Sr. Backend Engineer (Python)

Lead AI Engineer

Experience: 8+ Years

Location: Coimbatore / Hybrid

Joining: Immediate or within 30 days

About Techjays

At Techjays, we help businesses reimagine how they build, operate, and scale through AI. We focus on developing secure, scalable, production-grade AI solutions that solve real business problems and deliver measurable outcomes.

Our engineering team brings experience from organizations such as Google, NetApp, ADP, Cognizant Consulting, and Capgemini. We combine strong engineering fundamentals with an execution-focused mindset to build advanced AI systems for global clients.

About the Role

We are looking for a Lead AI Engineer to drive the architecture and development of scalable backend systems and AI-powered applications.

In this role, you will lead the technical design and implementation of Python-based systems, oversee LLM integrations and RAG pipelines, and develop agentic AI workflows for production environments. You will take ownership of complex engineering challenges, establish coding and architectural standards, and mentor engineers to deliver reliable, maintainable, and high-performing solutions.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who can translate complex requirements into practical engineering solutions and take them from design to production.

Key Responsibilities

1. Backend Engineering & System Architecture

• Design and develop scalable, secure backend systems using Python and frameworks such as Django or Flask.
• Architect RESTful APIs, WebSocket services, and distributed systems that support high-performance applications.
• Apply design patterns, algorithms, and data structures to solve complex engineering challenges.
• Design efficient database schemas, caching strategies, and data access patterns for scalable applications.
• Establish engineering standards for code quality, testing, maintainability, and system performance.

2. AI Engineering & LLM Integration

• Architect and implement LLM-powered applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, and agentic AI workflows.
• Develop solutions using vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, and prompt engineering.
• Build and optimize multi-agent systems, orchestration workflows, and tool integrations using frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex.
• Implement Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations where appropriate to connect AI systems with external tools and data sources.
• Evaluate model fine-tuning approaches and other techniques to improve AI performance where required.
• Establish LLMOps practices covering evaluation, observability, quality monitoring, and cost and latency optimization.

3. Cloud Infrastructure & Deployment

• Design and deploy cloud-native applications using AWS and GCP services.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
• Containerize applications using Docker and support deployment and operations in Linux environments.
• Implement reliable asynchronous processing and messaging using queuing systems.
• Improve system availability, scalability, security, and deployment reliability across production environments.

4. Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence

• Own technical decisions across complex backend and AI engineering initiatives.
• Guide engineers in architecture, implementation, debugging, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and drive improvements in application reliability and scalability.
• Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, data scientists, and other stakeholders to deliver effective solutions.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and tools, adopting them when they provide meaningful technical or business value.
• Take ownership of features from technical design through implementation, deployment, and production support.

Required Technical Skills

Backend Development

• Strong Python programming expertise.
• Experience with Django, Flask, RESTful APIs, and WebSockets.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, design patterns, algorithms, and data structures.

Databases & Performance

• Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or equivalent database technologies.
• Strong understanding of relational database design, query optimization, and performance tuning.
• Experience implementing caching strategies and asynchronous processing.

Cloud & DevOps

• Hands-on experience with AWS and/or GCP.
• Experience with Git, Docker, Linux, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with queuing systems and distributed application architectures.

System Design

• Ability to design secure, scalable, and maintainable backend systems.
• Experience making architecture decisions involving performance, reliability, scalability, and operational complexity.

Preferred AI/ML Skills

• Large Language Models (LLMs) and prompt engineering.
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture.
• Vector databases such as Pinecone, ChromaDB, or equivalent.
• Embeddings, semantic search, and retrieval optimization.
• Agentic AI workflows and multi-agent orchestration.
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) and tool integrations.
• LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar frameworks.
• Model fine-tuning and LLMOps practices.
• AI evaluation frameworks, observability, and production quality monitoring.
• Experience optimizing inference costs, response latency, and AI application performance.

What We're Looking For

• Strong engineering fundamentals: You can solve complex technical problems and design maintainable systems.
• Hands-on ownership: You take responsibility for solutions from concept through production.
• System-level thinking: You understand how architecture, performance, security, and scalability work together.
• Practical AI expertise: You can build and deploy AI-powered applications beyond prototypes and proof of concepts.
• Technical leadership: You guide engineers, improve code quality, and establish sound engineering practices.
• Structured problem-solving: You make thoughtful technical decisions in ambiguous and fast-moving environments.
• Clear communication: You collaborate effectively across engineering and business teams.
• Continuous improvement: You stay current with evolving AI technologies and apply them where they create value.
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What We Offer

• Competitive compensation.
• Flexible work environment with Coimbatore office and hybrid options.
• Paid holidays and flexible time off.
• Medical insurance for self and family, with coverage of up to ₹4 lakhs per person.
• Opportunities to architect and build production-grade AI systems used by real customers.
• Exposure to global clients and technically challenging projects.
• A culture that values ownership, clarity, integrity, and continuous learning.

