Sr. Python Developer
Emerson Electric Co.3 days ago
Pune, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and develop RESTful and GraphQL APIs using Python frameworks including FastAPI, Django, and Flask.
- Architect scalable backend systems, microservices, asynchronous workloads, data models, business logic, and API gateways.
- Build and integrate web interfaces, reusable UI components, state management, and third-party APIs.
- Develop knowledge-graph, relational, vector-database, and data-processing capabilities.
- Deploy and operate containerized services using Docker, Kubernetes, Nginx, and Terraform.
- Implement authentication, authorization, secure coding, compliance, observability, monitoring, alerting, and error tracking.
- Integrate machine-learning models and build LLM applications, RAG systems, prompt-engineering workflows, agentic AI solutions, MCP servers, and inference pipelines.
- Use machine-learning, data-processing, interpretability, and A/B-testing tools to support model development and evaluation.
- Optimize performance, debug complex issues, and improve application reliability and security.
- Partner with product owners and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical designs and implementation plans.
- Contribute to architecture discussions, technical roadmaps, code reviews, engineering standards, and production support.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and provide technical leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, IT, or an equivalent qualification; an MSc or MCA is preferred.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial production Python development.
- Strong Python fundamentals, including typing, asynchronous programming, API design, error handling, testing, profiling, and maintainable service architecture.
- Production experience with FastAPI or a comparable Python API framework, relational databases, and automated testing.
- Applied experience building or operating LLM-backed applications, preferably RAG systems using embeddings, vector or hybrid retrieval, and reranking.
- Experience evaluating LLM features with representative datasets, measurable acceptance criteria, and regression tests.
- Experience securing APIs and distributed services through authentication, authorization, secrets management, and safe handling of sensitive data.
- Experience operating containerized services in Kubernetes or a comparable production platform.
- Strong communication and technical leadership skills, including explaining tradeoffs, reviewing designs, mentoring engineers, and owning production support.
- Experience with agents or MCP servers, permissioned tools, auditability, and robust failure behavior is preferred.
- Familiarity with inference serving and optimization, including batching, concurrency limits, quantization, GPU memory management, or model capacity planning, is preferred.
- Experience with PostgreSQL/pgvector, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana is preferred.
- React and TypeScript experience is preferred if the role contributes substantially to the UI.
- Experience with Agile development, industrial automation, process control, engineering documentation, safety- or reliability-sensitive domains, on-premises or air-gapped deployments, private registries, customer-managed certificates, or local inference is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits plans, including a variety of medical insurance plans and an Employee Assistance Program.
- Employee resource groups, recognition programs, mentorship, training, and leadership-development opportunities.
- Flexible time off plans, paid parental leave, vacation, and holiday leave.
- Inclusive and collaborative workplace culture focused on employee well-being, career development, and diverse perspectives.
Tech Stack
DjangoDockerFastAPIFlaskGrafanaGraphQLJavaScriptKubernetesMySQLNeo4jNumPyPandasPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonPyTorchRabbitMQReactRedisscikit-learnTensorFlowTerraformTypeScriptXGBoost
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About Emerson Electric Co.
Emerson Electric Co. builds industrial automation hardware and software for manufacturers, energy and utilities, and other process-intensive industries. Its portfolio includes Fisher control valves, DeltaV and Ovation control systems, Rosemount measurement and sensing, and lifecycle services, with software partnerships and holdings such as AspenTech. Founded in 1890 and headquartered in St. Louis, it is a public company (NYSE: EMR) serving markets like energy, chemicals, life sciences, power, and food and beverage.