Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Job description

**Role & responsibilities** AI Engineering Lead AI Platform & Agent Systems Location: Bangalore, India Type: Full-Time Role Overview We are building a next-generation Enterprise AI Platform powering AI Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, RAG Applications, AI Workflows, and Knowledge Platforms. We are looking for an AI Engineering Lead who will drive the design, architecture, and productionization of AI systems at scale. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for owning the end-to-end lifecycle of AI infrastructure and applicationsfrom design and development to deployment, operations, and continuous optimization. You will lead the AgentOps and AI Platform engineering efforts, ensuring that AI systems are scalable, reliable, secure, and enterprise-ready across cloud and hybrid environments. Key Responsibilities AI Platform & Architecture Leadership - Lead the architecture and development of AI platforms supporting agents, workflows, RAG systems, and LLM-based applications. - Define best practices for AI system design, model orchestration, inference pipelines, and runtime infrastructure. - Drive the evolution of AgentOps frameworks for managing AI agents at scale. Engineering Leadership - Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of engineers working on AI infrastructure and platform systems. - Collaborate cross-functionally with AI Research, Product, and Platform teams to deliver production-grade AI solutions. - Establish engineering standards, design patterns, and development practices. AI Systems & AgentOps - Design and manage AI agent architectures, workflow orchestration, and multi-agent systems. - Build and operate Model Gateways and LLM routing layers across providers (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, etc.). - Lead development of RAG systems with vector databases and retrieval pipelines. - Optimize latency, throughput, and cost of AI workloads. Platform & Infrastructure Engineering - Own Kubernetes-based platforms for scalable AI workloads (GKE preferred). - Design and implement cloud-native architectures across GCP (primary), AWS/Azure (secondary). - Lead Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and platform automation initiatives. - Establish CI/CD and GitOps-based deployment models for AI systems. Reliability, Observability & Operations - Define and implement SRE practices including monitoring, alerting, and incident management. - Architect observability using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Cloud Monitoring. - Drive production readiness, scalability planning, and disaster recovery strategies. Enterprise Deployments & Security - Ensure AI platform compliance with enterprise-grade security and governance standards. - Implement IAM, RBAC, SSO, secrets management, and network security controls. - Support customer deployments across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. Mandatory Skills & Experience AI Engineering & Systems - Strong experience building and deploying LLM-based applications and AI platforms. - Deep understanding of RAG architectures, vector databases, and AI inference pipelines. - Experience with AI model APIs and/or self-hosted inference (vLLM, TGI, Ollama, etc.). - Knowledge of agent-based systems, workflow engines, and model orchestration patterns. Cloud & Platform Engineering - Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). - Expertise in services such as GKE, Cloud Run, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, IAM, VPC, and Monitoring. - Experience designing scalable, secure, multi-environment cloud architectures. Kubernetes & Distributed Systems - Deep production experience with Kubernetes (GKE preferred). - Strong understanding of containerization, autoscaling, networking, storage, and high availability. - Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures. Infrastructure & DevOps - Strong expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks. - Experience with CI/CD, GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux), and release automation. - Proven ability to build automated, scalable platform infrastructure. Observability & Reliability - Experience with monitoring, logging, and tracing systems (Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL, etc.). - Strong understanding of SRE principles, incident management, and reliability engineering. Leadership & Ownership - Proven experience leading complex engineering initiatives or mentoring teams. - Ability to own end-to-end system delivery and operational excellence. Highly Desirable - Experience with self-hosted LLM infrastructure (vLLM, Ray Serve, TGI). - Hands-on with vector databases (Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, pgvector). - Knowledge of Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd). - Experience with workflow orchestration tools (Temporal, Airflow, Dagster). - Exposure to Platform Engineering / Internal Developer Platforms (IDP). - Understanding of FinOps and cost optimization for AI workloads.Preferred candidate profile **Preferred candidate profile**