AI Engineer Junior (1-3 Years) Mumbai, India Full-time, in office Apply for this role Overview
Unico Connect is seeking an AI Engineer to build and ship production AI features for client web and mobile products. The role spans LLM integration, RAG pipeline implementation, evaluation harness setup, and the day-to-day engineering that turns AI proof-of-concepts into reliable production systems. The position is well suited to early-career engineers with hands-on LLM project experience and the appetite to deepen into RAG, agentic workflows, and AI-engineering best practices.
Key Responsibilities
• Build LLM-powered features including chatbots, copilots, RAG search, document AI, and agentic workflows
• Implement RAG pipelines end-to-end covering ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector indexing, and reranking
• Write Python backends with FastAPI to expose AI capabilities as production APIs
• Set up evaluation pipelines with LangSmith or Ragas to catch behavioural regressions before deployment
• Integrate AI features into React and Next.js client apps with streaming, fallbacks,



and rate limiting
• Monitor LLM costs and latency in production; implement caching, model tiering, and prompt compression
• Triage AI-specific incidents including hallucinations, prompt injections, and retrieval poisoning
• Contribute to internal AI engineering documentation, runbooks, and architecture write-ups
• Pair with Senior AI Engineers on architecture decisions and code reviews
• Participate in weekly AI engineering reviews and quarterly evaluation framework retrospectives

Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field
• 1-3 years of software engineering experience with at least 1 production LLM project shipped
• Strong Python (FastAPI or Django) and at least basic Node.js or TypeScript
• Hands-on experience with OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google Gemini APIs
• Familiarity with LangChain or LangGraph, prompt engineering, and embedding-ba

📌 AI Engineer (Mumbai)
🏢 Unico Connect
📍 Mumbai