Senior AI Engineer

Role : Senior AI Engineer Stealth-Mode AI Startup | Visakhapatnam | Full-Time (In-Office)

- Building an AI-powered Business Operations Platform for Indian enterprises.

- Focus on agentic AI, enterprise workflows, and business process automation.

- Customers include defence contractors, manufacturing, insurance, steel trading, and enterprise businesses.

- AI is embedded into real business operationsnot chatbot solutions.

Key Responsibilities :

- Build Agentic AI applications for business workflows.

- Develop RAG-based applications using documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, ERP/CRM, and enterprise data.

- Design AI copilots for business users.

- Build LLM-powered applications with prompt engineering, tool calling, guardrails, evaluations, and fine-tuning.

- Develop scalable full-stack applications with AI integrated into the product.

- Create backend services, APIs, enterprise integrations, and workflow automation.

- Integrate with ERP, CRM, HRMS, accounting, inventory, and legacy systems.

- Design business workflows for approvals, escalations, audits, and operational processes.

- Work closely with customers to understand business problems and deliver solutions.

- Own architecture, development, deployment, and production support.

Required Skills:

- 8 to 12 years of software engineering experience (flexible for exceptional candidates).

- Strong Full Stack Development experience.

- Hands-on expertise with:

1. LLMs (GPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.)

2. RAG

3. Embeddings

4. Prompt Engineering

5. Fine-tuning

6. AI Evaluations (Evals)

7. Tool Calling

8. Guardrails

9. Agentic AI

- Experience with AI coding tools:

1. Cursor

2. Claude Code

3. GitHub Copilot

4. Codex

5. Replit

6. Bolt/Lovable

- Strong knowledge of:

1. System Design

2. Scalability & Reliability

3. Security

4. Observability

5. API Design

6. Enterprise Integrations

7. Event-driven Architecture

- Excellent communication and business problem-solving skills.

Interview Process :

- No traditional coding rounds.

- Offline take-home assignment.

- 1-hour technical discussion covering:

1. System architecture

2. AI workflow and prompting strategy

3. Model selection

4. Engineering decisions

5. Data flow and integrations

6. Failure handling

7. Validation and deployment approach

Location :

- Full-time Work From Office (Visakhapatnam).

- Relocation is mandatory.

- International travel may be required.

Growth Opportunities :

- High ownership role.

- Opportunity to grow into Technical Lead, Product Lead, or Engineering Leadership roles.

- Equity may be offered after one year based on performance.

Ideal Candidate :

- Strong product builder with an AI-first mindset.

- Comfortable working across frontend, backend, AI, infrastructure, and customer interactions.

- Experience building production-grade AI applications.

- Thrives in fast-paced startup environments.

- Willing to relocate to Visakhapatnam.