Applied AI Engineer

Menlo Ventures; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,100,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Prodigal in Bengaluru is seeking an AI Engineer to join the proAgent team and build autonomous voice agents for live financial conversations. You'll own features from day one in a hands-on role, coding, integrating speech models, and debugging real-time issues.

The role emphasizes fast iteration, ownership, and collaboration with a small, high-agency team, with opportunities to shape the future of agentic AI in fintech.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of hands-on engineering experience with ML/AI in production.
• Solid Python fundamentals and debugging production issues.
• Experience with LLMs: prompt engineering or API integrations.
• High bias for action and ability to ship features quickly.
• Familiarity with TypeScript is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain components of the agentic runtime for multi-turn financial conversations.
• Implement context management across long dialogues and business rules.
• Write primitives balancing conversational fluidity with structured reasoning.
• Develop real-time voice pipeline with sub-1s latency for transcription, reasoning, synthesis.
• Tune VAD and turn-taking for natural conversations.
• Evaluate and integrate speech models (STT, TTS) and debug streaming audio/WebRTC issues.
• Write prompts, orchestration flows, and model routing logic; contribute to evaluation framework.

Skills

Engineering experience

Python

LLMs

TypeScript

Proactiveness

Curiosity

Job description

At Prodigal, we are building AI Agents for loan servicing and collections. Founded in 2018 by IITB alumni, our journey began when our founders Shantanu and Sangram faced the antiquated the $13B+ lending/collections industry was mostly using pen and paper and decided to build the first real intelligence layer for debt recovery.

Today, we stand at the forefront of a seismic shift in the industry, building Agentic AI applications for loan servicing and collections. Powered by our cutting-edge platform, Prodigal’s Intelligence Engine (PIE), we’re creating the next-generation agentic workforce - one that empowers companies to achieve unprecedented levels of operational excellence and intelligence.

With over 100+ enterprise customers across North America and backing from Y Combinator, Accel and Menlo Ventures, we are the fastest growing AI company in consumer finance.

About the Role

We're looking for an AI Engineer to join the proAgent team and work on the systems that power our autonomous voice agents in live financial conversations. You'll work alongside a small, high-agency team where you will have real ownership over features and components from day one.

This is a hands-on engineering role. You'll be deep in the code - building agent logic, integrating speech models, tuning prompts, and debugging gnarly real-time issues. You don't need to have done all of this before, but you need to be the kind of engineer who figures things out fast, takes feedback well, and ships.

What You'll Do (TL;DR version)

Agent Loop & Reasoning

• Build and maintain components of the agentic runtime that powers multi-turn financial conversations - covering payment negotiations, compliance guardrails, and objection handling
• Implement context management logic that tracks consumer state, conversation history, and business rules across long, branching dialogues
• Write and iterate on primitives that balance conversational fluidity with structured reasoning - the agent needs to feel human while making verifiable decisions

Voice AI Systems

• Work on our real-time voice pipeline with a target of sub-1s latency across transcription, reasoning, and synthesis
• Contribute to VAD tuning and turn-taking logic that makes conversations feel natural
• Help evaluate and integrate speech models (STT, TTS, speech-to-speech) - we currently work with ElevenLabs and Cartesia for TTS, and Deepgram for STT, and are always exploring what's next
• Debug streaming audio and WebRTC issues in production

LLM Infrastructure

• Write and refine prompts, implement orchestration flows, and contribute to model routing logicBuild components of our evaluation framework - helping measure agent quality across conversation quality, empathy, and compliance adherence
• Stay curious about new models and tools - flag opportunities and contribute to build-vs-integrate discussions

What You Bring

• 2 – 5 years of hands-on engineering experience, with good exposure to building or working with ML or AI systems in production.
• Solid Python fundamentals - you are comfortable writing clean, maintainable code and debugging production issues.
• Some experience working with LLMs: prompt engineering, API integrations, or building simple pipelines or agents.
• High bias for action - you don't wait to be told exactly what to do, and you push yourself to ship rather than over-engineer.
• Strong fundamentals in Python; familiarity with TypeScript is a plus.
• Eager to learn in a fast-moving environment, take ownership of your work, and ask good questions.

Even Better

• Exposure to voice AI: speech recognition, synthesis, or telephony systems - even if only through personal projects or coursework
• Any background or interest in fintech, lending, or collections
• You've tinkered with Twilio, LiveKit, ElevenLabs, or similar real-time infrastructure
• You've built a small agentic system - even a side project - that combines LLM reasoning with structured actions
• Familiarity with streaming protocols, WebRTC, or low-latency system design

Why This Role

• Real ownership from day one: The Applied AI team behind proAgent is small in size, high in talent density. You'll own components, ship features, and see your work in live consumer conversations within weeks.
• Frontier work: voice AI that reasons, decides, and acts is one of the hardest problems in applied AI. You'll be learning by doing on problems most engineers never touch.
• Strong mentorship: you'll work directly with senior engineers and the AI Lead who will invest in your growth - this is a place to level up fast.
• High leverage early career: the decisions you make and the code you write will impact millions of financial conversations. Rare for an early-career role.

To learn more about us - please visit the following:

Our Story - https://www.prodigaltech.com/our-story

What shapes our thinking - https://link.prodigaltech.com/our-thesis

Our website - https://www.prodigaltech.com/