Principal Engineer – AI

Epergne Solutions; Chennai District; On-site; INR 5,500,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Epergne Solutions in Bengaluru, India, seeks a Principal Engineer - AI Research to lead the architecture, design, and delivery of production-grade AI platforms and agentic AI systems. This hands-on leadership role focuses on scalable, secure, and high-performance infrastructure for Generative AI across on-premise and cloud environments.

You will mentor teams, drive MLOps, and translate cutting-edge AI research into enterprise-ready products, guiding architecture governance, testing frameworks,

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of experience in software engineering, AI platforms, machine learning infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Proven experience delivering large-scale production systems and AI platforms.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end architectures for agentic AI systems, Generative AI platforms, RAG pipelines, and AI inference workflows.
• Build scalable AI platforms supporting distributed training, model deployment, and enterprise integration.
• Optimise system performance, latency, throughput, GPU utilisation, and infrastructure costs.
• Lead debugging, production incident resolution, performance tuning, and reliability improvements.
• Develop reusable AI frameworks, SDKs, APIs, connectors, and CI/CD templates.
• Implement observability, monitoring, logging, tracing, and operational dashboards.
• Establish engineering standards, architecture governance, testing frameworks, and controlled release processes.
• Collaborate with research, product, data, and platform teams to translate AI research into production-ready systems.
• Mentor engineering teams and drive best practices in software engineering, MLOps, and AI platform development.

Skills

AI system architecture

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Generative AI

LLM deployment

MLOps

Python

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Performance optimisation

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in CS/AI/SE

Tools

Kubernetes

Containerisation

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

We are seeking a Principal Engineer ? AI Research to lead the architecture, design, and delivery of production-grade AI platforms and agentic AI systems. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on building scalable, secure, and high-performance AI infrastructure that enables the deployment of advanced Generative AI, multimodal AI, and autonomous AI solutions across on-premise and cloud environments.

Job Role:

- Principal Engineer ? AI

Job Location:

- Bengaluru, India

Experience:-

10-15 Years

Role Summary:-

We are seeking a Principal Engineer ? AI Research to lead the architecture, design, and delivery of production-grade AI platforms and agentic AI systems. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on building scalable, secure, and high-performance AI infrastructure that enables the deployment of advanced Generative AI, multimodal AI, and autonomous AI solutions across on-premise and cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities:-

• Design and implement end-to-end architectures for agentic AI systems, Generative AI platforms, RAG pipelines, and AI inference workflows.
• Build scalable AI platforms supporting distributed training, model deployment, and enterprise integration.
• Optimise system performance, latency, throughput, GPU utilisation, and infrastructure costs.
• Lead debugging, production incident resolution, performance tuning, and reliability improvements.
• Develop reusable AI frameworks, SDKs, APIs, connectors, and CI/CD templates.
• Implement observability, monitoring, logging, tracing, and operational dashboards.
• Establish engineering standards, architecture governance, testing frameworks, and controlled release processes.
• Collaborate with research, product, data, and platform teams to translate AI research into production-ready systems.
• Mentor engineering teams and drive best practices in software engineering, MLOps, and AI platform development.

Required Skills:-

• Strong expertise in AI system architecture, distributed systems, cloud platforms, and scalable backend engineering.
• Experience with Generative AI, LLM deployment, RAG systems, agentic AI frameworks, and AI orchestration platforms.
• Proficiency in Python and modern software engineering practices.
• Experience with MLOps/LLMOps, containerisation, Kubernetes, CI/CD, monitoring, and infrastructure automation.
• Knowledge of distributed training, GPU optimisation, vector databases, and real-time inference systems.
• Strong debugging, performance optimisation, and reliability engineering skills.
• Excellent technical leadership, collaboration, and mentoring abilities.

Qualifications & Experience:-

• Bachelor?s, Master?s, or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 10?15 years of experience in software engineering, AI platforms, machine learning infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale production systems and AI platforms.
• Experience leading technical architecture, engineering standards, and cross-functional delivery initiatives.

Preferred Attributes:-

• Hands-on principal-level engineering expertise.
• Strong understanding of security, governance, observability, and production operations.
• Experience building reusable engineering platforms and developer tooling.
• Ability to translate advanced AI research into reliable enterprise-grade products.