About Freshworks:

Organizations everywhere struggle under the crushing costs and complexities of “solutions” that promise to simplify their lives. To create a better experience for their customers and employees. To help them grow. Software is a choice that can make or break a business. Create better or worse experiences. Propel or throttle growth. Business software has become a blocker instead of ways to get work done.

There’s another option. Freshworks. With a fresh vision for how the world works.

Freshworks Inc. builds uncomplicated service software that delivers exceptional employee and customer experiences. Our people-first approach to AI eliminates friction, helping businesses reduce complexity, lower cost-to-serve, and deliver faster, more human support through enterprise-grade yet easy-to-use CX and IT solutions. Nearly 75,000 companies, including Bridgestone, Current Balance, Nucor, S&P; Global, and Sony Music, trust Freshworks to power their Employee Experience (EX) and Customer Experience (CX) operations.

Fresh vision. Real impact. Come build it with us.





Job Description

About the Role: Freshworks is building next-generation AI-driven customer and employee engagement platforms. As a Principal Engineer - Machine Learning on our AI/ML Engineering team, you will drive the architecture and technical strategy for core backend services powering our Agentic AI Platform. You will lead the development of reasoning-driven agents, multi-agent orchestration, and outcome-based workflows that directly power autonomous AI capability across our suite of enterprise products. This role is pivotal in establishing engineering standards, scaling backend infrastructure, and mentoring senior engineers as we expand our agentic capabilities at enterprise scale.

What You'll Do

• Drive Platform & Runtime Architecture: Lead the architectural design and execution of agent runtime orchestration services, focusing on reasoning, planning, tool invocation, and low-latency execution.

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📌 Principal Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 FreshWorks
📍 Chennai