Senior Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Engineer

Ciklum is looking for a Senior Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Engineer to join our team full-time in India.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Senior Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.

We are seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to architect, build, and deploy end-to-end, LLM-powered agentic AI solutions for complex production use cases. In this role, you will lead the design and execution of autonomous multi-agent systems, high-accuracy Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, and advanced prompt engineering architectures.

You will bridge applied machine learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and robust backend engineering to move autonomous systems from experimental prototypes into reliable, observable, and enterprise-grade production environments.

Responsibilities: 

• Agentic AI & Multi-Agent Orchestration
• Autonomous Workflows: Architect, evaluate, and deploy multi-agent coordination frameworks using LangGraph, LangChain, or CrewAI to solve complex, non-deterministic business workflows
• Agent Capabilities: Design structured planning, self-correction/reflection loops, tool-calling mechanisms, memory management, and dynamic routing architectures
• Prompt Engineering & Alignment: Develop advanced prompt engineering strategies (e.g., Chain-of-Thought, ReAct, directional stimulus prompting, few-shot conditioning) ensuring low latency, structured JSON outputs, and guardrails against hallucination
• RAG & Information Retrieval Architecture
• Advanced RAG Pipelines: Design, benchmark, and optimize enterprise-grade RAG systems implementing semantic search, hybrid retrieval (dense + sparse keyword matching), re-ranking, contextual chunking, and query decomposition
• Vector Data Engineering: Configure, scale, and manage vector databases (e.g., Milvus, Pinecone, Qdrant, Chroma, PGVector, or AWS OpenSearch) for high-dimensional embedding retrieval
• NLP & Embeddings: Benchmark, fine-tune, or calibrate state-of-the-art embedding models, tokenizers, and domain-adapted text representation pipelines
• Productionization, MLOps & LLM Observability
• LLM Evaluation & Observability: Establish rigorous evaluation frameworks (groundedness, context relevance, faithfulness) and trace agent executions using platforms such as LangSmith, Langfuse, or TruLens
• System Design & API Integration: Collaborate on clean system design to serve agentic workflows via modern backend interfaces and microservices
• Continuous Improvement: Implement automated testing suites to evaluate model drift, prompt regression, and agent task completion reliability across model upgrades

Requirements:

• Core Experience: 5+ years of total software/machine learning engineering experience, with at least 2 years of focused, hands-on experience building and deploying Generative AI and LLM applications in production
• Programming & CS Foundations: Advanced proficiency in Python (async programming, data structures, profiling, and package ecosystems)
• Generative AI & NLP: Deep hands-on experience with modern LLM APIs, foundation model ecosystems, transformer architectures, and classical NLP techniques
• Agent Orchestration Frameworks: Proven production track record using LangGraph, LangChain, or CrewAI to build multi-step, tool-augmented, or stateful agent systems
• RAG & Vector Search: Strong working knowledge of indexing, embedding generation, chunking strategies, and vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Milvus, Qdrant, OpenSearch, PGVector)
• Prompt Engineering: Demonstrated expertise in production-grade prompt templates, few-shot prompting, output parsing, schema enforcement (Pydantic), and safety guardrails

Desirable:

• Backend & System Design: Experience building microservices and RESTful/streaming endpoints using FastAPI or modern async frameworks
• LLMOps & Tracing: Practical experience with evaluation and tracing suites like LangSmith, Langfuse, Arize Phoenix, or OpenTelemetry
• Cloud & DevOps: Familiarity with AWS services (e.g., Bedrock, SageMaker, ECS, Lambda, S3), containerization with Docker, and orchestration with Kubernetes
• Software Quality & CI/CD: Experience building automated CI/CD pipelines, static code analysis, and testing frameworks (pytest)
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, AI/ML, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field
• Opportunity to build cutting-edge agentic AI systems that drive measurable real-world outcomes
• Collaborative engineering culture focused on modern AI paradigms, autonomous agents, and production experimentation
• Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and dedicated support for continuous technical upskilling and AI certifications

What’s in it for you?

• Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
• Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
• Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
• Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
• Care: We’ve got you covered with company-paid medical insurance, mental health support, and financial & legal consultations

About us:

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.

India is a strategic innovation hub for Ciklum, with growing teams in Chennai and Pune leading advancements in EdgeTech, AR/VR, IoT, and beyond. Join us to collaborate on game-changing solutions and take your career to the next level.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!

Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.

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