Senior AI Engineer

Company: Techjays

Experience: 4–8 Years

Location: Coimbatore, Hybrid

Joining: Immediate or within 30 days preferred

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer with strong Python development skills and hands-on experience building and deploying AI-powered applications. The ideal candidate should have practical knowledge of LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases, and scalable backend systems.

You will work closely with engineering and product teams to design, develop, and deploy reliable AI solutions for real-world business problems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications using Python and frameworks such as Django, Flask, or FastAPI.
• Build and integrate AI-powered applications using LLMs, RAG pipelines, and agentic AI workflows.
• Develop document processing, embedding generation, semantic search, and retrieval pipelines.
• Integrate LLM APIs and optimize prompts, response quality, latency, and cost.
• Work with vector databases and relational databases to build efficient data retrieval systems.
• Design and implement REST APIs, asynchronous processing, caching, and queuing mechanisms.
• Apply software engineering best practices, including design patterns, clean code, testing, and version control.
• Deploy and maintain applications on AWS or GCP using Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor production systems, troubleshoot issues, and improve application performance and reliability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into practical AI solutions.
• Contribute to code reviews, technical documentation, and knowledge sharing within the engineering team.

Required Skills

• 4–8 years of experience in software development, with strong hands-on Python expertise.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, and design patterns.
• Experience building backend applications using Django, Flask, or FastAPI.
• Hands-on experience with LLM-based applications and API integrations.
• Practical experience implementing RAG pipelines, embeddings, and semantic search.
• Experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, or Chroma.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Experience with caching, message queues, asynchronous processing, and WebSockets.
• Familiarity with AWS or GCP, Docker, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of API design, system architecture, application security, and performance optimization.
• Experience testing, debugging, and maintaining production-grade applications.

Preferred Skills

• Experience building agentic AI applications and multi-agent workflows.
• Familiarity with LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or similar frameworks.
• Knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP) and tool-calling mechanisms.
• Experience with LLM evaluation, hallucination reduction, and output quality monitoring.
• Familiarity with fine-tuning, model selection, and inference optimization.
• Experience with LLMOps, AI observability, and production monitoring.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and microservices architecture.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to take ownership of features from development through deployment.
• Practical understanding of how to build reliable AI applications beyond prototypes.
• Ability to make sound technical decisions and explain architectural trade-offs.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.
• Willingness to learn, experiment, and work on challenging AI engineering problems.

About the role

You'll work alongside a Senior Backend, Data & ML Developer and our existing backend team to build backend systems, process data, and integrate ML and data science models into our platform.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs.
• Develop data processing workflows and pipelines.
• Implement, integrate and maintain ML models and data science algorithms in production.
• Optimise database queries, data models and system performance.
• Work with the frontend and mobile teams on API integrations.
• Write tests and documentation, and take part in code reviews.

What we're looking for

• 3–5 years of backend development experience.
• Strong skills in Django and working knowledge of SQL databases.
• Practical experience with ML models and data science algorithms, from training or integration through to deployment.
• Experience handling and transforming data at scale.
• Experience with cloud platforms, Git and CI/CD.
• Clear communication with backend, web and mobile teammates.
• Experience working with AI tools for development such as Claude and Cursor

Note: Full-stack experience isn't required. Strong backend and data skills plus good cross-team communication matter most.

Nice to have

• Python data and ML tools (for example pandas, scikit-learn or PyTorch).
• Experience with model serving or MLOps tools.

Job Title: Senior AI Engineer

Experience: 5–10 years in software engineering, with 3+ years in AI/ML engineering preferred

Employment Type: Full-time

Department: Artificial Intelligence / Engineering

Location: Bangalore

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior AI Engineer to design, develop, deploy, and scale intelligent AI-powered applications and solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in machine learning, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, and production-grade software engineering.

The candidate will work closely with product managers, data scientists, software engineers, and business stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into scalable, reliable, secure, and cost-effective AI solutions.

