Description:

We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer to design, build, and operate production-grade AI applications. In this role, you will develop backend services and APIs that integrate large language models into business workflows, with a strong focus on reliability, safety, observability, and maintainability.
This is an engineering-first role for someone with strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience delivering LLM-powered systems to production. You should be comfortable owning services end to end, adapting them as models and requirements evolve, and helping teams adopt effective AI engineering practices.

Mandatory skills

- Robust Python and backend engineering skills for building production-grade services and APIs
• Proven experience developing and shipping LLM-powered applications in production
• Strong understanding of prompt engineering, structured outputs, context management, and tool calling
• Experience integrating foundation models and LLM platforms such as Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, or Bedrock
• Strong experience in API design,



testing, deployment discipline, observability, evaluation, and failure handling
• Solid practical understanding of AI safety, reliability, and evaluation, including guardrails, fallback patterns, and output validation
• A pragmatic approach to solving messy real-world problems with clean, maintainable systems
• Curious, delivery-focused, and comfortable working in a fast-moving technical landscape.

Desired skills

- Experience designing and operating LLM systems with orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, MCP, RAG, Graph databases
• Familiarity with platform engineering practices such as Infrastructure as Code and performance testing for production APIs
• Experience working with Java or Kotlin
• Ability to prototype and experiment quickly using tools such as streamlit and Jupyter notebooks
• Background in applied NLP tasks such as classification or PII detection

📌 AI SDLC Engineer (India)
🏢 Kairos Technologies
📍 India