TL;DR

Principal Software Engineer (AI): Researching, architecting, and pioneering AI solutions to process and extract insights from millions of unstructured documents and multimedia files daily with an accent on large-scale distributed backend systems and AI/ML model lifecycle management. Focus on designing scalable AI services, solving real-world AI production challenges, and leading technical initiatives across engineering teams.

Location: Bengaluru, India (onsite)

Company

%hirify_global% delivers AI-driven market intelligence to empower smarter decision-making for over 6,000 enterprise customers globally, including a majority of the S&P 500.

What you will do

Spearhead AI innovation by researching and prototyping cutting-edge AI/ML solutions including LLMs and computer vision.
Architect and build scalable, cost-effective AI services and data pipelines for high-volume document processing.
Address practical AI production challenges such as latency, prompt engineering, and fault tolerance.
Provide technical mentorship and leadership across multiple engineering teams.

Requirements

Location: Must be based in Bengaluru, India for onsite work.
10+ years of software engineering experience building complex backend systems.
5+ years experience with backend frameworks like FastAPI, Django, or Spring Boot.
3+ years hands-on experience with AI/ML model lifecycle in cloud environments.
Strong expertise in large-scale distributed system design and observability.
Excellent communication and leadership skills to influence engineering direction.

Nice to have

Experience with DevOps and MLOps practices including CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.
Hands-on with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.