The Role
We are looking for a Principal AI Engineer to lead the design and development of AI-native products across our platform.
This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys owning the full product lifecycle. You will design AI workflows, build scalable backend services, develop up-to-date web applications, and operate production systems used by enterprise customers.
You will work across AI, backend, frontend, cloud infrastructure, and product engineering to deliver high-impact capabilities that define the future of patent intelligence.
Responsibilities AI Engineering
· Design, build, and deploy production LLM applications and AI workflows.
· Develop retrieval, reasoning, and agent-based systems for complex patent use cases.
· Improve model quality through prompt engineering, evaluation, testing, and continuous iteration.
· Optimize AI performance, latency, scalability, and cost.
· Monitor production AI systems and continuously improve reliability and accuracy.
Backend Engineering
· Design and develop scalable APIs, services, and data pipelines.
· Build and maintain systems that process and search large patent datasets.
· Design secure, reliable, and multi-tenant cloud services.
· Improve platform performance, observability, and operational excellence.
Frontend Engineering
· Build intuitive web applications using modern frontend technologies.
· Develop AI-powered user experiences with responsive, real-time interactions.
· Deliver high-quality interfaces for document analysis, search, and collaboration.
Technical Leadership
· Lead architecture and technical design decisions.
· Drive engineering best practices across software quality, testing, and deployment.
· Mentor engineers through technical guidance and design reviews.
· Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and domain experts to deliver customer value.
Minimum Qualifications
· 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
· 3+ years building production AI or
📌 Principal AI Engineer (India)
🏢 Lumenci
📍 India