Lead AI Engineer

Job Requirement details

Job Title / Role Lead AI Engineer

Type of Employment (Full time/Contract/Contract to hire) Ful time

Years of Experience Required (Min-Max) 5 - 8 years

No. of Positions 2

CTC in INR 15- 24 LPA

Company Name: Pandora R&D Labs Pvt Ltd

Highest Qualification Required Any Graduation

Work Location Hyderebad

Mode of Work (Remote/On-site/Hybrid) 5 Days WFO, [ Sunday & Monday weekoff]

Notice Period/ Start Date Flexibility 0 - 15 Days

On-site feasibility (work abroad) N/A

Interview Rounds "L1 - Technical Coding Assesmet

L2 - Technical [F2F]

L3 -techno Managrial

HR"

Interview Panel Time slots 11 AM to 6 PM

Office Time 10 AM to 7 PM

Weekend Drives Yes

Salaries paid on Last working day of the month

Must/Good to Have Details

Must have "Programming Languages

* Python (Mandatory)

* JavaScript/TypeScript (Preferred)

* Database [Vector DB & Redis]

Backend Development

* FastAPI

* Django

* REST APIs

* WebSockets

* Async Programming (asyncio)

* Microservices

* Redis

1. Large Language Models (LLMs)

Must have experience with:

* OpenAI APIs (Chat Completions / Responses API)

* GPT-4o / GPT-5 or equivalent LLMs

* Claude

* Gemini (Preferred)

Good understanding of:

* Prompt Engineering

* Function Calling / Tool Calling

* Structured Outputs

* JSON Schema

* Context Window Management

* Token Optimization

* AI Safety

* Model Evaluation

2. Voice AI

Hands-on experience with:

* Speech-to-Text (STT)

* Text-to-Speech (TTS)

* OpenAI Realtime API

* Streaming Audio

* Voice Activity Detection (VAD)

* Realtime WebSocket APIs

3. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Experience with:

* Embeddings

* Vector Databases

Preferred databases:

* Redis Vector Search

* Pinecone

* Weaviate

* Qdrant

* Milvus

AI Libraries & Frameworks

Strong experience with:

* OpenAI SDK

* LangChain

* LlamaIndex

* Hugging Face Transformers

* Sentence Transformers

* Pydantic AI

Preferred Domain Experience

* Conversational AI

* Voice AI

* AI Assistants

* Customer Support Automation

* Workflow Automation"

Good to have "• MCP (Model Context Protocol)

* AI Guardrails

* Prompt Versioning

* Cost Optimization

* AI Evaluation Frameworks"

Roles & Responsibilities "• Design and develop AI-powered enterprise applications using LLMs.

* Build Voice AI solutions for real-time conversational systems.

* Develop AI Agents capable of reasoning, planning, and tool execution.

* Design and implement RAG pipelines using vector databases.

* Integrate AI services with REST APIs, WebSockets, SIP, and enterprise systems.

* Develop scalable Python microservices.

* Optimize AI applications for latency, cost, and accuracy.

* Build reusable AI workflows and tool-calling frameworks.

* Collaborate with Product, QA, and DevOps teams.

* Evaluate and integrate emerging AI technologies.

Pay: ₹1,500,000.00 - ₹2,400,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person