The Opportunity

We are looking for a Junior AI Engineer to help build reliable, production-grade applications that solve practical problems for clients and users. You will contribute to applications, integrations, and automation tools, combining software engineering with AI-assisted development.

You will work closely with our design and engineering teams, contributing to features from technical exploration and implementation through to testing, deployment, and ongoing improvement. The role offers hands-on involvement in how solutions are built, with opportunities to contribute ideas and refine your work through code reviews and technical feedback.

Responsibilities

- Develop and maintain application features and automation workflows that improve user experience and simplify business processes.
- Build prototypes to evaluate technical approaches and develop selected solutions into production-ready features.
- Integrate external services, APIs, and AI capabilities into applications.
- Use AI-assisted development tools to support coding, debugging, and testing, while ensuring the quality of the final implementation.
- Support deployments, troubleshoot application issues, and improve reliability and performance with guidance from the team.
- Write readable, maintainable code; test functionality, handle errors, and improve solutions through feedback.
- Collaborate with designers, developers, and project stakeholders to clarify requirements and deliver useful solutions.
- Take responsibility for assigned tasks, document your approach, and communicate progress or blockers clearly.

To Qualify for the Role, You Should Have

- Solid logical reasoning and programming fundamentals, with the ability to write, understand, and debug code in at least one programming language.
- Hands-on experience developing or contributing to production-grade applications that address real user or business needs.
- Practical experience using AI tools to build, debug, or improve software.
- Familiarity with APIs, databases, version control,



and basic software testing and deployment practices.
- A resourceful approach to investigating technical problems, working with documentation, and testing possible solutions.
- Ability to explain your code and technical decisions, including work developed with AI assistance.
- Good communication and teamwork skills, attention to detail, and care for the end-user experience.

What We Look For

- Engineers who have shipped real things production applications or substantial side projects.
- Passionate about staying current with development practices, AI tooling, and the evolving landscape of agentic development.
- Care for the product experience driven to put working software in front of real users

Technologies and Tools The technologies used depend on the project. Familiarity with some of the following is an advantage.

- Application Development: JavaScript, Python, React, React Native, Flutter, Django, Node.js.
- Databases and Data Tools: PostgreSQL, MySQL, pgvector.
- AI and Agents: Vercel AI SDK, Pydantic AI, LLM provider SDKs (OpenAI, Anthropic), agentic browsers.
- AI-Assisted Development: Cursor, Claude Code, Codex.

What We Offer

- Ownership of meaningful systems work across the application, data, and intelligence layers
- A growth path into deeper AI engineering model customization, eval methodology, and agent infrastructure
- Exposure to international product work
- A team that uses AI tools daily and treats engineering craft seriously

Required Candidate profile As the old-world collapses and new digital world is being built around us, we are offering selected candidates an opportunity to make a mark in the ever-changing world of internet communications. We are a team of pioneering professionals in internet communications and are currently working on some marquee international projects. We are looking for 5 qualities apart from some basic technology skills in an ideal candidate.

- Passion
- Sincerity
- Perseverance
- Willingness to work hard
- Capacity and readiness to learn, unlearn and relearn

We will take care of the rest.

📌 Junior AI Software Engineer (Pune)
🏢 Shades of Web
📍 Pune