Role & responsibilities

Job Title: Principal AI Engineer

Location: Hyderabad, India
Years of Experience: 810 years of hands-on software engineering experience, including building and scaling AI-powered systems in production

Position Overview

We are seeking a Principal AI Engineer to design, build, and scale AI-driven systems across our product platforms. This role is ideal for a deeply technical engineer who leads through hands-on contribution, solves complex problems, and drives the adoption of AI into real-world products.

The ideal candidate brings robust backend and cloud fundamentals, mandatory experience with Java and AWS, and proven experience integrating AI and Generative AI capabilities into production systems. You will work closely with product, architecture, and engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable, AI-enabled solutions that create meaningful business impact.

In this role you will...

AI Engineering & System Design
- Design, build, and operate AI-powered applications, including LLM-based services, ML-driven workflows, and intelligent automation.




- Integrate AI capabilities into Java-based backend systems and cloud-native platforms.
- Design scalable API-first services (REST & GraphQL) exposing AI capabilities across products.
- Implement data pipelines supporting feature engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector search, and inference.
- Apply best practices for prompt design, model orchestration, evaluation, and observability.

Cloud & Platform Engineering (AWS – Must Have)
- Build and operate cloud-native AI systems on AWS, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and EKS.
- Design containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
- Optimize systems for scalability, latency, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or AWS CDK.

Data & Distributed Systems
- Design and operate relational (SQL) and NoSQL data stores for high-scale, distributed systems.
- Make informed trade-offs aro

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