? We're Hiring: R&D; & Automation Engineer (1–2.5 Years Experience) ? Location: Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai (In office) ? Joining: September / October 2026 Imitate Labs is looking for an R&D; & Automation Engineer to help shape the future of Aurra Sales Agent—our live AI voice calling platform serving businesses across real estate, insurance, automotive, healthcare, edtech, and NBFC sectors. This is a builder role, not a maintenance role. You'll focus on researching new technologies, building automation, reducing infrastructure costs, and creating AI-powered capabilities that directly drive business growth.

Production maintenance and uptime are handled by a dedicated Product Engineer, allowing you to concentrate on experimentation and innovation. What You'll Work On

? Cost Reduction R&D;

Evaluate and benchmark AI/voice technologies.

Run structured experiments to reduce cost-per-minute while maintaining quality.

Research alternatives across the AI voice stack and document findings. ? Automation & Orchestration

Build business automations using n8n, Make, or similar platforms.

Automate hiring workflows, AI-based candidate screening, lead routing, and follow-up sequences.

Integrate APIs, webhooks, WhatsApp, CRM, email, and internal systems.

Design reliable workflows with retry and failure recovery. ? Build New Product Features

Develop analytics that customers will pay for:





Lead scoring

Call sentiment insights

Objection analysis

Client ROI dashboards

Call optimization recommendations ? Growth Engineering

Build inbound automation from website forms.

Support AI-powered lead qualification.

Work on technical integrations for marketing campaigns. What We're Looking For

✅ 1–2.5 years of hands-on software development experience

✅ Strong experience with Python and/or Node.js

✅ Practical experience with n8n, Make, Zapier, or similar automation platforms (highly preferred)

✅ Comfortable working with APIs, webhooks, and third-party integrations

✅ Able to independently research, prototype, and solve engineering problems Bonus Skills

LLM APIs (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic)

AI agents or RAG pipelines

WebSockets or real-time systems

Computer Vision

Analytics or reporting dashboard development Why Join Imitate Labs?

✨ Work directly with the Founder on high-impact initiatives.

✨ Own research and automation from day one.

✨ Build products that customers actively use and pay for.

✨ Solve real engineering challenges in AI, automation, and workflow orchestration.

? Interested candidates can apply by Note: This is a direct opportunity with Imitate Labs. The interview process will be conducted entirely by the Imitate Labs team.

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