Product Lead or Tech Lead (AI & Infrastructure) 5+ Experience

Role Overview 

We are looking for an AI Engineer to design, build, and ship production AI systems, including agentic AI applications, for enterprise clients. This is a hands-on engineering role: you will write production code, build and evaluate models and agents, and work closely with architects and product teams to take solutions from prototype to scale. 

Key Responsibilities 

Design and build agentic AI systems: agent workflows, tool/function-calling, memory, and human-in-the-loop patterns. Build and productionise RAG pipelines, prompt-based applications, and LLM integrations across providers. Develop and maintain data and ML pipelines: feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and monitoring. Integrate AI systems with enterprise applications (CRMs, ERPs, ITSM tools) via APIs, events, and MCP-based tool servers. Implement guardrails, prompt-injection defences, and evaluation frameworks to keep AI systems safe and reliable in production. 

Write clean, tested, production-grade code and participate actively in code and design reviews. 

Collaborate with architects, product managers, and delivery teams to translate requirements into working AI solutions. Troubleshoot and optimise AI systems for accuracy, latency, and cost in production. 

Required Qualifications 

8–12 years of hands-on software engineering experience, with a strong, unbroken technical track record. Hands-on experience building and shipping AI/ML systems in production, not just POCs. 

Practical experience with agentic AI systems and at least one major agent framework (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenAI Agents SDK, Bedrock Agents/Strands, or Semantic Kernel). 

Experience with LLM/GenAI systems: RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, structured outputs, and tool calling across providers. 

Strong Python skills (TypeScript/Node.js a plus), with production-grade testing, CI/CD, and API design practices. Working knowledge of ML fundamentals: model evaluation, feature engineering, and experimentation. Cloud-native experience on AWS and/or Azure: containers, serverless, event backbones, and vector databases. Understanding of LLM safety and reliability practices: guardrails, prompt-injection defences, and observability. 

Job Description: Tech Lead – AI & Technology

Role Title: Tech Lead – AI & Technology

Location: Bangalore, India – Fully On-site

Experience: 5+ Years

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced and hands-on Tech Lead to lead a small engineering team and drive the development of AI-powered applications, internal technology platforms, and modern IT solutions. The Tech Lead will be responsible for technical direction, architecture, development, code quality, team management, and end-to-end delivery of technology projects. The ideal candidate should have strong programming experience, particularly in Python and ReactJS, along with practical experience working with AI/ML technologies.

1. Technical Leadership & Team Management

• Lead and mentor a team of developers and technical team members.
• Own technical delivery across multiple projects and initiatives.
• Assign tasks, review progress, resolve technical blockers, and ensure timely delivery.
• Conduct code reviews and establish engineering best practices.
• Mentor team members and support their technical growth.

2. Software Development & Architecture

• Design and develop scalable, secure, and maintainable applications.
• Lead backend development using Python and frontend development using ReactJS.
• Define application architecture, technology choices, APIs, integrations, and development standards.
• Review technical designs and ensure high-quality implementation.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues and drive effective solutions.

3. AI & Technology

• Lead the development and integration of AI-powered applications and solutions.
• Work with AI/ML models, APIs, LLMs, Generative AI, and related technologies.
• Evaluate emerging AI tools and technologies and identify opportunities for practical implementation.
• Collaborate with product and business teams to translate requirements into AI-enabled technology solutions.

4. Project Delivery

• Own the complete technology lifecycle from requirements and architecture to development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Plan sprints, estimate development efforts, and track technical milestones.
• Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
• Ensure projects meet timelines, quality standards, security requirements, and performance expectations.

5. Engineering Quality & Infrastructure

• Establish standards for coding, testing, documentation, version control, and deployment.
• Ensure applications are scalable, reliable, and secure. l Collaborate on cloud infrastructure, APIs, databases, CI/CD, and deployment processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve system performance and engineering efficiency.

Technical Skills – Must Have

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Python.
• Strong experience with ReactJS / React.
• Experience leading or managing technical team members.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML and Generative AI technologies.
• Experience with APIs, databases, Git, and software development lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of application architecture and system design.
• Experience building and deploying production-grade applications.

Technical Skills – Good to Have

• Experience with LLMs, RAG, AI agents, or Generative AI applications.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with Docker, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
• Experience integrating third-party AI APIs and services.
• Experience working in startups or fast-paced technology environments.

What We Are Looking For

• Strong technical ownership and problem-solving ability.
• Ability to balance hands-on coding with team leadership.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to mentor developers and drive accountability within the team
• Strong interest in AI and emerging technologies.
• A proactive, ownership-driven approach with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Why Join Us?

