Senior AI Engineer - Systems & Integration, Emergence | India - Remote | Full time

Who We Are
Emergence is a thematic holding company backed by the Pritzker Organization focused exclusively on acquiring and scaling category-defining software businesses. We invest in focused portfolios, specialized operating groups with deep domain expertise and proven playbooks. Emergence combines operational rigor with a growth equity mindset, driving sustainable ARR growth, profitability improvements, and industry-leading customer outcomes.

The Mission
Design and deploy production AI systems that integrate cleanly across multiple backend services, enabling portfolio companies to embed AI at scale.

What You'll Do
- Design end-to-end AI integration architectures connecting LLM APIs, vector databases, and inference systems to existing backend infrastructure.
- Build reusable ML infrastructure components like feature pipelines, model serving layers, and evaluation frameworks that multiple portfolio companies standardize on.




- Establish AI system integration best practices and governance patterns that become repeatable playbooks across the holding company.
- Own system design reviews for AI initiatives across portfolio companies, identifying bottlenecks and recommending architectural improvements.
- Optimize production AI systems for cost and latency by profiling pipelines, implementing compression, and right-sizing compute infrastructure.
- Mentor engineers at portfolio companies on production AI best practices, reproducibility, monitoring, and safe deployment patterns.

What We're Looking For

Must-haves
- 5+ years building backend systems or integrations with hands-on experience connecting multiple third-party tools and APIs in production.
- Proven track record architecting system integrations at scale that reduced integration time or standardized tooling across teams.
- Strong Python and SQL skills for building data pipelines and backend services that feed AI systems.
- Hands-on

📌 Senior AI Engineer (India)
🏢 Emergence Software
📍 India