Role summary
The Senior AI Engineer leads the design, build and operation of the machine learning models, large language model (LLM) services and agentic systems that drive Kaplan’s AI strategy. Your remit spans learner-facing products and internal AI-first business processes. You will be a technical reference point for the AI Engineering team, owning the design of the systems you build and helping set the standard for how we deliver reliable, secure and scalable AI services.
As the Senior AI Engineer, you will:
Lead the design, development and delivery of machine learning, LLM and agentic solutions for learner products and internal business workflows.
Architect agentic workflows, including tool use, structured outputs, multi-agent orchestration and human-in-the-loop patterns.
Champion engineering standards and best practice, and review the designs and code of other engineers.
Own the reliability, cost, security and performance of AI services in production.
Build and maintain evaluation tooling and observability for models and LLM-based systems.




Mentor AI Engineers and help grow our engineering capability.
Collaborate with teams across Kaplan, including product, data science, design and learning teams, to translate requirements into technical direction.
Stay current with recent AI tools and techniques and set direction on their practical adoption.
Detailed responsibilities
Technical leadership and mentoring
Set and champion standards for engineering quality, code review and reusable patterns.
Lead the technical approach on ambiguous or novel problems.
Own the design of the systems you build and shape architectural decisions across the AI platform, aligned with enterprise architecture.
Mentor and develop AI Engineers through review, pairing and technical guidance.
Model and agent development
Lead algorithm and framework selection, and design retrieval and grounding strategies, prompts and embeddings.
Design, build and evaluate agentic workflows using frameworks such as

📌 Senior AI Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Kaplan
📍 Bengaluru