Principal Engineer

Pune, Maharashtra

Job Summary

Principal Engineer

Forward-Deployed Engineering Roles: That require deep platform understanding, ability to proactively identify future needs of clients and have positive solution architecture knowledge.

Principal Forward Deployment Engineer

Job Summary

Lead end‑to‑end deployment of scalable Generative AI and agentic systems in complex customer environments. Partner closely with engineering, product, and platform teams to transform customer workflows into robust, production‑grade solutions with strong evaluation practices, safety guardrails, observability, and operational reliability.

Key Responsibilities
Lead customer‑embedded deployments from discovery through pilot, stabilization, and full production rollout
Design multi‑agent workflows, enterprise‑grade RAG pipelines, orchestration layers, and integration patterns
Build evaluation harnesses, safety/ethical guardrails, monitoring dashboards, and failure‑mode detection
Optimize latency, throughput, reliability, and cost for LLM‑powered applications at scale
Diagnose and resolve issues across agents, APIs, data layers,



and model‑serving infrastructure
Produce reusable architectural patterns, reference implementations, and platform feedback for product teams
Work closely with security, governance, and platform engineering teams on responsible deployment practices
Mentor Forward Deployment Engineers, guide design reviews, and set engineering quality bars
Represent engineering in customer conversations, articulating tradeoffs, risks, and solution paths

Skill Requirements
Solid Python engineering background
Demonstrated experience building and deploying LLM/GenAI solutions
Cloud architecture and deployment experience (Azure / AWS / GCP)
Excellent client‑facing communication and problem‑solving skills

Other Requirements

Experience Requirements

Principal‑level ownership of multiple customer deployments, driving solution design, integration, testing, evaluation, and stabilization. Leads design reviews, sets engineering and documentation standards, mentors teams, and ensures production‑grade delivery across diverse customer settings

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