Position: Staff Engineer, Embedded AI

Team: Embedded AI Engineering

Level and grade: L5, Senior Manager equivalent on the Embedded AI Engineering band

Position type: Full time, permanent

Location: India, with regular time on client sites

Reports to: Senior Staff Engineer, Embedded AI

Travel: 25 to 30 percent, mostly to client sites in India

About Us

APLYD helps governments, multilateral institutions, development finance institutions and foundations use AI in public systems. Most public-sector AI stops at the pilot. Our work is getting it into everyday service delivery and keeping it running once we leave.

Athena Infonomics has done this work for years. In 2026 we set it up as its own company. We cover strategy and readiness, field data and last-mile reach, design and build, evaluation and audit, and scale and production.

440+ engagements

240+ global clients
85+ specialists
7 countries
5 continents

The Role

You own a major part of a client system end to end: the design, the build, the deployment and what happens once it is live,



including any models inside it. Two seats are open. One carries the registry, credential and wallet layer on a rural programme and the platform beneath it; the other carries the equivalent scope on a national self-help group platform.

Most of what we build is not a model. Registries, credential and wallet layers, group financial records, synchronisation for intermittent connectivity, offline-first clients and the migrations that keep them alive are the bulk of the work, and they have to be engineered properly before any model on top of them is worth anything.

Embedded describes the way of working, close to the institution and its decisions. It does not require sitting in the institution's office or country.

We do not staff a specialist for each component. Everyone here writes production software and everyone here builds models; the levels are separated by the scope a person carries rather than by the technology they work on.

📌 Staff Engineer, Embedded AI (India)
🏢 Athena Infonomics
📍 India