Sr. AI Engineer

BMC Software; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,200,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

BMC Software seeks a senior AI Engineer to build a next‑generation Agentic AI platform from 0–1. You will design, code, and ship production‑grade AI capabilities used by external B2B customers, collaborating with senior leadership to drive reliability, cost efficiency, and customer impact.

You will own agent frameworks, multi‑agent workflows, and production deployments across cloud platforms, with a focus on deterministic, observable, and scalable solutions for enterprise environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development with B2B product shipping experience.
• Strong Python foundation and production systems design.
• Hands‑on experience deploying AI-powered products in production.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve agentic AI systems for production use.
• Take AI-driven features from concept to production in a 0–1 environment.
• Write production‑quality Python across AI pipelines, services, and orchestration.
• Implement prompt engineering, tool use, memory, evaluation, and guardrails as first‑class concerns.
• Design agent frameworks balancing autonomy, determinism, observability, and safety.
• Make architectural trade‑offs on latency, cost, accuracy, and scalability.
• Integrate and operate LLMs including model selection and inference optimization.
• Address real‑world issues like hallucinations, drift, and failure modes.

Skills

Python

Production systems

LLMs

LangGraph

LangChain

Vector databases

Tools

AWS SageMaker

Vertex AI

Kubernetes

Pinecone

FAISS

Job description

Description and Requirements

Hybrid

Description and Requirements

At BMC trust is not just a word - it's a way of life!

Hybrid

BMC empowers nearly 80% of the Forbes Global 100 to accelerate business value, faster than humanly possible. Our industry‑leading portfolio unlocks human and machine potential to drive business growth, innovation, and sustainable success. BMC does this in a simple and optimized way by connecting people, systems, and data that power the world’s largest organizations so they can seize a competitive advantage.

We are looking for a AI Engineer to build our next‑generation Agentic AI platform from 0–1. This is a hands‑on, delivery‑driven role for a senior engineer who has shipped AI‑powered products into real enterprise environments, understands the trade‑offs of production AI systems, and takes full ownership of outcomes — not just models or demos.

You will work alongside our VP of Engineering, VP of AI and product leadership to define and build the core AI systems of the platform. You will spend most of your time designing, coding, and shipping production‑grade AI capabilities used by external B2B customers. Success is measured by reliability, controllability, cost‑efficiency, and customer impact — not novelty.

Here is how, through this exciting role, YOU will contribute to BMC's and your own success:

• Design, build, and evolve agentic AI systems that reason, plan, execute, and adapt in production environments.
• Take AI‑driven features from concept to production in a true 0–1 product environment.
• Write and review high‑quality production code (Python‑first) across AI pipelines, inference services, orchestration layers, and supporting systems.
• Implement prompt engineering, tool use, memory, evaluation, and guardrails as first‑class engineering concerns, not experiments.
• Design agent frameworks that balance autonomy with determinism, observability, and safety.
• Make pragmatic architectural trade‑offs across latency, cost, accuracy, scalability, and maintainability.
• Integrate and operate LLMs (commercial and/or open‑source) including model selection, fine‑tuning strategies, embeddings, retrieval (RAG), and inference optimization.
• Address real‑world issues: hallucinations, drift, prompt regressions, failure modes, and customer trust.
• Deploy and operate AI services across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), including secure enterprise integrations and customer‑specific deployments.
• Design scalable inference and orchestration architectures using containers, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Ensure the platform is shippable, debuggable, and supportable — not fragile or research‑grade.
• Act with founder‑level ownership: identify gaps, propose solutions, and move forward without waiting for perfect requirements.

To ensure you’re set up for success, you will bring the following skillset & experience:

• 10+ years of professional software development experience, with significant time shipping B2B products used by external customers.
• Strong software engineering foundation with expert‑level Python and experience designing production systems.
• Proven experience building, deploying, and operating AI‑powered products in production — not just prototypes or research.
• Hands‑on experience with LLMs and GenAI systems in real applications (e.g., agents, copilots, automation, decision systems).
• LangGraph and/or LangChain
• LlamaIndex
• Vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, Milvus)
• Prompt engineering as a managed, versioned, testable artifact
• Experience deploying and operating LLMs using: -AWS SageMaker, Vertex AI, or equivalent managed platforms. Direct API integrations (OpenAI, Anthropic)
• Experience designing multi‑agent systems or complex agent workflows.
• Experience commercializing AI features under enterprise constraints (security, compliance, uptime).
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and making decisions with incomplete information.

Deep understanding of at least several of the following:

• Agent frameworks and orchestration Prompt engineering and tool‑use patterns
• RAG architectures and vector search
• Model evaluation, feedback loops, and monitoring
• Safety, guardrails, and enterprise controls

Whilst these are nice to have, our team can help you develop in the following skills:

• Contributions to open‑source GenAI tooling or internal frameworks used at scale
• Experience with Supervised fine‑tuning, Parameter‑efficient tuning methods (LoRA, QLoRA), reinforcement learning (RLHF) and preference optimization (PPO, DPO, GRPO).
• Experience deploying LLMs at scale (Kubernetes, model serving, GPU optimization).

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Our commitment to you!

BMC’s culture is built around its people. We have 6000+ brilliant minds working together across the globe. You won’t be known just by your employee number, but for your true authentic self. BMC lets you be YOU!

BMC is committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of race, age, sex, creed, color, religion, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, national origin, disability, marital status, pregnancy, disabled veteran or status as a protected veteran. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, visit the accommodation request page.

BMC Software maintains a strict policy of not requesting any form of payment in exchange for employment opportunities, upholding a fair and ethical hiring process.

At BMC we believe in pay transparency and have set the midpoint of the salary band for this role at 4,700,000 INR. Actual salaries depend on a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training, licensure, and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

The salary listed is just one component of BMC's employee compensation package. Other rewards may include a variable plan and country specific benefits.

We are committed to ensuring that our employees are paid fairly and equitably, and that we are transparent about our compensation practices.

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