Job Summary

We are looking for a lead-capable AI/ML Engineer to take complex AI systems from design to production, and to anchor the technical quality of our engineering team in India.

DigitalOcean is building the substrate for an AI-native company, and the AI Engineering team is doing that work. It spans three connected pillars: internal AI copilots and agents for teams across Finance, People, Sales, Marketing, Support, and IT; the internal AI platform that powers them: model access and routing, agent runtimes, evaluation harnesses, and the developer tooling around them; and re-architecting business processes across our enterprise systems footprint to be AI-native. Our engineers in the US and India work together across time zones, each owning delivery end to end for their business domains while contributing to the shared platform.

You will be the senior-most engineer on the team in India-owning critical systems, leading multi-person workstreams, and working with our architect to set the technical bar. This is a leadership role without direct reports:



your influence comes from the quality of your designs, the decisions you make when the answer is genuinely unclear, and the engineers who get better because of you.

It is also the role closest to the business. You will sit with the people whose work an agent is about to change, understand what they actually do, and design something that earns their trust. Agents that touch systems of record are unforgiving of vague requirements, and translating an ambiguous business problem into a well-bounded system is the hardest part of this job.
What You'll Do
- Own complex systems and lead multi-person workstreams end to end, making the key design decisions for the critical agents, copilots, and platform services in your domains.
- Design agentic systems with production rigor: orchestration, tool use, capability boundaries, memory and state, evaluation, observability, guardrails, and cost per completed task.
- Drive the qualit

📌 Senior Software Engineer II, AI/ML (Bengaluru)
🏢 DigitalOcean
📍 Bengaluru