Position: Senior Staff Engineer, Embedded AI

Team: Embedded AI Engineering

Level and grade: L6, Associate Director equivalent on the Embedded AI Engineering band

Position type: Full time, permanent

Location: India, with regular time on client sites

Reports to: Chief Executive Officer

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 are the senior engineer on APLYD's work. You design and build the systems public institutions run on, and the models that sit inside them,



for clients whose data is incomplete and whose infrastructure you do not control. You set the technical standard for everyone who joins after you.

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.

This is a hands-on role. You write code every week and you train mode

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