Senior AI Application Engineer

Location: Noida

Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Experience: 5+ years

Role Overview

We are looking for a hands-on AI Application Engineer to build and ship the GenAI/SLM applications designed by our Technical Program Leads — including for air-gapped and on-prem environments. RAG pipelines, agents, fine-tuned models, and the APIs/UI that expose them.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and productionize RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and LLM/SLM-backed features from architecture specs handed off by the Technical Program Lead.
• Fine-tune, quantize, and package SLMs for constrained/offline environments; benchmark accuracy, latency, and cost against alternatives.
• Implement local/offline inference serving (vLLM, Ollama) and vector store integrations (FAISS, Milvus, Weaviate, Qdrant) for air-gapped deployments.
• Write clean, testable, well-documented Python — APIs, data pipelines, and integration layers connecting LLM components to enterprise systems.
• Containerize and deploy applications (Docker/Kubernetes) across cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and on-prem targets.
• Build evaluation harnesses, guardrails, and monitoring/logging for model outputs in line with the governance framework set by the Technical Program Lead.
• Work sprint-to-sprint in JIRA — pick up stories, raise blockers early, keep the board current, and demo working software each sprint.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years professional software engineering; 2+ years building GenAI/ML applications in production.
• Strong Python; hands-on with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar frameworks.
• Practical experience with LLMs/SLMs — prompting, RAG, fine-tuning (LoRA/QLoRA), or model quantization.
• Working knowledge of vector databases and embedding pipelines.
• Comfortable with Docker/Kubernetes and at least one major cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Expert with Claude-driven development — uses Claude Code / Claude-based agents daily as part of the build workflow; comfortable authoring or using custom Skills/MCP tools to speed up delivery.

Reviewer, not just implementer: most code is agent-generated first; your core skill is writing tight specs, critically reviewing agent output line-by-line, catching bugs/edge cases/security issues, and deciding when to trust vs. override the agent — rather than manually writing everything from scratch.

Solid understanding of REST/API design, git workflows, and CI/CD basics.

Behavioural Expectations

Execution-focused: comfortable taking a spec from the Technical Program Lead and running with it with minimal hand-holding — but execution; here means directing and reviewing agentic output, not manual coding for its own sake.

Fluent in Agile/Scrum — active participant in ceremonies, disciplined about JIRA hygiene and sprint commitments.

Clear communicator — flags risks/blockers early, documents decisions, and can explain technical trade-offs to the Technical Program Lead and, when needed, the client.

Mentors junior AI Application Engineers — reviews their code/PRs, helps them write better specs for AI coding agents, and brings them up to speed on RAG/SLM patterns and air-gapped deployment practices.

• Self-driven and self-governed, per companys high-ownership hybrid culture.
• Mentor juniors
• Preferred: background in an IT/consulting services company.

Good to Have

• Exposure to Big Data tooling (Spark/Hive/Hadoop) or Graph Analytics.
• Experience in a regulated or air-gapped delivery environment (defense, government, BFSI).
• Familiarity with AI governance/evaluation frameworks (guardrails, red-teaming, model cards).
• Contribution to open source projects, academic papers published, filled patents.