Staff Software Development Engineer

Fortinet; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortinet seeks a senior engineering leader to define the technical vision for its Data Platform GenAI components. You will architect scalable data pipelines and guide agent orchestration, RAG integration, and model configuration to enable cost-efficient AI deployments.

You will lead a team of engineers, set best practices, and collaborate with product and operations to ensure robust, developer-friendly AI infrastructure that scales with demand.

Qualifications

• Extensive software development experience with emphasis on Python.
• Strong background in data engineering, data cleaning and mapping.
• 4+ years in AI/ML engineering, GenAI or related roles.
• Proven technical leadership guiding complex design decisions.
• Experience with modern GenAI frameworks and libraries.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical vision, roadmap, and strategy for Fortinet's Data Platform GenAI components.
• Architect and implement scalable data pipelines and AI-enabled workflows.
• Guide design of platform capabilities like agent orchestration and RAG integration.
• Mentor engineers and drive engineering excellence and scalable developer experience.
• Collaborate across teams to adopt GenAI capabilities in high-impact workflows.

Skills

Python

Software architecture

AI/ML engineering

Team leadership

Data engineering

GenAI

LLM inference

Model fine-tuning

LangChain

Hugging Face

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

What You Will Do

• Define and drive the technical vision, roadmap, and strategy for Fortinet's Data Platform’s GenAI components, enabling scalable development and deployment of AI applications powered by LLMs and agentic workflows
• Architecture and implementation of robust scalable data pipelines
• Guide the design and development of platform capabilities such as agent orchestration, RAG integration, LLM model configuration, prompt tooling, and fine-tuning pipelines
• Provide expert advice and guidelines for product development and standardization
• Drive efforts around LLM inference optimization, including caching, prompt tuning, and latency improvements, ensuring efficient and cost-effective model usage across applications
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and operations teams to ensure effective adoption of GenAI capabilities in high-impact workflows
• Partner with stakeholders to build reusable AI agents that enhance productivity, automate reasoning tasks, and integrate securely with internal systems and tools
• Mentor new hires and fellow engineers, fostering growth in technical depth and platform mindset
• Establish best practices and processes that ensure engineering excellence, operational sustainability, and a seamless developer experience
• Develop high quality, secure, scalable enterprise-grade backend components based on technical requirements specifications and design artefacts within expected time and budget
• Follow standard practices to develop and maintain Product development along with AI systems
• Software development with consideration for compliance requirements
• Largely self directed work with improved development techniques, standards and procedure

We Are Looking For

• 15+ years exposure in Software development.
• 10+ years in core python development experience along with Data Engineering with data cleaning, enrichment and data mapping.
• 4+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering, GenAI, data science, or related roles.
• 4+ years of experience as a technical lead, guiding teams through complex design decisions and setting high benchmarks for code quality, performance, and scalability
• Proficiency in machine learning frameworks and libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Ollama, XGBoost, Hugging Face), vLLM, LM Studio, GPT4All
• Experience with modern GenAI frameworks and libraries (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face Transformers).
• Familiarity with best practices for responsible AI, including data privacy, bias mitigation, compliance and model monitoring.
• Proven experience in fine-tuning and customizing foundation models to improve task-specific performance and domain alignment
• Deep knowledge of LLM inference optimization techniques, including prompt tuning, caching, quantization, and latency reduction across different model families
• Strong programming skills in Python (must) and similar languages, with an emphasis on AI/ML systems development and platform engineering
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and influence product development through a combination of technical leadership and user-centered thinking
• Passion for operational excellence, automation, and delivering scalable, developer-friendly AI infrastructure
• Desired Experience: 15+ years in Software/Data Engineering and 3+ years in AI/ML space.

Working Conditions

This position requires working from the office full-time; remote work is not available.