Senior Agentic AI Engineer (Freelance)

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)

Role: Python + Agentic AI Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Python + Agentic AI Engineer with strong expertise in developing AI-powered applications and autonomous agent-based solutions.

Key Skills / Requirements:

• Strong hands-on experience in Python

• Experience with Agentic AI / AI Agents

• Hands-on with LangChain / LangGraph or similar agent frameworks

• Experience with Generative AI and LLMs

• Strong understanding of RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and Vector Databases

• Experience developing REST APIs using FastAPI

• Knowledge of Multi-Agent Systems, Tool/Function Calling and Agent Workflows

• Experience integrating LLMs with enterprise applications/APIs

• Exposure to cloud-based AI services is an advantage

Preferred Profile: Python Developer / AI Engineer / Generative AI Engineer / Agentic AI Engineer with hands-on experience building production-ready AI solutions.

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. 

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)

Role Overview

We are looking for a skilled Python Full Stack / Agentic AI Engineer to design, develop, and deploy AI-powered applications and intelligent agentic workflows. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Python, FastAPI, LLMs, RAG, LangChain/LangGraph, and modern full-stack development.

You will work on building scalable backend services, integrating Large Language Models, developing AI agents, implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, and creating production-ready AI applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend applications using Python and FastAPI.
• Build and deploy Agentic AI solutions using LLMs and agent frameworks.
• Develop multi-step and multi-agent workflows using LangChain and LangGraph.
• Design and implement RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines.
• Integrate LLMs such as OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or open-source models.
• Develop prompt engineering strategies and structured LLM workflows.
• Work with vector databases and embedding models for semantic search and knowledge retrieval.
• Build APIs and microservices for AI-powered applications.
• Integrate AI services with databases, third-party APIs, and enterprise systems.
• Develop conversation memory, tool calling, function calling, and agent orchestration capabilities.
• Implement evaluation, monitoring, logging, guardrails, and error handling for AI applications.
• Optimize applications for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost.
• Collaborate with product managers, frontend developers, data engineers, and other stakeholders.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested, and production-ready code.
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, testing, and deployment activities.

Required Skills

Programming & Backend

• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Hands-on experience with FastAPI, REST APIs, and backend development.
• Strong understanding of asynchronous programming, API design, authentication, and middleware.
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases.

Generative AI / Agentic AI

• Strong understanding of LLMs and Generative AI.
• Hands-on experience building AI Agents / Agentic AI applications.
• Experience with LangChain and/or LangGraph.
• Knowledge of agent orchestration, tool calling, function calling, memory, and workflow management.
• Strong understanding of prompt engineering.

RAG

• Experience designing and implementing RAG architectures.
• Knowledge of document ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector search, retrieval, reranking, and response generation.
• Experience with vector databases such as FAISS, Chroma, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, or similar.

LLM & AI Integration

• Experience integrating commercial or open-source LLMs.
• Understanding of embeddings, context windows, temperature, token usage, and model selection.
• Experience with structured outputs and LLM-based workflows.
• Familiarity with LLM evaluation and observability is a plus.

Full Stack

• Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience with React.js or similar frontend frameworks is preferred.
• Ability to integrate frontend applications with Python/FastAPI services.

Job Description:

We are looking for a skilled Python + Agentic AI Developer with hands-on experience in Python programming, Generative AI, and AI agent development. The candidate should have knowledge of building AI-powered applications, integrating Large Language Models (LLMs), and developing intelligent solutions using AI frameworks.

Primary & Mandatory Skills:

• Python Programming
• Agentic AI / AI Agents
• Generative AI (GenAI)
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• AI-powered Application Development

Good to Have:

• LangChain / LangGraph
• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
• FastAPI / REST APIs
• Prompt Engineering

Experience: 4 Years

Location: Bangalore (BGL)

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.

We are currently hiring for the position of Python – GenAI / Agentic AI Engineer for one of our esteemed clients.

Please find the opportunity details below:

Position: Python – GenAI / Agentic AI Engineer

Location: Hyderabad

Experience: 7+ Years

GenAI / Agentic AI Experience: 2+ Years

Work Mode: Hybrid

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Python professional with strong hands-on expertise in Generative AI / Agentic AI and LLM-based application development.

Core Mandatory Skills

• Python
• Generative AI / GenAI
• Agentic AI
• LLM
• LangChain / LangGraph
• Google ADK / Semantic Kernel / Equivalent Agent Frameworks
• RAG
• Tool Calling
• Memory, Planning & Reasoning
• Multi-Agent Orchestration
• Structured Outputs
• Human-in-the-Loop / Human Approval Controls
• REST APIs
• Relational & NoSQL Databases
• Vector Stores / Vector Databases
• Message Queues
• Enterprise System Integration

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement Generative AI and Agentic AI capabilities using LLM platforms and frameworks.
• Build AI agents using LangChain, LangGraph, Google ADK, Semantic Kernel, or equivalent frameworks.
• Implement tool calling, RAG, memory, planning, reasoning, and multi-agent orchestration.
• Develop structured AI workflows with human approval controls.
• Integrate AI applications with REST APIs, databases, vector stores, message queues, and enterprise systems.
• Develop scalable and production-ready Python-based AI applications.

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced AI/ML Engineer with strong expertise in Python, Generative AI, LLMs, LangChain, and LangGraph. The candidate will be responsible for designing and developing AI-powered applications, intelligent agents, and scalable LLM-based solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop AI/ML and Generative AI applications using Python and modern LLM technologies.
• Build LLM-based applications and AI agents using LangChain and LangGraph.
• Develop agentic workflows involving tool calling, memory, reasoning, and multi-step orchestration.
• Integrate LLMs such as OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or other foundation models.
• Develop RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines using vector databases.
• Work with embeddings, prompt engineering, semantic search, and document processing.
• Develop scalable APIs and backend services using Python, FastAPI, or Flask.
• Build and integrate AI solutions with existing applications and enterprise systems.
• Deploy and maintain AI/ML solutions on cloud platforms.
• Collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and product teams to develop business-focused AI solutions.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in Python programming.
• Strong experience in AI/ML and Generative AI.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs and LLM-based application development.
• Strong experience with LangChain and/or LangGraph.
• Experience building AI Agents / Agentic AI workflows.
• Strong understanding of RAG, embeddings, vector databases, and prompt engineering.
• Experience with vector databases such as FAISS, Pinecone, Chroma, Weaviate, or Azure AI Search.
• Experience developing REST APIs using FastAPI/Flask.
• Good understanding of Machine Learning, NLP, and deep learning concepts.
• Experience with Azure / AWS / GCP cloud platforms.

Good to Have

• Experience with multi-agent systems and agent orchestration.
• Knowledge of MLOps / LLMOps.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
• Knowledge of LLM evaluation, monitoring, observability, and AI governance.
• Experience with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, or AWS Bedrock.

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