Senior/Lead AI Engineer

Aezion, Inc; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Aezion, Inc. is seeking an experienced AI engineering lead in Bengaluru to drive development of scalable AI modules and end-to-end pipelines. You will collaborate with the AI Solution Architect to translate architecture into concrete implementations and mentor junior engineers.

The role demands hands-on AI/ML delivery, experience with LLMs, RAG pipelines, and enterprise-grade AI solutions. You will ensure performance, security, and reliability across the stack.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of overall software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on Python programming and backend development experience.
• Practical experience developing AI/ML-based applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of AI modules and application components.
• Work with the AI Solution Architect to translate solution architecture into technical implementation.
• Mentor and guide AI engineering interns and junior developers.
• Establish development standards, coding practices, and AI engineering guidelines.
• Ensure quality, performance, scalability, security, and reliability of AI implementations.
• Drive technical problem-solving and resolve complex implementation challenges.
• Participate in technical design reviews, code reviews, testing, and deployment activities.
• Take ownership of assigned AI modules from design through delivery.

Skills

Python backend

AI/ML development

Generative AI

LLMs & Prompting

RAG pipelines

LangChain

Vector databases

Mentoring

Solution architecture

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

Hugging Face

VectorDBs

Job description

• 7+ years of overall software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on Python programming and backend development experience.
• Practical experience developing AI/ML-based applications.
• Good understanding of Generative AI, LLMs, SLMs, and Prompt Engineering.
• Experience building RAG-based applications and knowledge retrieval systems.
• Experience developing AI Agents and orchestrated workflows.
• Familiarity with LangChain, LangGraph, Hugging Face, or equivalent frameworks.
• Experience with vector databases, embeddings, and semantic search.
• Ability to design reusable, modular, and scalable AI components.
• Experience mentoring junior developers and reviewing technical implementations.
• Ability to collaborate with solution architects and translate architecture into implementation plans.

The individual will:

• Lead the development of AI modules and application components.
• Work with the AI Solution Architect to translate solution architecture into technical implementation.
• Mentor and guide AI engineering interns and junior developers.
• Establish development standards, coding practices, and AI engineering guidelines.
• Ensure quality, performance, scalability, security, and reliability of AI implementations.
• Drive technical problem-solving and resolve complex implementation challenges.
• Participate in technical design reviews, code reviews, testing, and deployment activities.
• Take ownership of assigned AI modules from design through delivery.
• Practical experience in developing AI applications, integrating LLMs, building RAG pipelines, implementing AI Agents, and delivering scalable AI-powered modules.

We are looking for professionals who combine strong engineering fundamentals, practical AI development experience, technical leadership, and a passion for building enterprise AI solutions.

The selected candidates will be responsible for leading a team of junior AI engineers and engineering interns while working closely with the AI Solution Architect to design, develop, and deliver enterprise-grade AI-powered solutions.

Interested candidates should have experience delivering working AI applications rather than limiting their exposure to AI research, experimentation, or prompt engineering alone.