Lead AI Engineer - Agentic Engineering

name; India; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Blend360 is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to shape and build agentic AI systems that integrate with the SDLC and production workflows. You will drive engineering practices, tool use, and evaluation methodologies across teams and client projects.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, mentoring, and delivering reliable AI-powered software in production environments in an Indian setting.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering / AI engineering experience.
• Strong fundamentals and hands-on development of production-grade applications.
• Demonstrable experience building production-grade Agentic AI systems beyond basic chatbots.
• Experience designing evaluation frameworks for autonomous multi-agent systems.

Responsibilities

• Drive adoption of Agentic Engineering practices across the SDLC.
• Build AI-assisted workflows for requirements, code generation, testing and deployment.
• Design multi-agent architectures with planning, tool use and memory context.
• Establish guardrails, human-in-the-loop workflows and observable metrics.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with clients to deliver measurable value.

Skills

Software engineering

AI engineering

Hands-on development

Agentic AI

Production-grade systems

SDLC integration

Tools

Python

FastAPI

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

We are looking for a Lead AI Engineer to help shape and build the next generation of Agentic AI and AI-powered engineering systems at Blend360 . This is not a traditional GenAI or chatbot development role . We are looking for an experienced software/AI engineer who understands how to build production-grade agentic systems and, importantly, how to leverage Agentic Engineering as part of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) . You will work across AI engineering, software architecture, agent orchestration, LLM applications, developer productivity, and AI-assisted software development. You will help establish engineering practices around AI agents, context engineering, tool use, evaluations, autonomous task execution, and AI-augmented development workflows . The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals with hands‑on experience building and operating real-world Agentic AI systems.

What You'll Do

Agentic Engineering & AI-Augmented SDLC

• Drive the adoption of Agentic Engineering practices across the software development lifecycle , using AI agents to augment and automate engineering workflows.
• Leverage tools and approaches such as Claude Code, Claude Code Skills, PI, Hermes Agent , and comparable AI coding/engineering agents as part of day‑to‑day software development.
• Build AI‑assisted workflows covering requirements analysis, code generation, code understanding, refactoring, testing, debugging, documentation, code review, and deployment .
• Design agent workflows capable of understanding large codebases, managing context, using tools, executing multi‑step engineering tasks, and recovering from failures.
• Establish best practices around context management, context engineering, tool calling, agent orchestration, guardrails, human‑in‑the‑loop workflows, and autonomous task execution .
• Design and implement Evals to measure agent correctness, reliability, code quality, task completion, regression, and overall effectiveness.
• Continuously evaluate emerging agentic coding tools and techniques and identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity and software quality.

Production‑Grade Agentic AI Architect and develop multi‑agent and agentic systems capable of performing complex, multi‑step tasks in production environments.

• Design agent architectures involving planning, reasoning, tool use, memory/context, execution, reflection, validation, and error recovery .
• Build agents that integrate with APIs, databases, enterprise systems, developer tools, and other external services.
• Develop reliable tool‑use and MCP‑based integrations where appropriate.
• Build production‑grade LLM applications using frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, or equivalent orchestration frameworks .
• Implement RAG, semantic search, vector retrieval, structured outputs, and other LLM application patterns where required.
• Establish appropriate observability, evaluation, monitoring, security, and guardrails for agentic applications.

Software Engineering & Architecture

• Provide technical leadership across the design and development of AI‑powered software products and platforms.
• Apply strong software engineering principles including system design, modular architecture, API design, scalability, reliability, testing, CI/CD, and maintainability .
• Build production‑quality services and APIs using technologies such as Python, FastAPI, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms .
• Work closely with engineering, product, data, and client teams to translate complex business problems into scalable technical solutions.
• Conduct technical design reviews and provide mentorship to other AI/software engineers.
• Establish engineering standards and best practices for building AI and agentic applications.

Leadership & Innovation

• Act as a technical leader for Agentic AI initiatives and influence architecture and engineering decisions across teams.
• Mentor engineers on AI engineering, agentic architectures, software engineering practices, and AI‑assisted development .
• Stay current with rapidly evolving AI coding agents, agent frameworks, LLM capabilities, evaluation methodologies, and engineering practices.
• Prototype emerging technologies and transition successful approaches into reliable production solutions.
• Collaborate with clients and internal stakeholders to identify opportunities where Agentic AI can deliver measurable business and engineering value.

Must Have

• 6+ years of software engineering / AI engineering experience , with strong hands‑on development experience.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building production‑grade applications and services .
• Demonstrable experience building production‑grade Agentic AI systems , beyond simple chatbots or basic RAG applications.
• Strong understanding of Agentic Evaluation / Agent Evals , including designing evaluation frameworks for autonomous and multi‑agent systems.
• Experience creating evaluation datasets, test scenarios, metrics, automated regression tests, and quali