01 Oct
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Granules India
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Hyderabad
01 Oct
Granules India
Hyderabad
Role Summary
We are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) / AI Engineer to design, build, deploy and operate production-grade agentic AI systems for real-time, AI-driven products. This is a hands-on, end-to-end role: you will own the solution from problem framing through full-stack build, cloud deployment and day-2 operations, working closely with business stakeholders as well as AI, ML and engineering teams.
The role demands three strengths in combination — deep agentic and LLM engineering, the full-stack and cloud/DevOps ability to turn a model into a scalable application, and the business judgement to understand the underlying problem before proposing a solution. This is a full-time, on-site role based in Hyderabad.
Key Responsibilities
Agentic AI and LLM Engineering
- Architect, develop and integrate scalable agentic AI systems (autonomous and multi-agent, LLM-driven) into enterprise platforms and workflows.
- Design and evolve agent capabilities including planning, memory, RAG, tool usage, async task execution and orchestration.
- Build and tune retrieval pipelines end to end — chunking, embeddings, hybrid and semantic search, re-ranking, grounding and answer-quality evaluation.
- Evaluate emerging agentic models and frameworks; prototype, benchmark and optimise systems for performance, robustness, safety and cost.
Full-Stack Solution Delivery
- Build the complete solution around the agent — APIs, backend services, data layer and clean, usable front-end interfaces.
- Move fast from working prototype to hardened production system without leaving throwaway architecture behind.
- Integrate with enterprise systems, authentication and existing platform components.
Cloud, DevOps and Operations
- Own deployment and runtime: containerisation, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code,
environment and secrets management.
- Deploy and operate agentic systems in production; monitor behaviour, trace LLM calls, diagnose anomalies and implement feedback loops for continuous improvement.
- Engineer for scale and cost — latency, throughput, caching, token and inference spend.
Business Partnering and Solutioning
- Engage business stakeholders directly to understand the problem, the process behind it and the value at stake before designing a solution.
- Frame solutions in business terms — define success metrics, quantify impact, and make pragmatic scope, build-versus-buy and sequencing trade-offs.
- Collaborate with AI engineers and engineering leadership to shape reliable, intuitive interactions with real-time AI systems.
Candidate Profile
Experience (Required)
- 5+ years of overall software engineering experience.
- 2+ years hands-on with LLMs / GenAI / Agentic AI in real, deployed applications — not experimentation alone.
- 1+ years of full-stack development experience.
- Hands-on experience with agent frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, Google ADK or similar.
- Experience building agentic systems, including chat or conversational interfaces, workflow-driven agents, tool use, and LLM-based protocols (e.g., MCP-style or equivalent).
- Proven track record building production AI agents with planning, memory, tool use, delegation and retrieval.
- Practical RAG experience with vector databases and semantic search (FAISS, Pinecone, Milvus, Weaviate, pgvector or similar).
- Working experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP) and with DevOps practices for deploying and scaling services.
Core Competencies
- Python and backend engineering: solid proficiency in Python and modern backend development (FastAPI, Flask or equivalent), including async and API design.
- Full-stack capability: REST and event-driven APIs, SQL and NoSQL data modelling, and a modern front-end framework (React or similar) — enough to ship a complete, usable application rather than a notebook.
- Cloud and DevOps: Docker, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, logging, monitoring and observability, and performance and cost tuning for LLM workloads.
- System design: strong architecture skills for scalable, resilient LLM applications, and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly.
- Business lens: ability to understand the business problem and process, translate it into a technical solution, and articulate outcomes and value to non-technical stakeholders. This is a core requirement, not a nice-to-have.
- Ownership: comfortable with ambiguity; takes a problem statement through to a deployed, adopted solution.
Good to Have
- Experience deploying agentic systems on platforms such as Vertex AI, Databricks or AWS Bedrock.
- Familiarity with agent safety, evaluation and governance (RLHF, guardrails, eval harnesses, monitoring).
- Background in distributed systems, performance-critical workloads or GPU-based systems.
- Exposure to Kubernetes, Terraform or equivalent orchestration and IaC tooling.
- Prior experience in a forward-deployed, customer-facing or solution-engineering role.
📌 AI Engineer (Manager) (Hyderabad)
🏢 Granules India
📍 Hyderabad