Key Responsibilities

1. AI Solution Design and Development

• Design, develop, and deploy end-to-end AI and machine learning solutions.
• Build intelligent applications using LLMs, Generative AI, NLP, and deep learning techniques.
• Develop scalable AI architectures and reusable components for enterprise applications.
• Evaluate AI models and select appropriate approaches based on accuracy, latency, cost, and business requirements.

2. Generative AI and LLM Engineering

• Develop LLM-powered applications using models from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or open-source ecosystems.
• Design and implement RAG pipelines, document processing workflows, semantic search, and knowledge retrieval systems.
• Build AI agents and multi-step workflows using appropriate orchestration frameworks.
• Implement prompt engineering, structured outputs, tool calling, and context management.
• Optimize model performance through evaluation, fine-tuning where appropriate, and inference optimization.

3. Machine Learning and Data Engineering

• Develop and operationalize machine learning models for classification, prediction, recommendation, and other business use cases.
• Work with structured, unstructured, and multimodal data.
• Build data preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, and validation pipelines.
• Apply appropriate model evaluation techniques and statistical methods.

4. Production Deployment and MLOps / LLMOps

• Deploy AI solutions using cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Build automated CI/CD pipelines for AI applications and model deployment.
• Implement model versioning, experiment tracking, monitoring, and performance evaluation.
• Optimize inference latency, throughput, infrastructure utilization, and operating costs.
• Establish observability for AI applications, including token usage, retrieval quality, latency, failures, and model behavior.

5. Software Engineering and System Architecture

• Develop production-quality applications and APIs using Python and modern backend frameworks.
• Design RESTful APIs, asynchronous processing systems, and microservices where appropriate.
• Integrate AI services with enterprise applications, databases, and third-party systems.
• Use relational databases, vector databases, caching, and distributed systems effectively.
• Apply software engineering best practices, including testing, code reviews, documentation, and design patterns.

6. Security, Quality, and Responsible AI

• Implement safeguards against prompt injection, data leakage, insecure tool execution, and unauthorized access.
• Apply appropriate privacy, security, and compliance controls to AI systems.
• Evaluate hallucinations, bias, reliability, and failure modes.
• Design human-in-the-loop workflows and fallback mechanisms for critical use cases.

7. Technical Leadership and Collaboration

• Lead technical design discussions and mentor junior AI engineers.
• Define engineering standards, coding practices, and AI development guidelines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Conduct code reviews, evaluate emerging technologies, and recommend practical innovations.
• Communicate technical trade-offs and solution architecture to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Technical Skills

Programming and Backend Development

• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Experience with FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
• Knowledge of REST APIs, asynchronous programming, data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
• Experience with Git, automated testing, and CI/CD.

AI and Machine Learning

• Strong understanding of supervised and unsupervised learning, model evaluation, and statistical concepts.
• Hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or scikit-learn.
• Knowledge of NLP, embeddings, transformers, and deep learning fundamentals.

Generative AI and LLMs

• Hands-on experience building production applications using LLM APIs or open-source models.
• Strong understanding of RAG architecture, embeddings, chunking, reranking, and retrieval evaluation.
• Experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus, or pgvector.
• Familiarity with orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangChain, or comparable tools.
• Experience with tool calling, structured generation, agent workflows, and LLM evaluation.

Cloud and Infrastructure

• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with model serving, scalable APIs, monitoring, and production deployments.
• Experience with MLOps or LLMOps practices.

Databases and Data Processing

• Strong SQL skills and experience with relational databases.
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases, data pipelines, and distributed processing.
• Experience working with unstructured data, document ingestion, and retrieval systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with fine-tuning, quantization, or serving open-source LLMs.
• Experience with multimodal AI, including text, image, audio, or video.
• Knowledge of agent evaluation, workflow orchestration, and multi-agent systems.
• Experience with AI security, guardrails, governance, and responsible AI.
• Experience optimizing AI workloads for latency, scalability, and cost.
• Contributions to open-source AI projects, research, or technical publications.

Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related field.
• Equivalent practical experience and demonstrated engineering expertise may be considered.

Key Success Metrics

• Quality, accuracy, and reliability of deployed AI solutions.
• Production adoption and measurable business impact.
• Reduction in inference costs and response latency.
• RAG retrieval quality and reduction in unsupported or incorrect responses.
• System availability, scalability, and operational stability.
• Delivery timelines, code quality, and technical mentoring effectiveness.

