The Agent Platform

The candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions:

Design and build production AI agents across Manifest's brands, starting with the highest-leverage workflows in counselling, admissions outreach, and operational triage.
Own the architecture decisions: model selection, tool use, memory, evaluation, guardrails, and the orchestration layer that holds it together.
Build the abstractions that turn one positive agent into a platform.

Evaluation And Reliability

Define what "working" means for each agent in measurable terms, and build the evaluation infrastructure that proves it.
Own latency, cost, and accuracy as engineering disciplines, not afterthoughts.
Build the safety layer: when an agent should stop, when it should escalate, when it should ask.

Integration Into The Product

Work directly with product and engineering teams across Cialfo, BridgeU, Kaaiser, and Explore to ship agents into the surfaces where users already are.
Translate fuzzy user problems into agent specifications that can actually be built.




Close the loop between user feedback and model behaviour faster than anyone in this industry currently does.

Technical Direction

Set the standard for how AI agents are built at Manifest tooling, frameworks, model providers, evaluation harness, and deployment patterns.
Stay close enough to the research frontier to know what is becoming possible six months out, and ship accordingly.

What Success Looks Like

The markers below reflect where Manifest's AI agent function is today. We'll calibrate the specifics once you're in the seat. These are directional, not fixed.
In the first weeks, you have a clear point of view on which workflows across the portfolio are the highest-leverage places to deploy agents, and you can defend that view to the counsellors, product leaders, and engineers who will use what you build. You have started building, not just planning. Something is in the hands of a real user by the end of month three.
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📌 AI Agent Engineer (India)
🏢 Manifest Global
📍 India