A.I Engineer

AI Engineer

iRONic Ventures | Kochi Office (No Remote/Hybrid) | Full-Time | 2 Openings

The Role

We're looking for two AI Engineers to build AI features into a production SaaS product used by customers and businesses in Europe. You'll work in TypeScript across the stack, connecting LLMs and generative models to a real application: designing prompts and structured outputs, building evaluations and tests around them, and keeping AI suggestions inside the guard rails of validated business logic. This is a product engineering role, not a research or model-training role. We build with AI coding agents every day and expect you to do the same. The role suits engineers with 2-5 years of experience.

What You'll Do

• AI Features: Design and build LLM-powered features end to end, from prompt and structured output to API, UI, and tests
• Generative Media: Integrate image-generation and image-editing models, and measure output quality, latency, and cost per result
• Guard Rails: Treat AI output as a proposal that deterministic, validated code checks before anything reaches the user
• Evaluation: Build evaluation sets and automated checks so prompt and model changes are compared on evidence, not guessed
• Data Integration: Import, map, and validate structured data from external partners, using AI where it saves manual work
• Configuration Tooling: Build tools that let non-technical admins configure business rules safely
• Production: Add logging and monitoring around expensive AI calls, and troubleshoot and fix production issues
• AI-Assisted Development: Use coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) daily, with the test discipline that keeps their output trustworthy

What We're Looking For

• Experience: 2-5 years of professional software engineering, including at least one LLM-based feature shipped to production
• Programming: Strong TypeScript and Node.js; comfortable writing SQL
• LLM Engineering: OpenAI or Anthropic APIs, prompt engineering, structured outputs, schema validation (e.g. Zod), tool calling
• Evaluation & Testing: Automated tests and evals for code that depends on non-deterministic model output
• Data: PostgreSQL, data modelling, and working with messy external data
• AI-Assisted Development: Daily, hands-on use of coding agents and the judgement to review what they produce
• Bonus: Image-generation APIs, vector search (pgvector), job queues (Redis, BullMQ), Next.js and React, three.js, Python for evaluation scripts, German language

About iRONic Ventures

iRONic Ventures is a German venture group that builds AI-first companies from the inside. We invest our own capital in AI startups (TAIWA, Nexora AI, Hurraay), build and run our own products, and deliver fixed-fee AI builds for startups across Europe. Having operated in Germany since 2023, we're now opening an office in Berlin and a new office in India, in Kochi, and we're hiring the engineers who will build there.

• Builders, not just investors: We're engineers who invest. Product decisions are made by people who read the code
• AI-native by default: Coding agents, automated tests, and fast release cycles are how every team works here, not an experiment
• More than one codebase: Work across new ventures, our own products, and client builds instead of maintaining one system for years
• Be early in Kochi: Join the first engineers in our Kochi office, help shape how it works, and work hand in hand with the team in Berlin
• A European quality bar: Build for customers in Germany and across Europe, where privacy, multi-language support, and reliability are expected from day one

To Apply

Upload your resume, your LinkedIn profile, and a short note (3-4 sentences) on why you'd be a great fit for the role. Include one thing you built with AI coding tools and how you checked that it worked.

Pay: From ₹380,000.00 per year

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Kochi, Kerala: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• SaaS: 2 years (Required)
• Node.js: 2 years (Required)

Location:

• Kochi, Kerala (Preferred)

Work Location: In person