Senior AI Engineer
KION Group AG1 day ago
Pune, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and operate in-house Generative AI applications aligned with KION’s AI Strategy and AI Governance.
- Build LLM-powered applications, AI agents, RAG solutions, APIs, and reusable AI platform components.
- Implement build-test-deploy pipelines for AI and agent solutions with reproducibility and quality controls.
- Integrate AI safety mechanisms, guardrails, hallucination mitigation, explainability, traceability, and source attribution.
- Research emerging AI technologies and assess their suitability for adoption.
- Translate business requirements into production-ready technical solutions in collaboration with stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
- Monitor, evaluate, troubleshoot, and continuously improve production AI services and model performance.
- Manage incidents, changes, and user support requests for AI services and platforms.
- Create technical documentation and support knowledge sharing across the organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- At least 4–5 years of professional experience as an application developer, ideally in AI/ML or backend service development.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs including Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini.
- Expertise in prompt engineering, context management or architecture, AI search, and RAG pipeline design.
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, and JavaScript/TypeScript, with strong client-server, API, and MCP development experience.
- Working knowledge of Terraform and cloud resource management in GCP or Azure.
- Familiarity with LLMOps/AgentOps tooling, LangChain/LangGraph, ADK, and pgvector.
- Experience building trustworthy AI systems with evaluation frameworks, hallucination mitigation, explainability, traceability, and AI guardrails.
- Experience deploying reliable and scalable AI applications to production and monitoring and troubleshooting production services.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, usability, and user-focused skills.
- Certification such as GitHub Certified: Agentic AI Developer or Claude Certified Architect - Foundations is advantageous.
- Very good knowledge of English and, preferably, experience in an enterprise context.
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About KION Group AG
KION Group AG builds industrial trucks (forklifts) and warehouse automation systems for manufacturers, logistics providers, and e-commerce operators. It operates through brands such as Dematic, Linde Material Handling, STILL, and Baoli, offering equipment, software, and lifecycle services including maintenance and fleet management. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, KION is a public company listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.