Hyderabad, Telangana

Job Summary

AI/ML Engineer - Technical Skill Set (Agentic AI Focus)

1. Core Programming & Systems Skills Python (expert level) for ML, orchestration, and agent logic Strong understanding of async programming, concurrency, and task scheduling Shape 2. Foundations of Agentic AI Design and implementation of autonomous AI agents capable of: Multi‑step reasoning and planning Goal decomposition and task orchestration Agile decision‑making under uncertainty Experience with agent architectures: ReAct, Plan‑and‑Execute, Reflexive agents Hierarchical / multi‑agent systems Tool‑augmented and function‑calling agents Understanding of stateful vs stateless agents and memory management Shape 3. Large Language Models (LLMs) Hands‑on experience with LLMs (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, open‑source models) Prompt‑engineering techniques for: Reasoning (Chain‑of‑Thought, Self‑Reflection) Planning and critique loops Instruction following and tool use Experience with: Few‑shot and zero‑shot prompting Model selection trade‑offs (latency, cost, context length)



Knowledge of fine‑tuning / adapters (LoRA) is a plus Shape 4. Agent Frameworks & Tooling Practical experience with agent frameworks, such as: LangGraph / LangChain (agents, tools, memory) Semantic Kernel AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar Ability to build custom agent orchestration layers beyond frameworks Tool abstraction and execution safety (timeouts, retries, sandboxing) Shape 5. Memory, Context & Knowledge Augmentation Design of agent memory systems: Short‑term (conversation/state memory) Long‑term (episodic, semantic memory) Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG): Vector databases (FAISS, Pinecone, Azure AI Search, etc.) Embedding selection and chunking strategies Techniques for context management and compression Knowledge graph-augmented or hybrid memory (plus) Shape 6. Planning, Reasoning & Control Experience implementing: Task planners (step planning, re‑planning) Constraint‑based execution Feedback and se

📌 Senior Technical Lead (Hyderabad)
🏢 HCLTech
📍 Hyderabad