Applied AI Engineer (Agentic Systems)

Careers InitiateFirst; Hyderabad; In loco; INR 1.500.000 - 2.100.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Careers InitiateFirst in Hyderabad is seeking a seasoned software engineer with 5–8 years of hands-on experience to own production services and reliability. You will leverage Python and TypeScript for customer-facing tooling and integration, and apply retrieval/context engineering to complex systems.

The role requires strong ownership, ability to explain failures and fixes, and excellent technical communication with business stakeholders.

Competenze

• 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Python and at least one additional language; TypeScript is preferred for customer-facing work.
• Experience owning production services, incident response and reliability improvements.
• Knowledge of retrieval and context engineering, embeddings and hybrid search.
• Ability to document architecture and decisions for stakeholders.

Mansioni

• Own production services and incident response to improve reliability.
• Work on retrieval and context engineering, embeddings and hybrid search.
• Document architecture and decisions for stakeholders and communicate status.
• Ensure orchestration supports multi-step processes and handles failures gracefully.

Conoscenze

Python

TypeScript

Reliability engineering

Incident response

Hands-on software

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Descrizione del lavoro

Requirements

• Experience: 5-8 Years
• 5–8 years of professional experience, primarily in hands-on software engineering.Demonstrated ownership of production services, incident response and reliability improvement.
• Strong Python, with proficiency in at least one additional language. TypeScript is preferred for customer-facing applications and integration tooling.
• Demonstrable agentic work.Evidence of building and operating systems with tool use, multi-step orchestration and failure recovery for real users, including the ability to explain production failures and corrective changes.
• Working knowledge of retrieval and context engineering- embeddings, hybrid search, re‑ranking, context‑window economics and the ability to determine when retrieval is not the appropriate design.
• Evaluation discipline.Experience using offline and production evaluations as release gates, with automated scoring calibrated against human review.
• Framework judgement.Ability to choose between lightweight custom orchestration and a framework based on system complexity, maintainability and operational requirements.
• Business and technical communication.Ability to document architecture and decisions, communicate delivery status, and explain non-deterministic behaviour, risk and trade‑offs to accountable business and technology stakeholders

Qualification

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field