We're looking for a
Principal AI Engineer
This role is
Office Based
Job Title:
Principal AI Engineer

Location:
Hyderabad, India

Years of Experience:
8–10 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
solid 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, distr

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