Job Summary

The Associate, AI Platform Senior Engineer (Foundation Engineering) will support development and maintenance of core AI infrastructure, contributing to agent development, model/prompt optimization, and backend engineering efforts under the guidance of senior team members within the AI Center of Excellence.

Responsibilities

- Assist in building and testing AI agent components and workflows

- Support implementation of LLM optimization and prompt engineering techniques under senior engineer guidance

- Develop and maintain backend services, APIs, and integrations supporting AI systems, deployed on AWS/cloud infrastructure

- Support implementation of Model Context Protocol (MCP)-based integrations for agent tool/data access

- Write clean, well-tested, maintainable Python code

- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and sprint planning

- Document technical processes and contribute to internal knowledge sharing

- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in existing AI infrastructure components

Required Qualifications

- Strong proficiency in Python

- Working knowledge of agent development concepts and frameworks

- Familiarity with LLM/prompt optimization techniques (prompt engineering, RAG, basic fine-tuning approaches)

- Backend development experience (APIs,



databases, service integration)

- Required working knowledge of AWS and cloud services

- Mandatory familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) concepts and implementation

- Background or coursework in machine learning fundamentals preferred

- Good communication skills with ability to work effectively in a cooperative, cross-functional team environment

Educational Requirements

- Bachelors degree required; Masters degree or equivalent postgraduate qualification preferred

Work Experience

- 3+ Years Required; 5+ Years Preferred

Physical Requirements

- Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

Career Level

7IC

Related Skills

- Continuous Integration and Deployment

- Debugging

- DevOps

- Enterprise Application Integration

- Problem Solving

- Programming

- Software Development

- Software Development Life Cycle

- Software Testing

- Systems Design/Analysis

- Systems Development Life Cycle

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📌 Associate - AI Platform Senior Engineer (Mumbai)
🏢 Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA)
📍 Mumbai