About the Job :

We are looking for a passionate and driven AI Intern to join our dynamic team. As an intern, you will have the opportunity to work on real-world projects, develop AI models, and collaborate with experienced professionals in the field. This internship is designed to provide hands-on experience in AI and machine learning, offering you the chance to contribute to impactful projects while enhancing your skills.

Job Description:

We are seeking a talented Artificial Intelligence Specialist to join our dynamic team. As an AI Specialist, you will be responsible for developing, implementing, and optimizing AI models and algorithms. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to integrate AI capabilities into our products and services. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing, with a passion for applying AI to real-world problems.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and deploy AI models and algorithms.
• Conduct data analysis and pre-processing to prepare data for modeling.
• Implement and optimize machine learning algorithms.
• Collaborate with software engineers to integrate AI models into production systems.
• Evaluate and improve the performance of existing AI models.
• Stay updated with the latest advancements in AI research and apply them to enhance our products.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members.

Requirements:

• Any Graduate / Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; Master's degree preferred.
• Proven experience in developing and implementing machine learning models and algorithms.
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Python, R, or Java.

Benefits :

• Internship Certificate
• Letter of Recommendation
• Performance-Based Stipend
• Part-time work from home (2-3 hours per day)
• 5 days a week, fully flexible shift

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. 

About the Role

We are looking for an AI/ML Engineer with 4+ years of Strong hands-on experience building and deploying production-grade AI systems. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Computer Vision, Generative AI, RAG pipelines, Voice AI, and LLM-powered applications, with experience delivering scalable, production-ready solutions across enterprise, healthcare, or SaaS environments

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy production-ready AI/ML and Generative AI applications, Computer Vision solutions.
• Build and optimize LLM-powered applications for real-world business use cases.
• Develop and maintain RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines using vector databases and embedding models.
• Build Voice AI solutions including speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), conversational AI, and voice-enabled assistants.
• Create and optimize prompt engineering strategies to improve LLM output quality, consistency, and reliability.
• Work with open-source LLMs for inference, fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment.
• Implement model monitoring, evaluation, guardrails, and performance optimization.
• Collaborate with DevOps and cloud teams for scalable deployments.
• Optimize AI systems for latency, cost, scalability, and production performance.
• Integrate AI services through APIs and enterprise applications.

Required Skills & Experience

• 4+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering and production deployments.
• Strong experience in Python and AI/ML development.
• Hands-on experience with Generative AI and LLM applications.
• Strong hands-on experience in Computer Vision using Python and frameworks such as OpenCV, PyTorch, and TensorFlow.
• Experience with Computer Vision tasks such as object detection, image classification, image segmentation, and feature extraction.
• Familiarity with models and libraries such as YOLO, Detectron2, MMDetection, and torchvision.
• Experience with image preprocessing, data augmentation, model training, evaluation, and inference optimization.
• Exposure to OCR technologies such as Tesseract or EasyOCR and vision-based deep learning models is an advantage.
• Experience building RAG pipelines using:
• Vector Databases: Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, ChromaDB, Milvus
• Embeddings and retrieval optimization
• Experience with Prompt Engineering techniques for LLM optimization.
• Experience with Open Source LLMs such as:
• Llama, Mistral, Falcon, Gemma, DeepSeek, Qwen
• Experience with Voice AI technologies:
• Speech-to-Text (Whisper, Deepgram, Google STT)
• Text-to-Speech (ElevenLabs, Azure Speech, Amazon Polly)
• Conversational Voice Agents
• Experience using frameworks/tools:
• LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face
• Understanding of fine-tuning, model evaluation, inference optimization, and AI observability.
• Experience deploying applications using:
• Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD
• AWS / Azure / GCP

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering AI solutions for Healthcare, Enterprise, or SaaS platforms.
• Exposure to MLOps practices and model lifecycle management.
• Understanding of AI governance, security, and responsible AI practices.
• Experience integrating AI with APIs and production services.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of agentic AI workflows and orchestration.
• Experience with monitoring and evaluation frameworks.
• Exposure to multimodal AI applications

Education Qualifications

• B.Tech / M.Tech in CSE / IT / AI&ML only from good college.

Job Title: Senior AI/ML Engineer

Company: Timble Technologies Pvt. Ltd

Location: Gurugram (Hybrid)

Experience: 2 TO 5 Years

About Us

Timble Glance is a high-growth AI RegTech and B2B SaaS company catering to top-tier BFSI and enterprise clients. We build cutting-edge systems powering 30+ high-scale APIs for digital identity verification, fraud detection, document intelligence, and compliance automation.

