Applied AI Engineer (Agentic Systems)
Hyderabad, India, onsite, mid, full time, 5–8 years
seen 30d ago
- TypeScript
- Retrieval
- Embeddings
- Hybrid Search
- Re-ranking
- Context Engineering
- Python
What they are looking for
* Experience: 5-8 Years * 5–8 years of professional experience, primarily in hands-on software engineering. Demonstrated ownership of production services, incident response and reliability improvement. * Strong Python, with proficiency in at least one additional language. TypeScript is preferred for customer-facing applications and integration tooling. * Demonstrable agentic work. Evidence of building and operating systems with tool use, multi-step orchestration and failure recovery for real users, including the ability to explain production failures and corrective changes. * Working knowledge of retrieval and context engineering – embeddings, hybrid search, re-ranking, context-window economics and the ability to determine when retrieval is not the appropriate design. * Evaluation discipline. Experience using offline and production evaluations as release gates, with automated scoring calibrated against human review. * Framework judgement. Ability to choose between lightweight custom orchestration and a framework based on system complexity, maintainability and operational requirements. * Business and technical communication. Ability to document architecture and decisions, communicate delivery status, and explain non-deterministic behaviour, risk and trade-offs to accountable business and technology stakeholders
Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field
Job Category: Software Engineer
Job Location: Hyderabad
Job Country: India
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