterprise deals — AI features are increasingly a buying criterion for our clients
• You will be the person who brings engineering rigour to a domain where most companies ship demos and call it a feature

Ideal Candidate

• Strong Senior GenAI / AI Backend Engineer Profiles
• Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 4+ years of total software development experience, with at least 2+ years working on AI/LLM-based features in production
• Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have strong backend engineering experience using Python (FastAPI / Django preferred) and building production-grade systems
• Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have hands-on experience building LLM-based applications, including OpenAI / Gemini / similar models in real projects
• Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have experience with RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) including chunking, embeddings, and retrieval pipelines
• Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have experience designing end-to-end AI pipelines, including chaining, tool usage, structured outputs, and handling failure cases
• Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have experience building agentic AI systems (multi-step workflows, tool orchestration like LangGraph / CrewAI or custom agents)
• Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have strong coding and system design skills, not just prompt engineering or experimentation
• Mandatory (Experience 8) – Must have experience shipping AI features in production, not just POCs or research projects
• Mandatory (Experience 9) – Must have experience working with APIs, backend services, and integrations
• Mandatory (Experience 10) – Must have understanding of AI system reliability, including latency, cost optimization, fallback handling, and basic eval thinking
• Mandatory (Company) – Product companies / startups, preferably Series A to Series D
• Mandatory (Note) - Candidate's overall experience should not be more than 7 Yrs
• Mandatory (Tech Stack) – Strong in Python + AI/LLM ecosystem, experience with modern AI tooling and frameworks
• Mandatory (Exclusion) – Reject profiles that are only Prompt Engineers, Data Scientists, or Frontend Engineers without strong backend + system building experience
• Preferred (Skill) – Experience with fine-tuning (LoRA / QLoRA) or open-source model deployment (vLLM / Ollama)
• Preferred (Frontend) – Basic ability to build or contribute to frontend (React or similar)
• Highly Preferred (Education) – Candidates from Tier-1 institutes (IITs, BITS, NITs, IIITs, top global universities)

In this dynamic role, you will be the crucial interpreter, ensuring a seamless flow of communication between our world-class cybersecurity engineers and strategic business stakeholders. You will leverage your technical acumen to produce clear, authoritative technical content, drive impactful marketing campaigns that highlight our security solutions, and build meaningful relationships within the wider cybersecurity developer ecosystem. This is your chance to turn deep technical understanding into clear, market-ready business value.

We are looking for an ideal candidate who is a creative problem solver at heart who thrives in a team environment.

You will work with the marketing and business development team to work on technical content, manage and oversee relationships with new and existing partners through high-touch networking, lead generation, and market research. Candidate is responsible to work with the Managing Partner and marketing team to scale the business and also help organize the internal processes. The role requires planning, direction, and most importantly execution to develop and grow revenue in accordance with targets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Liaisoning technical + business.

Create detailed and precise documentation including functional specifications, use cases, process flows, and system design documents.

Collaborate with technical team to generate content and marketing collaterals

Conduct thorough assessments to understand current business processes and identify areas for improvement.

Maintain and update documentation as project requirements evolve.

• Collaboration and Communication:
• Act as a liaison between technical teams and business stakeholders, ensuring a clear understanding of requirements and   expectations.
• Facilitate meetings, workshops, and presentations to communicate project status, findings, and recommendations.
• Solution Evaluation:
• Evaluate technical solutions to ensure they meet defined business requirements and objectives.
• Conduct thorough testing and validation to confirm the quality and functionality of developed solutions.
• Continuous Improvement:
• Stay updated on industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies relevant to our business processes.
• Proactively identify opportunities for process optimization and system enhancements.
• Working with the executive team to develop a comprehensive digital business strategy and assisting with its execution.
• Establishing a pipeline of core digital marketing activities and ensuring that the pipeline is aligned with the company’s revenue targets and digital marketing goals.
• Maintaining metrics and quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
• Assessing new business opportunities with a strong revenue target in mind.
• Identifying, exploring, and evaluating business opportunities, performing risk assessment, and mitigating potential risks.
• Gathering market and customer information.
• Engage with the technical team to identify new opportunities within existing client businesses or contacts. Maintain strong and prosperous working relationships with key clients.

