AI Engineer - Generative AI / LLM / RAG

Role & responsibilities

• Develop production-grade AI applications and backend services using Python and FastAPI.
• Design and implement LLM-powered applications and RAG pipelines, covering document ingestion, chunking, embeddings, retrieval and response generation.
• Build AI agents and tool-calling workflows to automate business processes.
• Integrate LLM APIs, enterprise data sources and external applications.
• Work with vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate or pgvector.
• Evaluate and improve retrieval relevance, response accuracy, grounding and overall application quality.
• Implement safeguards for hallucinations, prompt injection and sensitive-data handling.
• Optimize AI applications for latency, reliability and model usage costs.
• Build REST APIs, data-processing workflows and integrations with relational, document or graph databases.
• Write maintainable code, automated tests and evaluation datasets; participate in code reviews, CI/CD and deployment.
• Collaborate with client stakeholders and engineering teams to translate business requirements into working AI solutions.

Preferred candidate profile

• 3 to 6 years of software engineering experience, including hands-on development of AI-enabled applications.
• Strong production experience with Python and FastAPI.
• Practical experience building LLM applications, RAG pipelines and AI agents.
• Strong understanding of document chunking, embeddings, semantic search, retrieval strategies and context management.
• Experience integrating LLM APIs and implementing structured outputs, tool calling and prompt workflows.
• Hands-on experience with Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector or similar vector-search technologies.
• Ability to evaluate AI outputs, diagnose retrieval failures and improve application accuracy.
• Understanding of secure API development, testing, logging and production monitoring.
• Familiarity with frameworks such as LangChain or LlamaIndex is preferred.
• Knowledge of React.js is an advantage.
• Comfortable working directly with clients and adapting to evolving requirements.
• Available to work onsite in Bengaluru; immediate joiners preferred.

Perks and benefits