AI Research Engineer

Zycus; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Zycus is building an Agentic AI Platform and seeks exceptional engineers and researchers to design core AI tech, including autonomous agents, memory systems, planning, and knowledge retrieval. You will read research, reproduce techniques, prototype ideas, and translate research into production systems while improving latency, cost, and reliability across enterprise AI.

Ideal candidates have a PhD or MTech, strong Python, distributed systems expertise, and a passion for frontier AI.

Qualifications

• MTech or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics, Computational Linguistics, or a related discipline
• Outstanding software engineering skills in Python
• Strong foundations in algorithms, distributed systems, and software architecture
• Deep understanding of machine learning and modern AI techniques
• Curiosity to explore frontier AI research
• Ability to translate research ideas into working systems

Responsibilities

• Read and implement cutting-edge AI research
• Reproduce state-of-the-art techniques from leading conferences and journals
• Evaluate emerging foundation models and reasoning architectures
• Prototype new ideas rapidly and validate them through experimentation
• Convert research into production-grade software
• Build scalable AI infrastructure and services
• Design APIs, SDKs, and reusable AI platform components
• Optimize latency, cost, and reliability of AI systems
• Work on multi-agent coordination, memory management, AI evaluation
• Reinforcement learning from feedback
• Long-context reasoning
• Semantic retrieval
• Knowledge representation

Skills

Python

Machine Learning

Distributed Systems

Algorithms

Research

NLP

PyTorch

GPU Computing

Education

M.Tech or PhD in Computer Science/AI/ML/Robotics

Tools

Docker

Ray

JAX

vLLM

FastAPI

LangGraph

Job description

At Zycus, we believe the next generation of enterprise software will not be powered by workflows—it will be powered by intelligent AI agents.

We are building an enterprise-grade Agentic AI Platform capable of autonomous reasoning, planning, collaboration, memory, learning, and execution at scale. This platform will power procurement transformation for some of the world's largest organizations.

We're looking for exceptional engineers and researchers who want to solve difficult AI systems problems—not just integrate APIs.

If you enjoy reading research papers, building new algorithms, experimenting with frontier models, and turning research into production systems, we'd love to talk to you.

What You'll Build

You will help design and develop the core technology behind Zycus' Agentic AI Platform, including:

• Autonomous AI Agents
• Agent Memory Systems
• Planning & Reasoning Engines
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Long-term Memory Architectures
• Tool-use Frameworks
• Workflow Orchestration
• AI Safety & Guardrails
• AI Observability

Your work will directly influence how enterprise AI evolves over the next decade.

What You'll Do

Research

• Read and implement cutting-edge AI research
• Reproduce state-of-the-art techniques from leading conferences and journals
• Evaluate emerging foundation models and reasoning architectures
• Prototype new ideas rapidly and validate them through experimentation
• Convert research into production-grade software
• Build scalable AI infrastructure and services
• Design APIs, SDKs, and reusable AI platform components
• Optimize latency, cost, and reliability of AI systems

AI Systems

Work on problems such as:

• Multi-agent coordination
• Memory management
• AI evaluation
• Reinforcement learning from feedback
• Long-context reasoning
• Semantic retrieval
• Knowledge representation

Design rigorous experiments to improve:

• Accuracy
• Reliability
• Hallucination reduction
• Agent success rates
• Cost efficiency

Who We're Looking For

We're far more interested in exceptional problem-solving ability than years of experience with a specific framework.

You might be a great fit if you have:

• M.Tech or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics, Computational Linguistics, or a related discipline
• Outstanding software engineering skills in Python
• Strong foundations in algorithms, distributed systems, and software architecture
• Deep understanding of machine learning and modern AI techniques
• Curiosity to explore frontier AI research
• Ability to translate research ideas into working systems

Fresh PhDs and outstanding M.Tech graduates with exceptional research work are encouraged to apply.

Preferred Background

Experience in one or more of the following:

• Agentic AI
• NLP
• Search
• Information Retrieval
• Knowledge Graphs
• Distributed Systems
• Probabilistic Reasoning
• Planning Algorithms
• Multi-Agent Systems
• Robotics AI
• Cognitive Architectures

Technologies You May Work With

• Python
• PyTorch
• JAX
• vLLM
• Ray
• LangGraph
• DSPy
• Docker
• Vector Databases
• Graph Databases
• MCP
• FastAPI
• GPU Computing

Experience with these tools is valuable but not mandatory. Strong fundamentals matter more than familiarity with any specific framework.

What Makes Someone Exceptional

We would be excited if you have:

• Publications in NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, or similar conferences
• Open-source AI contributions
• Research internships
• Kaggle or AI competition achievements
• Experience building AI systems from scratch
• Strong mathematical foundations
• Curiosity to challenge existing approaches

Why Join Zycus?

• This is not another application engineering role.
• You will help invent the core AI platform that powers autonomous enterprise software.
• You'll work on frontier AI problems including reasoning, planning, memory, multi-agent systems, and autonomous decision-making—taking ideas from research papers to production.
• If your ambition is to build technology that defines the next generation of enterprise AI rather than simply consume existing APIs, this is the place to do it.