Job Purpose:

The Principal Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for driving the design,

implementation, and management of scalable, secure, and highly available AI solutions that

power portfolio of digital products for the public and private sectors. This role blends

deep technical expertise with strategic thinking and hands-on leadership — setting

architectural direction, championing AI-assisted engineering practices, and mentoring

engineers to build the next generation of intelligent, cloud-native applications. The Principal

Engineer partners closely with the Head of Engineering, product leaders and cross-functional

teams to translate complex business and user needs into resilient, future-ready technical

solutions grounded in open-source principles and up-to-date cloud architecture.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end design, architecture and delivery of scalable, secure and highly

available AI-powered solutions across product portfolio.

• Define and evolve the technical vision for AI/ML platforms, including LLM-based

applications,



RAG pipelines, agentic workflows and ML model lifecycle management.

• Architect distributed, cloud-native systems leveraging AWS, Azure, and/or GCP —

ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, observability and cost efficiency across multi

cloud environments.

• Champion the adoption of AI-assisted development practices (e.g.Claude Code,

Cursor, GitHub Copilot or other agentic coding tools) to accelerate engineering velocity

and elevate code quality across teams.

• Drive the evaluation, selection and integration of open-source frameworks, libraries,

and platforms to build sustainable, vendor-agnostic solutions aligned with

hybrid-source philosophy.

• Provide hands-on technical leadership — writing production-grade code, building

proof-of-concepts and prototypes, reviewing pull requests and shaping critical design

decisions across multiple teams.

• Establish engineering excellence s

📌 Principal Engineer (Thiruvananthapuram)
🏢 Exalans & Hunar
📍 Thiruvananthapuram