Role Overview

We are looking for a hands-on Senior AI/ML Engineer to design, develop, and productionize high-throughput AI/ML and Generative AI systems. You will own the full lifecycle—from problem formulation and data pipelines to deep learning architectures, RAG systems, LLMOps, and model governance—delivering sub-second latency and high reliability across our enterprise products.

Key Responsibilities

·       Model Architecture & Deployment: Design, train, and deploy production-scale ML/Deep Learning and GenAI systems (computer vision, document intelligence, OCR, NLP, fraud risk classification, and LLM applications).

·       GenAI & LLM Solutions: Develop robust LLM workflows including prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG pipelines, semantic search, vector indexing (Pinecone/Milvus/Chroma), and safety guardrails.

·       Pipelines & Engineering: Build performant feature extraction and data pipelines; write modular, vectorized, production-grade Python (NumPy, Pandas) and advanced SQL.

·       MLOps & Monitoring: Establish end-to-end MLOps/LLMOps standards—model registries, CI/CD, experiment tracking, drift detection, A/B testing, latency optimization, and cost governance.

·       Responsible AI & Security: Ensure model decisions comply with enterprise data security, privacy standards, and auditability required by the BFSI sector.

·       Collaboration & Ownership: Translate complex business requirements into technical roadmaps, conduct rigorous code reviews, and mentor junior engineers.

Required Qualifications & Skills

·       Education: B.Tech / M.Tech in Computer Science, AI/ML, Mathematics, or a related field—Tier-1 institutes (IIT, IIIT, NIT) strongly preferred.

·       Experience: 2+ years of hands-on experience developing, deploying, and maintaining ML/Deep Learning or GenAI models in production environments.

·       GenAI & NLP Stack: Hands-on experience with LLMs, embeddings, RAG architectures, and frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or Hugging Face.

·       Deep Learning Frameworks: Strong proficiency in PyTorch or TensorFlow, with deep knowledge of transformer architectures and modern NLP/CV models.

·       Software & Data Engineering: Expert-level Python skills (pytest, Git, OOP, asynchronous programming), solid SQL proficiency, and familiarity with data workflows.

·       Deployment & Cloud: Practical exposure to cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), containerization (Docker), API frameworks (FastAPI/Flask), and basic orchestration (Kubernetes).

Preferred Qualifications

·       Prior domain experience in Fintech, RegTech, Identity Verification (KYC/AML), Fraud Intelligence, or B2B SaaS.

·       Experience optimizing models for low latency and inference cost (e.g., ONNX, TensorRT, model quantization).

·       Familiarity with workflow orchestrators such as Airflow, Prefect, or Kubeflow.

Chief Engineer - Artificial Intelligence

AI Architecture | Production Engineering | LLM, RAG & Agentic AI

Primary objective: Build secure, scalable and reusable AI capabilities that move from experimentation to reliable production use across DocTutorials products and business functions.

Department

Technology & Product Engineering

Location

Hyderabad / Chennai

Reports to

Vice President - Technology

Experience

10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years in AI/ML

Role Summary

The Chief Engineer - AI will define and lead AI engineering architecture, standards and production implementation. This is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role responsible for building reliable AI platforms and guiding AI engineers, data teams and application teams.

Key Responsibilities

1. AI Strategy and Architecture

·       Define the AI engineering strategy, architecture and technical roadmap.

·       Evaluate and select suitable models, frameworks, vector databases and AI platforms.

·       Make practical build-versus-buy and open-source-versus-commercial decisions.

·       Ensure AI solutions are modular, reusable, scalable, secure and cost-effective.

2. Production AI Engineering

·       Lead AI initiatives from use-case assessment and proof of concept through production deployment.

·       Build reusable AI services, APIs, pipelines and platform components for web, mobile and internal applications.

·       Establish development, testing, deployment, monitoring and production-support practices.

·       Resolve complex issues involving model quality, retrieval, performance, reliability and cost.

3. LLM, RAG and Agentic AI

·       Design LLM applications, enterprise RAG solutions and controlled AI-agent workflows.

·       Build document processing, chunking, embedding, indexing, retrieval and response pipelines.

·       Implement source traceability, human approval and clear permissions for sensitive use cases.

·       Improve response quality through prompt design, retrieval optimisation and evaluation.

