Forward Deployed Engineer AI/ML & Generative AI

Job Location: Hyderabad, Telangana

Work Model: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Experience: 2 Years

Education: B.Tech/B.E./M.Tech/M.E. from IITs, NITs, or IIITs only

About the Role:

We are looking for a talented and hands-on Forward Deployed Engineer with 2 years of experience to join our team in Hyderabad. The ideal candidate should have strong experience in Python, Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and modern AI application development frameworks. This role requires a combination of strong engineering fundamentals, AI/ML expertise, and the ability to work closely with customers and business teams to translate real-world problems into scalable AI solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

- Work directly with customers and internal stakeholders to understand business problems and translate them into AI/ML solutions.
- Design and develop production-ready AI/ML and Generative AI applications.
- Build and optimize LLM-powered applications using APIs such as OpenAI, Claude, or equivalent models.
- Develop robust RAG pipelines involving document ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector search, retrieval, reranking, and response generation.
- Build AI agents and workflows using LangChain, LlamaIndex, or comparable frameworks.
- Develop scalable backend services and AI workflows using Python.
- Integrate LLMs with internal data sources, APIs, databases, and enterprise applications.
- Rapidly prototype AI solutions and convert successful prototypes into reliable, production-grade systems.
- Experiment with prompting strategies, context management, model selection,



and evaluation techniques.
- Improve the accuracy, latency, reliability, and cost efficiency of AI/ML solutions.
- Implement evaluation frameworks and monitoring for LLM/RAG applications.
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical challenges across AI applications, integrations, and deployments.
- Collaborate closely with product, engineering, data, and business teams to deliver customer-focused solutions.
- Stay current with advancements in LLMs, Generative AI, RAG, AI agents, embeddings, and related technologies.

Required Skills:

- 2 years of professional experience in AI/ML, Machine Learning, Generative AI, NLP, Software Engineering, or a closely related field.
- Strong proficiency in Python.
- Hands-on experience working with LLM APIs, including OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, or equivalent.
- Practical experience with RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architectures.
- Experience with LangChain and/or LlamaIndex.
- Understanding of embeddings, vector databases, semantic search, and document retrieval.
- Good understanding of NLP and Machine Learning fundamentals.
- Experience building and integrating REST APIs and AI services.
- Strong software engineering and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, and production-quality code.




- Strong communication skills and the ability to work directly with customers/stakeholders.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and rapidly develop solutions to ambiguous problems.

Good to Have:

- Experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus, FAISS, or equivalent.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with Docker and CI/CD.
- Knowledge of MLOps and model evaluation.
- Experience with AI agents, tool calling, function calling, or multi-agent workflows.
- Familiarity with open-source LLMs such as Llama, Mistral, Qwen, or equivalent.
- Experience with FastAPI or similar Python backend frameworks.
- Experience working in customer-facing engineering, solutions engineering, consulting, or technical implementation roles.

Educational Qualification Mandatory:

- B.Tech/B.E./M.Tech/M.E. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Technology, Electronics, or a related discipline.
- Degree must be from an IIT, NIT, or IIIT.
- Candidates from colleges/universities other than IITs, NITs, and IIITs will not be considered for this position.

What We Offer:

- Opportunity to work on real-world Generative AI and LLM applications.
- Direct exposure to customer problems and high-impact AI use cases.
- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge LLM and AI technologies.
- Collaborative and high-growth engineering environment.
- Hybrid work model based out of Hyderabad.
- Full-time opportunity with significant technical ownership and career growth.

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