Applied AI Engineer (Agents)

Carrerlift; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Job summary

FAFF, a consumer-tech company building a human + AI personal assistant, is hiring an Applied AI Engineer in Bengaluru to build production-grade AI agents and agentic workflows for real-world use cases. The role requires deep engineering depth and ownership from requirements to deployment, with a six-day office-based work setup.

We seek candidates with 2–3 years of AI/ML engineering experience, strong Python skills, and hands-on experience shipping AI systems.

Qualifications

• 2–3 years AI/ML engineering experience.
• Product-based company experience required.
• Hands-on experience building and shipping AI/ML systems.
• Experience building AI agents and agentic workflows.
• Strong understanding of LLMs in production.
• Proficient in Python.
• Able to tackle ambiguous problems.
• Experience with RAG, embeddings, vector databases, evaluation.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy AI agents and agentic workflows for practical use cases.
• Own AI problems end to end from understanding the requirement through production deployment.
• Design reliable systems involving LLMs, tools, retrieval, memory and structured workflows.
• Experiment with different technical approaches and determine which one best solves the problem.
• Improve AI-system accuracy, reliability, latency and cost.
• Build evaluation and monitoring mechanisms for AI applications.
• Work with product and engineering teams to convert real-world requirements into AI solutions.
• Debug production failures and continuously improve deployed AI systems.

Skills

AI/ML engineering

Python

LLMs production

Agent workflows

RAG

Vector databases

Prompt engineering

Ambiguity handling

Tools

Tool-calling systems

Job description

About the role:

• FAFF is hiring an Applied AI Engineer to build production-grade AI agents in Bangalore.
• The role focuses on solving complex and ambiguous real-world problems with strong engineering depth.
• FAFF is a consumer-tech company building a human + AI personal assistant that helps users delegate everyday tasks.
• The position follows a 6-day work-from-office setup.

What you'll work on:

• Build and deploy AI agents and agentic workflows for practical use cases.
• Own AI problems end to end, from understanding the requirement through production deployment.
• Design reliable systems involving LLMs, tools, retrieval, memory and structured workflows.
• Experiment with different technical approaches and determine which one best solves the problem.
• Improve AI-system accuracy, reliability, latency and cost.
• Build evaluation and monitoring mechanisms for AI applications.
• Work with product and engineering teams to convert real-world requirements into AI solutions.
• Debug production failures and continuously improve deployed AI systems.

What we're looking for:

• Candidates should have 2–3 years of experience in AI/ML engineering or a closely related engineering role.
• Current or previous experience at a product-based company is required.
• Strong hands-on experience building and shipping AI/ML systems is expected.
• Applicants should have experience building AI agents, agentic workflows, tool-calling systems or similar applications.
• Strong understanding of LLMs and their practical use in production is required.
• Strong programming skills are expected, with Python preferred.
• Candidates should be able to take ambiguous problems, investigate them deeply and implement effective solutions.
• Experience with RAG, embeddings, vector databases, evaluation, prompt engineering or model integration is relevant.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging ability is required.
• Candidates with only surface-level exposure to GenAI or LLMs are not considered a fit.

Interview process:

• The process includes Introductory Screening, Technical Interview, AI Problem-Solving Round, Hiring Manager Round and Founder Round.
• ClanX is supporting FAFF as the recruitment partner for this AI Engineer opening.

Note: This is a 6-day work-from-office role in Bangalore. ClanX is the recruitment partner helping FAFF hire for this position.