• Work on AI-powered technology with meaningful social impact.
• Lead a small, high-ownership technology team.
• Work across AI, software engineering, and modern IT infrastructure.
• Opportunity to shape technology architecture and engineering practices from the ground up.
• Collaborative and fast-moving environment with significant technical ownership.

Kody Technolab Limited

AI/ML Lead (7+ Years Experience)

Location: Ahmedabad / Gandhinagar

Experience: 7+ Years

Employment Type: Full-Time

Kody Technolab Limited is seeking an experienced AI/ML Engineer to design, develop, and deploy

cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning solutions. The ideal candidate will have

strong expertise in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Generative AI, LLMs, MLOps, and

cloud-based AI deployments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy Machine Learning and Deep Learning models for classification,

regression, recommendation systems, NLP, Computer Vision, and Generative AI applications.

• Build and maintain end-to-end ML pipelines including data preprocessing, feature

engineering, model training, validation, evaluation, and deployment.

• Develop AI solutions using PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, Hugging Face, and related

frameworks.

• Work with Large Language Models (LLMs) and foundation models such as GPT, BERT, Llama,

Claude, and Stable Diffusion.

• Collaborate with product, engineering, and business teams to translate requirements into

scalable AI solutions.

• Optimize model performance, scalability, and reliability for production environments.

• Implement MLOps best practices using tools such as MLflow, Docker, Kubernetes, and Kubeflow.

• Stay updated with emerging trends and research in AI, ML, Deep Learning, and Generative AI.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence,

Mathematics, or a related field.

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML product development.

• Strong proficiency in Python and ML frameworks including Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and

Hugging Face.

• Experience with Generative AI, LLMs, GANs, VAEs, diffusion models, and prompt engineering.

• Strong understanding of the ML lifecycle including model training, tuning, deployment,

monitoring, and optimization.

• Experience with MLOps tools such as MLflow, Docker, Kubeflow, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud platforms.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.Preferred Skills

• Fine-tuning and deployment of Large Language Models.

• Experience with RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) architectures.

• Contributions to open-source AI projects or research publications.

• Knowledge of model interpretability, data annotation, and feature engineering.

• C++ experience for high-performance AI applications.

Why Join Kody Technolab Limited?

Opportunity to work on innovative AI products, Generative AI solutions, robotics integrations,

and enterprise-scale applications while collaborating with a highly skilled technology team.

Visit the Website to know more about us.

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Product Engineer — Role Summary

We are looking for a Product Engineer to build user-facing products that combine AI capabilities with practical applications. You will work at the intersection of software engineering and AI, developing autonomous, agent-driven systems that solve complex educational and research problems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Development: Design, build, and deploy production-ready applications powered by LLMs and AI agents.
• Data Engineering: Build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines to process structured and unstructured data, including text and audio, for RAG and model fine-tuning.
• Agentic Workflows: Develop multi-step AI agents with tool calling, APIs, databases, search, reasoning, and memory.
• Rapid Prototyping: Turn ideas and research concepts into interactive, production-ready applications.
• AI Integration: Use frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, or custom orchestrators to integrate AI into scalable systems.
• User Experience: Transform raw AI outputs into reliable, intuitive, and responsive user experiences.
• Collaboration: Work closely with ML researchers and data engineers to integrate custom and fine-tuned models.
• Observability: Monitor agent behavior, manage edge cases, reduce hallucinations, and improve reliability in production.

The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering, AI/LLM expertise, data engineering, and product thinking, with the ability to take an AI concept from prototype to production.

About the Role

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

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

Example Project

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

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

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

Key Responsibilities

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

Ideal Candidate Profile

Experience Requirements

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

Technical Expertise

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

Role Overview:

As an AI Executor/AI Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and integrating AI capabilities into production systems using Python and key ML libraries. This role requires a strong backend development foundation and a proven track record of deploying AI use cases using tools like TensorFlow, Keras, or OpenAI APIs. You'll work cross-functionally to deliver scalable AI-driven solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop backend solutions using Python, with a focus on AI-driven features.
• Implement and integrate AI/ML models using tools like OpenAI, Hugging Face, or Lang Chain.
• Use core Python libraries (NumPy, Pandas, TensorFlow, Keras) to process data, train, or implement models.
• Translate business needs into AI use cases and deliver working solutions.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams to define integration workflows.
• Develop REST APIs and micro services to deploy AI components within applications.
• Maintain and optimize AI systems for scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Keep pace with advancements in the AI/ML landscape and evaluate tools for continuous improvement.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 2+ years of professional experience as an AI/ML Engineer, including strong backend development expertise in Python.
• Proficiency in libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, TensorFlow, and Keras
• Practical exposure to AI platforms/APIs (e.g., OpenAI, LangChain, Hugging Face)
• Solid understanding of REST APIs, micro services, and integration practices
• Ability to work independently in a remote setup with strong communication and ownership
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging capabilities
• Experience with the MERN stack will be an added advantage.

