Senior Principal AI Engineer

Cornerstone OnDemand; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Cornerstone OnDemand invites applications for Senior Principal AI Engineer based in Hyderabad, India. The role focuses on building AI agents, RAG systems, and scalable backend services. You will deploy AI applications using Docker/Kubernetes and major cloud platforms.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in software engineering, 3+ years with LLMs, and strong Java/Python skills, plus experience with LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex and vector databases.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years building AI/Generative AI applications with LLMs.
• 3+ years developing scalable backend software and distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in Java and Python and modern software practices.
• Experience with AI orchestration frameworks and RAG systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI agents and multi-agent systems.
• Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions for enterprise-scale apps.
• Develop intelligent workflows with planning, reasoning, memory management, and tool calling.
• Create scalable backend services and REST APIs with Python (FastAPI).
• Integrate LLMs with enterprise systems, vector databases, APIs, and external tools.
• Deploy AI solutions on Docker, Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Optimize latency, scalability, reliability, and cost.
• Build evaluation pipelines for retrieval quality and LLM performance.
• Implement semantic/hybrid search, embedding pipelines, and vector DBs.
• Establish observability, monitoring, logging, and tracing.

Skills

Java

Python

LLM frameworks

AI orchestration tools

REST APIs

Docker & Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Observability tools

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelors or Masters in CS/AI/ML

Tools

LangGraph

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Milvus

Pinecone

Weaviate

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

FAISS

ChromaDB

OpenAI GPT / Claude / Gemini / Llama / Mistral / Azure OpenAI

Job description

Senior Principal AI Engineer

Hyderabad, India

Posted on: 7/27/2026 - Application Deadline: 9/30/2026

This role is Office Based, Hyderabad Office

About Cornerstone:

Cornerstone powers the future-ready workforce with modern, AI-driven employment solutions. Our platform enables companies to develop, manage, and engage their talent unlocking growth and innovation across organizations of all sizes.

In this role you will..

• Design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI agents and multi-agent systems using modern LLM frameworks.
• Build and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions for enterprise-scale applications.
• Develop intelligent workflows involving planning, reasoning, memory management, tool calling, and function calling.
• Design and implement scalable backend services and REST APIs using Python frameworks such as FastAPI.
• Integrate LLMs with enterprise systems, vector databases, APIs, and external tools.
• Deploy AI applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Optimize AI systems for latency, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Build evaluation pipelines to measure retrieval quality, response relevance, hallucination rates, and overall LLM performance.
• Implement semantic search, hybrid search, reranking, embedding pipelines, and vector database integrations.
• Establish observability, monitoring, logging, and tracing for AI applications using industry-standard tools.
• Collaborate with product managers, software engineers, data scientists, and platform teams to deliver end-to-end AI solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote AI engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural excellence.
• Stay up to date with emerging advancements in LLMs, Agentic AI, RAG, and AI infrastructure.

You've got what it takes if you have...

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of overall software engineering experience.
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience building AI/Generative AI applications using Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Minimum 3 years of experience developing scalable backend software and distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in Java and Python and modern software engineering principles.
• Hands-on experience with AI orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.
• Experience designing and implementing production-grade RAG systems, including embedding models, semantic search, hybrid search, reranking, and vector databases.
• Experience with vector databases such as Milvus, Pinecone, Weaviate, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, FAISS, or ChromaDB.
• Experience integrating and deploying applications using LLMs such as OpenAI GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral, Amazon Nova, or Azure OpenAI.
• Strong experience building REST APIs using FastAPI or similar Python frameworks.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience deploying AI solutions on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git, and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience with AI evaluation, prompt engineering, observability, and monitoring tools such as LangSmith, Langfuse, MLflow, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, microservices, asynchronous programming, and distributed systems.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.

Our Culture:

Spark Greatness. Shatter Boundaries. Share Success. Are you ready? Because here, right now is where the future of work is happening. Where curious disruptors and change innovators like you are helping communities and customers enable everyone anywhere to learn, grow and advance. To be better tomorrow than they are today.

Who We Are:

Cornerstone powers the potential of organizations and their people to thrive in a changing world. Cornerstone Galaxy, the complete AI-powered workforce agility platform, meets organizations where they are. With Galaxy, organizations can identify skills gaps and development opportunities, retain and engage top talent, and provide multimodal learning experiences to meet the diverse needs of the modern workforce. More than 7,000 organizations and 100 million+ users in 180+ countries and in nearly 50 languages use Cornerstone Galaxy to build high-performing, future-ready organizations and people today.

Equal Employment Opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental commitment at Cornerstone OnDemand. We are proud to be an EOE Protected Veterans/Disability workplace and an affirmative action employer. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at [e-mail].