Principal Applied AI Engineer
- Zycus Infotech
- 6 - 11 years
- Pune
- 27 days ago
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Job Description
Role & responsibilities
- Person has to be hands-on and an individual contributor with leadership impact
- Design and implement agentic architectures: single- and multi-agent, hierarchical flows, and tool-rich execution.
- Build production agents for domain workflows (retrieval, reasoning, tool use, approvals, human-in-the-loop).
- Own context engineering: structuring prompts, memory, retrieval, grounding, and evaluation loops.
- Make agents scale, concurrency, state & persistence, streaming, evaluation/telemetry, and cost controls.
- Partner with product/domain teams to convert ambiguous problems into shipped agents with measurable outcomes.
Preferred candidate profile
- 715 years of hands-on experience in software engineering, with at least 3 years in applied AI, LLMs, or agentic system design.
- Proven experience in building and deploying enterprise AI applications ideally workflow, conversational, or decision agents.
- Strong proficiency in Python, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar frameworks for agentic orchestration.
- Deep understanding of LLMs, embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and multi-agent systems.
- Solid experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and MLOps tools for scalable AI deployment.
- Strong grasp of data engineering concepts, including vector stores (Pinecone, FAISS), document indexing, and contextual retrieval.
- Ability to lead through influence guiding technical decisions, mentoring peers, and driving innovation across teams.
Must Have:
- 7+ years total software engineering; strong fundamentals in Java or Python or JS/TS (any stack: Java stack, MEAN, or Python).
- Demonstrated track record of building and deploying agents (workflow/autonomous/chat) with tools & external systems.
- Comfort with agent frameworks/patterns (e.g., graph/workflow agents, crew-style collaboration), tooling protocols, and RAG-plus grounding.
- Deep prompt/context engineering skills; knows when to use structure, when to retrieve, and how to evaluate.
Why You Should Join Zycus
- Work on cutting-edge applications powered by AI-assisted development workflows.
- Collaborate with a forward-thinking engineering team that values innovation and continuous learning.
- Access to premium AI development tools to boost productivity and code quality.
- Competitive compensation, flexible work arrangements, and opportunities for career advancement.
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QARole Category: Software DevelopmentRole: Technical ArchitectEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: Zycus InfotechLocation(s): Pune+ View Contact
Keyskills: Artificial Intelligence Generative Ai Machine Learning
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