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AI Engineer - Python
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Contract type:
Permanent
Location:
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Work mode:
Hybrid
Published on:
22 September 2026
What they need
Responsibilities
Build features and services across the AI stack orchestration retrieval/grounding prompt/agent logic
evaluation/guardrails serving and observability
Implement robust data processing and integration pipelines to enable high quality AI applications and analytics
Contribute to design docs code reviews testing and operational playbooks to ensure reliability maintainability
and resilience
Partner with product and business stakeholders to define requirements iterate quickly and measure outcomes
using clear success metrics
Instrument telemetry and evaluation to monitor quality safety latency and cost improve performance
based on data
Follow responsible AI practices for security privacy compliance and safety in collaboration with governance
teams
Participate in on call and incident response rotations as appropriate drive post incident improvements
Share learnings via demos and documentation contribute to AI literacy and enablement across the org
Qualifications
BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
Practical software engineering experience building backend services APIs or data intensive applications
strong foundations in algorithms data structures and systems
Exposure to or handson experience with LLM application concepts such as retrieval grounding prompt agent
design functiontool use evaluation safety guardrails and costlatency optimization
Proficiency with modern software delivery practices version control CICD testing observability familiarity
with cloud native services and containerization
Ability to collaborate with product and business partners strong written and verbal communication skills
Bias to ship learn and iterate comfortable working in fast evolving technology areas with incomplete
information
For Senior level demonstrated ownership of services or platform components endtoend delivery of crossservice
initiatives and contributions to reliabilitySLOs and operational excellence
This is the sumary
Senior AI Engineer Applied AI Technical Competencies
1 Agentic Workflows Memory Systems
Stateful Orchestration Building and debugging productiongrade cyclic multiagent workflows and state machines
Context Memory Engineering Implementing multilayered memory architectures including shortterm memory for active turn execution longterm memory for crosssession state persistence and episodic summarization to manage token context windows
Tool Call Management Designing dependable functioncalling patterns equipped with automated retry logic and selfcorrection handlers
2 Data Retrieval Infrastructure
Vector Relational Storage Managing relational metadata schemas and executing optimized semantic vector similarity searches inside a combined relational database layer
Document Persistence Utilizing documentstore databases to store unstructured execution payloads dynamic agent states and raw chat logs
Hybrid RAG Pipelines Combining relationalexactmatch queries with vectorspace searches for highprecision retrieval
3 Production Reliability Performance
Granular Tracing Instrumenting endtoend tracing to monitor agent execution steps debug nondeterministic loops and track token costs
Automated Evals Creating programmatic evaluation testing and scoring frameworks to benchmark agent accuracy before production deployment
Core Backend Development Writing clean concurrent asynchronous Python code to handle high throughput foundation model APIs
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