Founding AI Engineer - Gurugram

Join Valo as a Founding AI Engineer and build AI agents that turn everyday requests into completed tasks. Own the intelligence, agent architecture, and execution systems powering personal assistants for millions of Indians.

Company Details

Valo (by Persin) is building an AI-powered personal assistant that every Indian can afford. The vision is to make personal assistance accessible to millions of working adults across India, helping them manage everyday tasks through phone calls, WhatsApp, payments, and digital services.

Valo is backed by three VCs and led by an experienced founding team with backgrounds at Zomato, Magicpin, IDFC Bank, Grab, Microsoft, Airtel, and Kapture CX.

Website: https://valo.persin.ai/

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience in AI engineering, machine learning engineering, applied AI, or related roles.

• Currently working at a product-based company.

• Previous experience being part of a founding or early-stage engineering team, preferably having taken a product from 0 to 1.

• Hands-on experience building and running production-grade LLM agents, including multi-step tool calling, MCP servers, context management, memory, structured outputs, and streaming.

• Experience building browser or computer-use agents using Playwright, CDP, or similar technologies.

• Experience building agent evaluation and observability systems, including trajectory logging, replayable runs, LLM-as-judge scoring, and regression testing.

• Strong Python skills, including experience with asyncio and frameworks such as FastAPI or Django.

• Production experience with AWS, including ECS, SQS or Celery workers, autoscaling, CloudWatch, and CI/CD.

• High ownership, high agency, and the ability to work independently in an early-stage startup environment.

• Open to working in-office in Gurgaon six days a week.

• Genuinely interested in joining a startup and building products from zero to one.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and development of AI agents that can take user requests and complete multi-step tasks independently.

• Build and improve the agent harness, including tool calling, MCP servers, memory, context management, and structured outputs.

• Develop browser and computer-use agents capable of completing real-world tasks across third-party websites, including login flows, OTP verification, and dynamic pages.

• Build intelligent workflows that can recover from failures, handle incomplete tasks, and verify whether an action has actually been completed.

• Design and implement scheduling systems that can keep tasks running across multiple days and resume execution when required.

• Build evaluation frameworks to measure agent performance, reliability, and accuracy.

• Establish observability through trajectory logging, replayable runs, LLM-as-judge scoring, and regression testing.

• Work on improving agent performance using real-world task outcomes and feedback.

• Work directly with the founders to make critical technical and product decisions.

• Take complete ownership of AI systems, from initial architecture to production deployment and scaling.

Job Details

Gurgaon (In-office, 6 days a week)

Interview Process

• Technical Screening

• AI/LLM Engineering Round

• System Design Round

• Founders' Round

• Culture Fit Round

Important Note

ClanX is a recruitment partner, helping Valo hire a Founding AI Engineer.