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
Valuable communication skills with ability to work effectively in a cooperative, cross-functional team workplace

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
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