Position: AI Engineer Agentic AI Developer

Location: Pan India

Total Exp: 6 to 9 Yrs

Role purpose

To take a business problem inside client health, wealth and career operations and deliver the agentic application that solves it. End to end: sit with the team, shape the solution, build it, ship it, instrument it, and stay with it while people come to depend on it. The output of this role is running software in daily use, not a specification. It is a hands-on role, and the expectation is that you are in the codebase every day.

Key responsibilities

Discovery and solution shaping

• Sit in the business team's working sessions, watch the process as it actually runs, and record where the time, the errors and the rework go.
• Turn what you heard into a buildable design within days rather than weeks, and walk the agent owner and the business lead through it before you write code.
• Own the architecture decisions: the agent's tools and boundaries, where state lives, how it authenticates, what it does when a model call fails or a tool returns nonsense.




• Write down the options you rejected and why, because that record is what stops the design being reopened three months later.
• Say plainly what cannot be delivered in the window available, and propose the smaller thing that can.

Build and delivery

• Write the production code for the agent: prompts held under version control, tool definitions, orchestration, retries, fallbacks, and the retrieval or context layer it depends on.
• Build the agent-facing front end so a colleague can see what the agent did, understand why, and correct it without calling you.
• Build the services, APIs and integration layers behind it, and the integration into the systems of record.
• Raise pull requests small enough to be reviewed properly, review other people's, and keep the pipeline green.
• Ship into the client workplace with identity, access, secret handling and data residency done correctly the first time.
• Demonstrate working softw

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