4. AI Quality, Security and Responsible AI

·       Define evaluation standards for accuracy, relevance, groundedness, safety, latency and cost.

·       Introduce benchmark datasets and regression testing for prompts, models and retrieval pipelines.

·       Implement safeguards for hallucinations, unsupported responses, data leakage and unsafe actions.

·       Ensure role-based access, encryption, audit logging, secure secrets handling and approved data usage.

5. AI Platform and Integration

·       Create common AI capabilities and integration standards that can be reused across products and teams.

·       Integrate AI services with applications, databases and approved enterprise data sources.

·       Implement observability for model usage, quality, errors, response time and cost.

·       Reduce dependency on a single model provider, individual engineer or external vendor.

6. Technical Leadership and Team Development

·       Define AI engineering standards for architecture, coding, review, testing and documentation.

·       Remain hands-on through design reviews, critical code reviews, debugging and focused prototypes.

·       Mentor AI/ML engineers, data engineers and application teams; support hiring and capability building.

·       Work with Product and business teams to convert high-value problems into measurable AI solutions.

Required Skills and Experience

·       10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in practical AI/ML engineering.

·       Proven experience moving AI solutions from prototype to reliable production use.

·       Strong Python and production API development experience, preferably FastAPI.

·       Strong knowledge of LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, embeddings and agentic AI.

·       Experience with vector databases such as pgvector, Qdrant, Milvus or Weaviate.

·       Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack or similar orchestration frameworks.

·       Knowledge of cloud architecture (preferably AWS), microservices, databases, queues and distributed systems.

·       Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability and production support.

·       Strong understanding of application security, data privacy and responsible-AI engineering.

·       Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring and stakeholder-management capability.

Good-to-Have Experience

·       Healthcare, medical education, EdTech or digital-learning platforms.

·       Medical-content intelligence, knowledge graphs, ontologies, taxonomy or semantic search.

·       Clinical Case Library, personalised learning or recommendation systems.

·       Multi-modal AI involving text, audio, images or video.

·       Healthcare-data privacy, de-identification or standards such as SNOMED CT, ICD, HL7 or FHIR.

How Success Will Be Measured

·       Production adoption and measurable business or learner impact of AI capabilities.

·       Accuracy, groundedness, reliability, security and cost efficiency of AI solutions.

·       Reusable AI services delivered across products with reduced technical and vendor dependency.

·       Improved capability, engineering quality and ownership within the AI team.

We are looking for a hands-on AI engineering leader who can distinguish a valuable production capability from an attractive demo and build AI that is secure, scalable, measurable and maintainable.

Strong Senior AI Engineer Profile with production-grade LLM and Python expertise

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Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have at least 3+ years of professional AI/ML engineering experience with demonstrated track record of delivering production-grade AI systems in real-world environments

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Mandatory (Tech skill 1): Must have strong programming skills in Python and SQL, with hands-on ML/data libraries (scikit-learn, pandas, numpy) and deep-learning frameworks (PyTorch or TensorFlow), plus REST API design

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Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have hands-on experience building and deploying production-grade ML/LLMs including RAG pipelines, document parsing, information extraction, and text processing on large-scale unstructured data (preprocessing, chunking, embeddings, feature engineering)

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Mandatory (Tech skill 2): Must have strong NLP / extraction-focused ML depth — transformers, embeddings, vector databases, RAG, LLM integrations, and agentic workflows.

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Mandatory (Tech skill 3): Must have hands-on experience with AWS (SageMaker, Bedrock, EC2, Lambda) and Azure (AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI) for model training, fine-tuning, deployment, and inference at scale

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Mandatory (Tech skill 4): Must have experience with multi-agentic frameworks / orchestration tools (Claude Code, LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI)

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Mandatory (Tech skill 5): Must have hands-on experience with MLOps ecosystem including experiment tracking (MLflow, Weights & Biases), model versioning/registry, automated retraining, and CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes)

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Mandatory (Tech skill 6): Must have experience with evaluation frameworks (precision, recall, F1, field-level accuracy) and iterative model improvement, plus AI observability (Prometheus, Grafana, SLOs).

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Mandatory (Team Leadership): Must have experience leading projects or teams, managing technical deliverables, and mentoring, with strong problem-solving in ambiguous challenges

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Mandatory (Education) - B.Tech or B.E. If graduated in BCA or BCS, they should have a Maters or Post graduation

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Mandatory (Company): B2B Tech/Consulting/B2B Software