Responsibilities

·       Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers

·       Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules

·       Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges

·       Integration of data storage solutions {may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.}

Requirements:

·       Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/ B.E/B.Tech/M.C.A or related field

·       Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks {such as Laravel, Codeigniter, etc depending on your technology stack}

·       Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP, MVC design patterns and object-oriented PHP programming

·       Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

·       Understanding accessibility and security compliance (Depending on the specific project)

·       Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

·       User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

·       Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes

·       Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages

·       Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

Responsibilities

Develop high quality, secure, stable code for use in products and solutions for

customers, making it easier for other developers to maintain, enhance, reuse,

and localize

Work with Product Owner and/or Product Manager/Team to understand and help

refine functional requirements for new products

Develop and outline architecture and relationships between subsystems and

participates in review of those designs

Investigate and, if necessary, prototype technologies and algorithms relating to

the task

Break down a large problem into smaller components and provide a clear

solution for each piece

Ensure new code, feature or software product meets performance goals/metrics

Research external best practices and emerging technologies for possible

incorporation into company products and methodologies

Write and maintain the code following Test-Driven-Design principles

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in any Engineering discipline from reputed engineering

college

5 to 7 years of strong programming skills in Web and Cloud Technologies

Should have a very strong foundation in JavaScript, and must have a clear

understanding of basic web fundamentals such as prototype based inheritance,

scopes, Event Loop, Memory Management in JS, etc

Should be good at developing modular front-end applications and is expected to

have the knowledge to create good abstractions that can be reused . Should also

have in-depth understanding of latest ES6 standards such as spread operators,

arrow functions, etc

Should have strong programming skills in Web and Cloud Technologies

Should be strong in OOAD Concepts

Should have a strong hands-on in React, Typescript

Should have Hands-on experience in any of the backend language.

Should understand latest paradigms in Front End Development such as Pub-Sub

Pattern, Redux, RxJS, Service Workers, Client Caching, Lazy Loading, Dynamic

Injection, Bundle Optimisation, etc

Should have very good hands-on knowledge of CSS3 & HTML5

Should have good knowledge of Postman API Platform

Should have experience with Amazon web services – ECS, Lambda, S3, SQS, etc

Should have Hands-on experience of developing RESTful web services and

integrating the same with heterogeneous clients

Should have Hands-on experience with Relational or NoSQL Database’s

Should have a very clear understanding of TDD is expected and should have

good exposure to writing UT's and designing UI components with testability in

mind

Should have Strong Communication and Analytical skills

Flexibility under changing conditions and the ability to multi-task between

projects

Preferred Qualifications

Hands-on experience with C++

Nice to have experience with Python

Nice to have experience with CI/CD tools like Docker, Jenkins, etc

Nice to have a hands-on & Understanding of CSS Pre-processors such as SASS,

LESS, etc

Responsibilities: 

• Responsible for monitoring project deliverables on day to day basis 
• Required to update relevant stakeholders or team members on the project's progress. 
• Assist, train, and ensure project team members with tasks that you have assigned to them. 
• Test the product modules and manage the change request, bug reports, etc. 
• Assist project managers in the planning, execution, and monitoring of projects Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, and progress reports. 
• Facilitate communication between intern stakeholders, clients, vendors, and management. 

Qualifications:

•  Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience. 
• 3+ years of relevant Project Management experience. 
• Strong verbal, written, and organizational skills for documentation, user stories, etc. 
• Proficient in MS Excel, and Presentation. Proficient in Jira, Confluence, and Notion is a plus. 
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills. 
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written. 
• Ability to work well in a team environment. 
• Experience with project management tools and software. 
• Ability to identify project risks and issues, and develop mitigation plans.