Senior Applied AI Engineer

Konovo; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,200,000 - 6,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Konovo, a global healthcare intelligence company, is hiring a Senior Applied AI Engineer for its hybrid Bengaluru team. You will contribute to AI-native platform, design and deploy production-grade AI features, and partner with global teams to translate business needs into scalable solutions.

You will work on reliability, compliance, and performance, advance model efficiency, and build internal tooling to boost engineering productivity.

Qualifications

• Proactive thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• 5+ years of experience building and deploying AI/ML systems in production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with LLM integration, prompt engineering, model evaluation, and performance optimisation.
• Experience building AI systems where reliability, compliance, and uptime are business-critical.
• Proficiency in Python and experience with modern AI frameworks/libraries.
• Experience working in product-focused engineering teams.
• Ability to balance innovation with product stability, cost discipline, and measurable business impact.
• Comfort explaining AI trade-offs and feasibility to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working across time zones and collaborating with global teams.
• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy production-grade AI features within our platform.
• Improve model performance, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency in enterprise-scale environments.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable AI solutions.
• Build internal AI tooling to enhance engineering productivity and broader workflows.
• Ensure responsible AI aligned with data privacy, security, and compliance standards.

Skills

Proactive strategic thinking

5+ years AI/ML production

LLM integration

Model evaluation

Python proficiency

Cross-functional collaboration

Explain AI trade-offs

Global time-zone collaboration

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science/AI/ML

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Model orchestration frameworks

LLM tooling

Job description

Konovo is a global healthcare intelligence company on a mission to transform research through technology- enabling faster, better, connected insights.

Konovo provides healthcare organisations with access to over 2 million healthcare professionals and patients—the largest network of its kind globally. With a workforce of over 300 employees across 5 countries: India, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and the United States, we collaborate to support some of the most prominent names in healthcare. Our customers include over 300 global pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, research agencies, and consultancy firms.

As we transition from a service-oriented model to a product-driven platform, we are expanding our hybrid Bengaluru based team. We are looking for a Senior Applied AI Engineer to help advance the next chapter of Konovo's AI-native platform. You'll be joining the 5+ member AI Foundation team responsible for advancing our core AI platform. You'll be working with each of our product engineering teams to incorporate AI capabilities into each of the products they are responsible for.

AI is already embedded in our product and internal tooling. Your role will be to deepen, scale, and operationalise those capabilities across our platform, data systems, and engineering workflows with production reliability and enterprise discipline. You will partner with global engineering, data, and product teams to translate real business problems into production-ready AI solutions.

This is a hands-on role for someone who understands both the promise and limits of modern AI. You will design thoughtfully, build pragmatically, and ship responsibly. Your work will directly shape how our customers and employees experience AI at Konovo. You will operate in an environment where AI decisions impact enterprise customers globally and must meet high standards of reliability, compliance, and performance. AI is a strategic differentiator for Konovo. As a globally scaled healthcare intelligence company service hundreds of enterprise customers, AI at Konovo must accelerate innovation while protecting reliability, data integrity, and customer trust.

HowYou'LlMakeanImpact:

• Design, build, and deploy production-grade AI and LLM-powered features within our intelligent platform
• Improve model performance, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency in enterprise-scale production environments
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable AI solutions
• Build internal AI tooling that enhances engineering productivity and broader employee workflows
• Ensure responsible AI implementation aligned with data privacy, security, and compliance standards
• Design AI systems with strong guardrails around privacy, auditability, global regulatory requirements, and long-term maintainability
• Evaluate emerging AI capabilities rigorously, adopting what delivers measurable value while avoiding unnecessary complexity or hype

WhatWe'ReLookingFor:

• Aproactiveandstrategicthinkerwithstronganalyticalandproblem-solvingskills.
• 5+yearsofexperiencebuildinganddeployingAI/MLsystemsinproductionenvironments
• Stronghands-onexperiencewithLLMintegration,promptengineering,modelevaluation,andperformanceoptimisation
• ExperiencebuildingAIsystemswherereliability,compliance,anduptimearebusiness-critical
• ProficiencyinPythonandexperienceworkingwithmodernAIframeworksandlibraries
• Experienceworkinginproduct-focusedengineeringteams,notjustresearchenvironments
• Abilitytobalanceinnovationwithproductstability,costdiscipline,andmeasurablebusinessimpact
• ComfortexplainingAItrade-offsandfeasibilityclearlytobothtechnicalandnon-technicalstakeholders
• Experienceworkingacrosstimezonesandcollaboratingwithglobalteams
• Bachelor'sinComputerScience,ArtificialIntelligence,MachineLearning,orarelatedfield

BonusPointsForExperiencewith:

• Vectordatabases,retrieval-augmentedgeneration(RAG),ormodelorchestrationframeworks
• Databricks,Snowflake,ormodernlakehousearchitectures

WhyJoinKonovo?

• Be part of a mission-driven organisation that is empowering life science researchers and data scientists with the broadest ecosystem of healthcare audiences and an intelligent, AI-enabled platform - so insights aren't just collected, they're connected.
• Joinafast-growingglobalteamwithopportunitiesforprofessionalgrowthandadvancement.
• Enjoyacollaborativeandhybridworkenvironmentthatfostersinnovationandflexibility.
• Experienceaworkplacethatputsemployeesfirst,offeringaworkplacedesignedforgrowth,well-being,andbalance.
• Makeareal-worldimpactbyhelpinghealthcareorganisationsinnovatefaster.

This is just the beginning of what we can accomplish together. Join us at Konovo and help shape the future of healthcare technology!

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