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Lead Software Engineer - AI Agents

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2 years ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable backend systems powering real-time AI Agents in enterprise environments.
  • Develop agent orchestration frameworks for multi-step reasoning, tool usage, and decisioning workflows.
  • Build agent memory, context management, and state persistence systems.
  • Architect low-latency inference pipelines integrating LLMs, SLMs, and external tools and services.
  • Implement evaluation frameworks and continuous improvement loops for AI agents.
  • Design and manage event-driven, asynchronous workflows for complex agent tasks.
  • Optimize systems for high throughput, low latency, and cost-efficient inference at scale.
  • Build and maintain REST and gRPC APIs and service layers for agent capabilities.
  • Partner with Applied AI and ML teams to productionize models and agent behaviors.
  • Collaborate with Product and Solutions teams to translate customer workflows into agentic systems.
  • Drive observability, monitoring, safety, and guardrails for AI systems.
  • Contribute to architecture decisions for scalable, multi-tenant, enterprise-grade AI platforms.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in backend engineering, distributed systems, or platform engineering.
  • Strong experience building high-scale, production-grade backend systems.
  • Experience designing real-time processing, streaming, or event-driven architectures.
  • Strong understanding of REST and gRPC API design and microservices architectures.
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and high-scale data modeling.
  • Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Strong fundamentals in system design, concurrency, and performance optimization.
  • Strongly preferred: experience with LLMs, conversational AI, or AI-powered products in production.
  • Strongly preferred: familiarity with agent frameworks, tool calling, or multi-step reasoning systems.
  • Strongly preferred: experience building or integrating RAG pipelines, vector databases, or retrieval systems.
  • Strongly preferred: exposure to offline or online evaluation systems and A/B testing for AI systems.
  • Strongly preferred: understanding of prompting strategies, context windows, and model behavior optimization.
  • Strongly preferred: experience with real-time decisioning systems or workflow orchestration engines.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation with performance-based upside.
  • Flexible vacation policy.
  • Health insurance coverage.
  • Globally distributed, high-impact team.
  • Opportunity to build cutting-edge AI products at scale.
  • Regular team offsites and in-person collaboration.
  • Hybrid work model in Noida with 2–3 days per week in the office.
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