We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Lead who can own backend engineering, DevOps, and delivery management.

This is not a coordination-only role. You will contribute technically while establishing the processes, accountability, and

operating rhythm needed for predictable delivery. You will manage multiple engineers and effectively use AI coding

agents and automation tools to improve the team's output without compromising quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the architecture, development, deployment, and reliability of our backend systems.

• Lead engineers through clear goals, task breakdowns, ownership, reviews, and regular feedback.

• Establish a process-oriented delivery system covering planning, estimation, execution, testing, release, and

retrospectives.

• Translate product requirements into technical plans, milestones, dependencies, and measurable deliverables.

• Track execution proactively, identify delivery risks early, and communicate status clearly.

• Remain hands-on with critical development, debugging, architecture, code reviews, and production issues.

• Own CI/CD, infrastructure, observability, deployment practices, and operational readiness.

• Improve engineering quality through coding standards, automated testing, documentation, and review processes.

• Delegate work effectively across team members according to their strengths and development needs.

• Use AI coding agents and engineering automation to parallelise suitable work, while reviewing and validating all

outputs.

• Build a culture of accountability in which work has clear owners, acceptance criteria, deadlines, and definitions of

done.

• Collaborate closely with product and business stakeholders to balance speed, scope, quality, and technical debt.

What We Are Looking For

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience.

• At least 2 years of experience leading or managing an engineering team.

• Strong hands-on backend development experience with Python, FastAPI, Django + Django REST Framework, and

PostgreSQL.

• Practical experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), DevOps, CI/CD, containers (Docker), monitoring, and

production operations.

• Experience working in a mature, process-oriented engineering environment.

• Demonstrated ability to improve delivery predictability and engineering throughput.

• Strong understanding of agile planning, estimation, sprint execution, incident management, and retrospectives.

• Ability to manage multiple people and concurrent streams of work.

• Experience reviewing architecture, pull requests, test plans, and production-readiness requirements.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to give direct, constructive feedback and hold team members accountable.

• Sound judgement about when to build, delegate, automate, or reduce scope.

Tech Stack

Must-have: Python, FastAPI, Django + Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy (async) + asyncpg, Pydantic,

REST API design + JWT authentication, Docker, AWS (ECS, ALB, ECR, CloudWatch, S3, Secrets Manager), Git.

Strongly preferred: Redis, Elasticsearch / OpenSearch, WebSockets, Payment gateways (Razorpay / Cashfree), Third-

party / ERP integrations, CI/CD (AWS CodeBuild or GitHub Actions).

Nice-to-have: Frappe / ERPNext + MariaDB, Microservices architecture, PostHog / CleverTap / Firebase, B2B e-commerce

or order management experience.

AI-Assisted Engineering

The ideal candidate should be comfortable incorporating AI into the software-development lifecycle. This includes:

• Breaking work into tasks that can be delegated safely to coding agents.

• Running multiple human and agent-led workstreams concurrently.

• Providing agents with clear context, constraints, and acceptance criteria.

• Reviewing generated code for correctness, security, maintainability, and architectural fit.

• Using automation to accelerate testing, documentation, refactoring, and operational workflows.

• Measuring whether AI tooling produces genuine delivery improvements.

We do not expect blind reliance on generated output. The Engineering Lead remains accountable for the quality and

correctness of everything shipped by the team.

Success in the First 90 Days

• Understand the existing architecture, infrastructure, team capabilities, and delivery bottlenecks.

• Take ownership of backend and DevOps execution.

• Introduce a consistent planning, tracking, review, and release cadence.

• Establish visibility into ownership, progress, dependencies, and delivery risks.

• Improve CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and production-readiness practices.

• Create an effective delegation model across engineers and AI agents.

• Deliver at least one meaningful product or platform milestone predictably from planning through production.

Nice to Have

• Experience scaling an early-stage or growing engineering team.

• Experience hiring, mentoring, and performance-managing engineers.

• Experience with infrastructure as code, security practices, and cloud-cost optimisation.

• Experience managing migrations, reliability improvements, or legacy-system modernisation.

• Previous experience introducing AI-assisted development workflows into an engineering team.

Who Will Succeed in This Role

You are likely to succeed if you are equally comfortable discussing architecture, reviewing code, resolving a production incident, planning a release, and having an accountability conversation with an engineer. You bring structure without creating unnecessary bureaucracy and know how to turn product priorities into consistent, high-quality delivery.

Must of Skills/Experience 

• System Design

• Python

• TensorFlow

• Google ADK or Lang Graph

• Lang Chain , Lang Graph

• Spark

• Agentic AI Design

• ML Ops

• MCP (client and server)

• FastAPI

• Doc Factory

• RAG

• Golang

• LLMs – Gemini, Open AI

• NLP

• Dev Assistant - AI based code - generation

(Qwen or Claude or Copilot)

• CI/CD

• Good in oral and written communication,

collaboration and be a team player

Good to have skills 

• DevOps with K8

• Scripting

• Java

• REST API

• UV

• ReACT

• DocFactory

• Unix

About the Role We are seeking a highly technical, hands-on Senior AI/ML Tech Lead to drive the design, development, and deployment of cutting-edge Generative AI applications. In this dual-impact role, you wi l act as a primary individual contributor architecting core AI engines while simultaneously leading a team of engineers through task alocation, code reviews, and technical mentorship. The ideal candidate bridges the gap between state-of-the-art AI research (LLMs, Agentic frameworks, Advanced RAG, OCR) and production-grade ful-stack engineering (Python, FastAPI, React).

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Team Management (40%)

● Technical Oversight: Lead a team of AI, backend, and ful-stack engineers; alocate tasks, establish sprint priorities, and ensure timely delivery.

● Code Quality & Reviews: Conduct rigorous code reviews to maintain high engineering standards, security, performance, and scalability across AI and fu l-stack codebases.

● Architecture & Governance: Design end-to-end system architectures for AI solutions, ensuring seamless integration between frontend interfaces, backend APIs, and AI models.

● Mentorship: Guide and upskil team members on modern software practices, LLM engineering, and agentic design patterns. Hands-On Engineering & Development (60%)

● Generative AI & Agentic Systems: Architect, build, and optimize LLM-powered applications, multi-agent workflows (e.g., CrewAI, AutoGen, LangGraph), and autonomous AI agents.

● RAG & OCR Pipelines: Design and deploy advanced RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architectures and document processing pipelines utilizing OCR techniques (e.g., LayoutLM, PaddleOCR, Tesseract, Vision LLMs) to extract structured data from unstructured sources.

● Backend Systems: Build robust, asynchronous, high-throughput microservices and RESTful APIs using Python and FastAPI.

● Frontend Integration: Colaborate on or build modern web interfaces using React (e.g., Control Towers, operations dashboards, interactive chat interfaces).

● MLOps & Vector DBs: Oversee model deployment, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, vector database integration (Pinecone, Qdrant, Chroma, PGVector), and cloud infrastructure setup (Azure/AWS).

Required Qualifications & Skills

● Overall Experience: 8 to 10 years of professional software engineering experience.

● AI/ML Domain Experience: 3 to 4+ years of dedicated, hands-on experience building and deploying AI/ML, OCR, and Generative AI solutions in production.

● Core Technical Stack: ○ Generative AI & LLMs: Extensive experience with commercial and open-source LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Llama), Agentic frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI), and LLM evaluation frameworks (LangSmith, TruLens, Ragas). ○ RAG & Unstructured Data: Strong knowledge of hybrid search, re-ranking, chunking strategies, vector databases, and document inte ligence workflows. ○ OCR & Vision Techniques: Hands-on experience with OCR engines (Tesseract, PaddleOCR, Azure Document Inteligence) and Multi-Modal/Vision LLMs for document extraction. ○ Backend: Deep expertise in Python and asynchronous frameworks (FastAPI, AsyncIO). ○ Frontend: Working proficiency in React (TypeScript/JavaScript) for building interactive web UI components. ○ Cloud & DevOps: Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure / AWS), Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.

Preferred / Good-to-Have Skills

● Experience with cloud-native data platforms (e.g., Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, Azure SQL).

● Familiarity with cost optimization and latency reduction techniques for LLM inference (caching, semantic routing, model quantization).

● Prior experience in client-facing technical leadership or agile consulting environments.

What We Offer

● Opportunity to lead and build high-impact, state-of-the-art Generative AI systems.

● Colaborative engineering culture with room for technical ownership and direct business impact.

● Flexible work arrangements and competitive compensation package.

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.