Lead AI Engineer

QLYS_IN Qualys Security TechServices Private Ltd.; Pune District; On-site; INR 500,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualys is seeking an experienced AI/GenAI engineer to design and scale enterprise-grade AI solutions. You will build backend services and APIs, craft RAG pipelines, and create intelligent workflows that automate business processes.

Join a team that integrates enterprise data and systems with modern AI tech, ensuring secure, scalable, and measurable outcomes across business units.

Qualifications

• 7–12+ years of software engineering/GenAI development experience.
• Proven production-grade AI/GenAI solutions delivery.
• Strong Python backend and API integration expertise.
• Experience with RAG, LLMs, prompt engineering, tool/agent calls.
• Ability to translate business problems into scalable AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy AI/GenAI apps and intelligent workflows.
• Build backend services, APIs, and orchestration using LLMs and data.
• Create AI-powered knowledge assistants and decision support tools.
• Ensure code quality, security, reliability, observability, governance.
• Define evaluation frameworks for AI quality, latency, and perf.
• Collaborate with business, IT, Security, Data, HR and Finance teams.
• Prototype rapidly and scale to secure, production deployments.
• Optimize AI solutions for performance, scale, and cost.

Skills

Python

Backend development

APIs

System integration

Workflow orchestration

LLMs

RAG

Prompt engineering

Observability

Education

BE/B.Tech/MCA

Tools

Vector databases

Embeddings

Semantic search

Job description

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world! Job Description Design, build, and scale enterprise-grade AI/GenAI solutions that automate business processes, enhance decision-making, and deliver measurable business outcomes. The role focuses on developing AI-powered applications, intelligent workflows, and integrations by combining enterprise systems, data, APIs, and modern AI technologies in a secure, scalable, and production-ready environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy AI/GenAI applications, RAG pipelines, and intelligent workflow automation
• Build backend services, APIs, integrations, and orchestration frameworks using LLMs, model APIs, and enterprise data.
• Develop AI-powered knowledge assistants, workflow automation, and decision support solutions.
• Leverage AI-assisted development while ensuring code quality, security, reliability, observability, and governance.
• Define evaluation frameworks to measure AI quality, accuracy, latency, and system performance.
• Collaborate with business, IT, Security, Data, HR, and Finance teams to identify and deliver high-value AI use cases.
• Prototype rapidly and scale solutions into secure, production-ready deployments.
• Optimize AI solutions for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost.
• Develop reusable AI components, frameworks, and best practices to accelerate enterprise adoption.

Required Qualifications

• 7–12+ years of experience in Software Engineering, AI/ML, or GenAI application development.
• Proven experience building and deploying production-grade AI/GenAI solutions.
• Strong expertise in Python, backend development, APIs, system integration, and workflow orchestration.
• Hands-on experience with RAG, LLMs, prompt engineering, tool/agent calling, AI evaluation, and observability.
• Experience integrating enterprise applications, data platforms, and services using APIs and event-driven architectures.
• Strong analytical, systems thinking, and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate ambiguous business problems into scalable AI solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, and advanced RAG architectures.
• Knowledge of SQL, data engineering, and data pipelines.
• Experience integrating AI into enterprise applications and business workflows.
• Exposure to intelligent agents, automation platforms, and AI governance frameworks.
• Experience building reusable AI frameworks, accelerators, or enterprise AI platforms.

Educational Qualification

BE/B.Tech/MCA, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field

About Qualys

Join our talent community and receive the latest Qualys news, content, and be first in line for new job opportunities. Join our Talent Community! Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and automate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings.