Sr. Website Developer – AI Search Optimization (AEO)

Rhythm Innovations, Inc.; Khordha; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhythm Innovations, Inc. seeks a Senior Website Developer with expertise in AI Search Optimization (AEO) to lead development of AI-ready digital experiences. You will build and manage a high-performance website using WordPress and Elementor, focusing on discoverability and AI-ready content.

The role emphasizes structuring content for AI readability, implementing structured data, and advancing semantic HTML while collaborating with content teams to optimize for AI-driven search platforms.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of experience in web development / frontend engineering.
• Extensive experience with WordPress development (custom themes, plugins, performance optimization).
• Hands-on expertise with Elementor (custom widgets, templates, responsive design).
• Experience with React, Next.js, or similar frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with headless CMS platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of corporate websites optimized for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO).
• Design, develop, and maintain websites using WordPress and Elementor, ensuring performance and scalability.
• Customize themes, templates, and plugins to support advanced content structuring and AI discoverability.
• Structure content for AI readability and retrieval, including topic clusters and semantic content models.
• Implement structured data (JSON-LD, schema.org) to enhance machine readability.

Skills

Web development

Frontend engineering

WordPress

Elementor

React

Next.js

Headless CMS

AI readiness

Schema.org

Semantic HTML

Knowledge graphs

AI search

Tools

WordPress

Elementor

React

Next.js

Headless CMS

JSON-LD

Job description

Sr. Website Developer – AI Search Optimization (AEO)

Bhubaneswar, India | Posted on 04/02/2026

At Rhythm, our values form the foundation of our business. We are passionate about customer success, innovation, and our employees. They guide our actions, decisions, and interactions, ensuring that we consistently make a positive impact on the world around us.

Job Description

As we expand our digital footprint, we are investing in AI-firstdiscovery and search optimization (AEO)—ensuring our platforms and contentare accurately discovered, interpreted, and surfaced across AI-driven searchengines and assistants.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Website Developer with expertise in AISearch Optimization (AEO) to lead the development of AI-ready digitalexperiences. This role goes beyond traditional SEO—focusing on structuring,engineering, and optimizing web content so it can be accurately interpreted andsurfaced by AI-driven systems.

Inaddition, you will play a key role in building and managing a high-performance websiteusing WordPress and Elementor, ensuring flexibility, scalability, and rapidcontent deployment aligned with AEO best practices.

You will ensure our digital presence is discoverable, interpretable,and prioritized in AI-generated responses.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development of corporate websites optimized for AnswerEngine Optimization (AEO).
  


• Design,develop, and maintain websites using WordPress and Elementor, ensuringperformance, scalability, and ease of content updates.
  


• Customize themes, templates, and plugins to support advanced contentstructuring and AI discoverability.
  


• Structure content for AI readability and retrieval,including:
  


• Topic clusters and semantic content models
  


• Implement structured data (JSON-LD, schema.org) to enhancemachine readability.
  


• Apply semantic HTML and content hierarchy best practices.
  


• Collaborate with content and marketing teams to identify high-valuequeries and AI search patterns.
  


• Monitor how AI platforms (ChatGPT, Google SGE, Perplexity, etc.)surface content and optimize accordingly.
  


• Continuously test and refine content structure, layout, and copy to improve AI answer accuracy.
  


• Optimize knowledge bases, product pages, and corporate content for NLP and entity recognition.
  


• Drive implementation of headless CMS / API-driven contentarchitectures.
  

Requirements

Required Skills & Experience

Core Development

• 8–10 years of experience in web development / frontendengineering.
  


• Extensiveexperience with WordPress development (custom themes, plugins, performanceoptimization).
  


• Hands-on expertise with Elementor (customwidgets, templates, responsive design).
  


• Experience with React, Next.js, or similar frameworks.
  


• Hands-on experience with headless CMS platforms.
  

AEO / AI Search

• Strong understanding of AI search behavior and Answer EngineOptimization (AEO).
  


• Experience with:
  


• Knowledge graphs and semantic SEO
  


• Content optimization for AI retrieval
  


• Familiarity with AI assistants and conversational search.
  

Analytics & Optimization

• Experience with Google Search Console, GA4, or similar tools.
  


• Ability to measure and improve AI-driven visibility.
  

Good to Have

• Technical SEO (crawlability, indexing, site architecture)
  


• Experience optimizing WordPress performance (Core Web Vitals,caching, CDN integration)
  


• Exposure to API-first / microservices architectures
  


• Basic understanding of LLMs, RAG, or embeddings