Senior Applied AI Engineer
- In office
- Mumbai
Build and deploy real-world AI systems, train and fine-tune models, and own the complete journey from research to production impact.
Job description
Applied AI Engineer with 3+ years of experience in core machine learning, model training, fine-tuning, and production deployment, building scalable AI systems and LLM-powered applications.
Requirements
- 3+ years of overall experience as an AI Engineer
- Strong hands-on experience with fine-tuning AI/ML models for production use cases.
- Experience with LLM fine-tuning, including model selection, dataset preparation, training, evaluation, and optimization.
- Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, and scikit-learn.
- Experience deploying and maintaining fine-tuned models in production environments.
- Familiarity with techniques such as LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT, and parameter-efficient fine-tuning.
- Experience working with model evaluation, monitoring, and performance optimization.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud platforms.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and MLOps practices.
- Strong understanding of APIs and distributed system architecture.
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL and modern data infrastructure.
- Experience with RAG systems and vector databases is a strong plus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
Responsibilities
• Own end-to-end delivery of production AI and ML systems from experimentation to deployment. • Train, fine-tune, and optimize machine learning models, including LLMs and open-weight models. • Build and maintain training, data processing, and inference pipelines. • Improve model performance across accuracy, latency, reliability, and cost. • Implement MLOps best practices for deployment, monitoring, CI/CD, and automated retraining. • Develop evaluation frameworks, benchmark datasets, and quality checks for production models. • Design and maintain scalable APIs and services that expose AI capabilities. • Collaborate with Product, Backend, and Frontend teams to integrate AI into customer-facing workflows. • Monitor production systems and continuously improve model and infrastructure performance. • Research and evaluate emerging AI techniques, tools, and frameworks.
Interview process
- Recruiter Screening
- Hiring Manager Discussion
- Applied AI Technical Assessment
- Founder Round
- Final HR Discussion