Ciklum is looking for a Senior AI Engineer to join our team full-time in India.
We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.
About the role:
As a Senior AI Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow, who thrives at the intersection of cutting‑edge AI technology and real-world business execution. In this role, you won't just write code in a silo—you will embed directly with client teams, map complex and manual workflows, and engineer autonomous AI-agent solutions to replace them.
You will own the solution lifecycle end-to-end: discovery, architecture, build, deployment, and iteration. Working with minimal direction, you’ll serve as the technical authority who bridge the gap between complex agentic architectures and high‑impact business outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Client Embedding & Workflow Discovery: Partner directly with business stakeholders to break down manual enterprise processes, map complex decision‑making steps, and translate them into robust agentic workflows
- Agentic AI Engineering: Design, build, and deploy custom multi‑agent systems, function‑calling pipelines, RAG implementations, and reusable agent skills
- End‑to‑End System Ownership: Develop production‑ready backend services and integration layers to connect AI agents with core enterprise platforms (e.g., SharePoint, Jira, SAP, email)
- Cloud & Infrastructure Management: Package, host, and scale agent workloads using modern cloud architectures (AWS AgentCore, serverless, containerized environments) with automated CI/CD
- Safety & Observability: Implement guardrails, human‑in‑the‑loop checkpoints, and agent evaluation loops to ensure reliability, mitigate hallucinations, and ensure enterprise compliance
Requirements:
- Agentic AI & LLMs
- Frameworks: Hands‑on experience with Strands (primary framework), along with familiarity in LangGraph, CrewAI, or AutoGen
- Agent Core Concepts: Deep understanding of tool use, function calling, streaming, context management, system prompts, and chain‑of‑thought methodologies
- MCP & Agent Protocols: Proven ability to build/consume Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, alongside multi‑agent coordination (A2A), task delegation, and result aggregation
- RAG Pipelines: Hands‑on build experience with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, pgvector, OpenSearch), chunking strategies, embeddings, and retrieval optimization
- Skill Building & Guardrails: Design reusable skills for agent consumption; implement observability, hallucination mitigation, and human‑in‑the‑loop checkpoints
- Backend Development & Data
- Python Mastery: Strong experience with Python 3.10+ using async/await and strict type hinting
- APIs & Web Frameworks: Proficiency with FastAPI (or equivalent), REST API design, and modern auth flows (JWT / OAuth2)
- Data Processing: Solid SQL skills (queries, filters, joins) and expertise in unstructured data processing (extracting/classifying data from PDFs, Excel, and legacy enterprise documents)
- Infrastructure & DevOps
- AWS & Hosting: Experience hosting/operating agent workloads using AWS AgentCore (understanding lifecycle, scaling, and invocation patterns) along with core services (EC2/ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3)
- Containers & CI/CD: Docker proficiency and experience setting up GitHub Actions pipelines
- Qualifications & Experience
- Software Engineering Track Record: Strong foundation in core software engineering principles and production‑grade software development
- Production LLM Experience: At least one production project successfully delivered using LLM agents, skill‑building architectures, or RAG pipelines
- End‑to‑End Ownership: Demonstrated ability to drive projects independently from zero to one with minimal guidance
- Client‑Facing Communication: Comfortable interfacing with non‑technical business partners—gathering requirements, explaining technical decisions, and presenting live solutions
What’s in it for you?
- Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open‑door environment
- Growth focus: Take on large‑scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
- Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company‑paid certifications
- Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands‑on experience with cutting‑edge technologies
- Care: We’ve got you covered with company‑paid medical insurance, mental health support, and financial & legal consultations
About us:
At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting‑edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.
India is a strategic innovation hub for Ciklum, with growing teams in Chennai and Pune leading advancements in EdgeTech, AR/VR, IoT, and beyond. Join us to collaborate on game‑changing solutions and take your career to the next level.
Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!