Hands-on Principal AI Engineer to take AI systems from experimentation through to reliable production.

This is an individual contributor role with architectural ownership,

working closely with technical leadership. The platform is already beyond the prototype stage, with real engineering challenges across applied ML, model serving, and agentic systems.

- Fine-tuning and evaluating small and mid-sized language models against meaningful production baselines.
- Building and operating GPU inference services, balancing latency,

throughput, and cost.

- Developing agent runtimes with reliable tool execution, permissions,

and failure handling.

- Owning production delivery, including monitoring, secure rollouts,

rollback, and clear documentation.

trained and served models in production, worked directly with AWS, Linux, and containers, and owned technical outcomes end to end.

engineering depth, sound judgment, and evidence of systems you've shipped and operated.

Pay: ₹1,180,000.00 - ₹2,610,000.00 per year

Application Question(s)

- Apply only if JD suits/Immediate joiner/Need atleast 6 years experience/ curren CTC & Expect CTC

Work Location: Remote

📌 Principal AI Engineer (India)
🏢 Plugzmart, IIT Madras Research Park
📍 India