Overview

Item.com is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to build production AI applications that solve concrete business problems. You will combine software engineering, LLM/ML application design, data integration, evaluation, and production operations.

Responsibilities

- Ship AI applications that deliver measurable operational or customer value.

- Establish repeatable approaches for evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and improvement.

- Help move AI work from prototype to maintainable product capability.

- Design and implement AI application services using Python and/or TypeScript.

- Build retrieval, classification, extraction, summarization, and decision-support capabilities as appropriate.

Minimum Requirements:

- Robust software engineering experience with production services, APIs, testing, and cloud deployment.

- Practical experience shipping LLM/ML-enabled applications, not only experimenting with models.





- Experience with retrieval, embeddings, vector/data stores, prompt/version management, or model evaluation is valuable.

- Ability to explain data quality, model/application tradeoffs, fallback behavior, and production incidents.

- Clear ownership mindset and ability to work from ambiguous problems to operating software.

Preferred Requirements:

- Develop data pipelines, APIs, storage patterns, test coverage, and deployment workflows.

- Define and run evaluations for quality, safety, latency, and cost; use findings to improve systems.

- Instrument services with logging, tracing, metrics, alerting, and production runbooks.

- Collaborate with product, operations, and platform teams on requirements, security, and lifecycle ownership.

📌 Applied AI Engineer (India)
🏢 UNIS
📍 India