Conversational AI Engineer

Adesso SE; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

adesso India is seeking a Conversational AI Engineer to design autonomous AI agents, prompts and guardrails, and integrate backend systems via REST APIs, MCP and GraphQL. You’ll craft multi-step workflows with robust, scalable solutions and apply SOLID, testing, and secure coding practices to deliver reliable AI-driven outcomes.

You will work with Cognigy.AI, AWS Bedrock, and other leading platforms to build agentic architectures, ensuring clear communication with stakeholders and delivering

Qualifications

• Degree in CS/engineering or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable bot and agent architectures across platforms.
• Build deterministic, GenAI and multi-step workflows.
• Integrate CRM/ERP/ticketing/CCaaS through REST, MCP and GraphQL.
• Work with PBX, SBC, TTS and ASR technologies.
• Troubleshoot conversational flows, APIs, LLM behaviour and infrastructure.
• Apply LLM concepts such as context windows, tokens, temperature and embeddings.
• Evaluate and improve prompts and use AI tools for orchestration.
• Follow secure coding practices and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Conversational AI

GenAI

Agentic workflows

Prompt design

LLM concepts

System prompts

REST APIs

GraphQL

gRPC

Docker

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field

Tools

Cognigy.AI

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Amazon Connect

Amazon Lex

Google CCAI

Kore.ai

Microsoft Bot Framework

Parloa

Job description

We are looking for a Conversational AI Engineer who combines hands-on platform expertise with a genuine passion for Generative AI. You will analyse client requirements, understand business problems, design autonomous AI agents and bot/agent architectures, create prompts, personas and guardrails, and integrate backend systems through REST APIs and MCP.
Design multi-step agentic workflows where AI can reason, plan and execute across systems. Focus on building robust and scalable solutions rather than only completing tickets.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable bot and agent architectures using Cognigy.AI, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon Connect, Amazon Lex, Google CCAI, Kore.ai, Microsoft Bot Framework or Parloa.
• Build deterministic, GenAI and multi-step workflows.
• Integrate CRM, ERP, ticketing, CCaaS and telephony systems through REST, MCP and GraphQL.
• Work with PBX, SBC, TTS and ASR technologies.
• Troubleshoot conversational flows, APIs, LLM behaviour and infrastructure.
• Apply LLM concepts such as context windows, tokens, temperature and embeddings.
• Evaluate and improve prompts.
• Use AI and Agentic Coding tools where appropriate.
• Apply Clean Code, SOLID principles, unit and integration testing.
• Work with Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift, CI/CD, cloud services and observability tools.
• Follow OWASP-aware secure coding practices

Requirements

• Work proactively with clients and globally distributed, cross-functional teams.
• Participate in code reviews and architecture reviews.
• Define success metrics, plans and roadmaps.
• Align project delivery with operations, including availability, backups, monitoring, logging and documentation.
• Deliver quickly with visible incremental progress.
• Avoid over-engineering and adapt to feedback and changing priorities.
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders while remaining engaged and accountable.
• Work independently and take ownership of deliverables.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• Consulting or IT-services experience with direct, daily client communication.
• Relevant certifications such as Cognigy, AWS AI/GenAI, IREB CPRE or ISTQB.
• Strong English communication skills at C1 level or higher.

Must-Have Skills (2+ Years)

• Hands-on experience with at least one Conversational AI platform: Cognigy.AI, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon Connect, Amazon Lex, Google CCAI, Kore.ai, Microsoft Bot Framework, Parloa
• Practical experience consuming REST APIs and integrating third-party systems.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, GraphQL or gRPC.
• Experience with Git, Jira and Confluence.

Should-Have Skills (1+ Year)

• Java or Python for data transformation, scripting or backend integration.
• AI-agent orchestration, including hybrid deterministic and GenAI flows.
• LLM concepts including context windows, tokens, embeddings, temperature and RAG.
• System prompts, personas, guardrails, MCP or similar tool-use/function-calling patterns.
• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP; AWS preferred.
• CI/CD using GitLab CI, Azure DevOps or similar tools.

Nice-to-Have Skills (0.5+ Year)

• AI/Agentic Coding tools such as Anthropic Claude, OpenAI Codex or GitHub Copilot.
• GDPR, EU AI Act and enterprise AI knowledge.
• RAG using Pinecone, Weaviate or pgvector.
• SSO technologies such as OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT or SAML.
• Cloud contact centre or voice AI experience with Amazon Connect or Genesys Cloud CX.
• CCaaS and telephony technologies such as PBX, SBC, TTS or ASR.
• Event streaming using Kafka, AWS SQS or AWS SNS.
• Kubernetes and container platforms such as EKS/ECS, AKS or GKE.
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Observability tools such as Datadog, Dynatrace or CloudWatch.

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