Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Job Title: Senior AI Engineer Generative AI / LLM

Location: Pune (Hybrid)

Shift: US Shift

Experience: 5 to 10 years (adjust the upper limit as needed)

Salary: [As per industry standards / add range]

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

We are looking for a hands-on Senior AI Engineer with strong experience in Generative AI, LLMs, RAG and AI agents. You will design, build and deploy enterprise AI solutions, own delivery from PoC to production, and guide junior engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable Generative AI and LLM-based applications
• Build and optimise RAG pipelines using embeddings, vector databases and semantic search
• Develop AI assistants, copilots and agentic workflows (prompt engineering, function calling, tool integration)
• Deploy and monitor AI solutions on Azure / AWS / GCP with CI/CD, security and AI guardrails
• Integrate REST APIs, SQL databases, SharePoint and enterprise applications
• Mentor junior engineers, review code and collaborate with business stakeholders

Required Skills

• 5+ years of overall experience in software or AI engineering
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in Generative AI / LLM application development
• Strong Python programming
• Practical experience with LLM integration, prompt engineering, embeddings and RAG
• Experience building AI agents or GenAI-powered applications
• Knowledge of vector databases and semantic search
• Experience with REST APIs, SQL and enterprise integration
• Hands-on experience with at least one cloud platform (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP considered)

Education: BE/B.Tech/MCA or equivalent

Keywords: Generative AI, LLM, RAG, AI Agents, Python, Prompt Engineering, Vector Database, Azure, AWS, GCP, LangChain, Semantic Search, REST API, SQL

Contact: Maithili.Baviskar@ethirajassociates.in