Company: CraftifAI
Work arrangement: Full-time, work from office
Role focus: 70% hands-on research and engineering; 30% technical leadership and ownership
Preferred joining timeline: Candidates who can join in fewer than 45 days are preferred.

About CraftifAI
CraftifAI is building Orbit, a platform that automates engineering workflows across embedded software, Edge AI, and FPGA development. Our work connects requirements, domain knowledge, code generation, testing, validation, and deployment to help engineering teams build working products.
We are looking for a research-driven engineer who can strengthen the LLMs and agentic systems behind these workflows, with a particular focus on productive on-premises deployment and reliable code generation.

About the Role
You will lead the research and implementation of domain-specific LLM solutions and agentic systems for engineering applications. This includes fine-tuning models, reducing their deployment footprint while preserving measured task quality, designing knowledge architectures, building agent harnesses,



and establishing rigorous product benchmarks.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role. Approximately 70% of your time will involve coding, experiments, model optimization, evaluation, and product integration. The remaining 30% will involve architecture decisions, research direction, mentoring, and ownership of technical outcomes.
You should be comfortable moving from a research hypothesis to an implementation, measuring its impact, understanding its failures, and improving it until it works reliably within the product.

What You Will Own
1. LLM Fine-Tuning and Efficient On-Premises Deployment
• Adapt LLMs for engineering tasks, including code generation, tool use, debugging, and reasoning over domain-specific information.
• Build data preparation and fine-tuning workflows using suitable approaches such as supervised fine-tuning, LoRA, QLoRA, and preference optimization.
• Apply and evaluate compression techniq

📌 Lead Research Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 CraftifAI
📍 Bengaluru