Senior Applied AI Engineer

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Senior Applied AI Engineer building production-ready agentic AI solutions for phData, a data and AI consultancy. Delivering RAG pipelines, multi-agent workflows, and enterprise integrations for measurable client outcomes.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and operationalize end-to-end agentic AI solutions, including RAG pipelines, multi-agent workflows, and human-in-the-loop steps, for enterprise clients
  • Translate solution designs and business requirements into clean, well-tested production-grade code
  • Build reliable, scalable, secure, observable, evaluated, and guarded production-grade agents
  • Deliver engagements on time, within scope, and with measurable business value
  • Contribute to reusable agentic accelerators and reference implementations
  • Help establish engineering patterns, tooling, and ways of working for the India delivery center
  • Collaborate with forward-deployed engineers, data engineers, platform/DevOps engineers, and business stakeholders
  • Ensure deliverable quality through code reviews, technical documentation, automated testing, and security and governance standards
  • Partner with practice and account leaders to expand engagements and standardize AI deployment approaches
  • Contribute to IP development, architectures, templates, playbooks, and colleague training
  • Represent phData professionally with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Requirements:

  • 4+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering, software engineering, or data engineering roles building and deploying AI/ML solutions to production
  • Recent hands-on experience with LLM-powered or agentic applications
  • Understanding of LLMs, agentic architectures, RAG, prompt design, context engineering, and tool/function calling
  • Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, multi-agent patterns, memory, planning, and protocols such as MCP
  • Experience designing evaluation, guardrail, and observability strategies for LLM and agent systems
  • Hands-on experience with modern programming languages such as Python, including API development
  • Deep expertise in cloud-native AI/ML platforms such as AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, Azure AI/ML, and Snowflake Cortex
  • Complete software development lifecycle experience
  • Demonstrated use of AI-assisted development tooling
  • Strong working knowledge of SQL, including complex and distributed query writing, debugging, and optimization
  • Experience delivering projects for external or internal clients in professional services, product, or consulting environments
  • Ability to break down complex problems into actionable steps, ideally in a fixed-bid capacity
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
  • Proven experience presenting solutions and working directly with clients
  • Ability to work effectively with distributed cross-functional teams across the US, LATAM, and India
  • Track record of ownership, managing multiple priorities, and delivering high-quality work with minimal supervision
  • Comfort working in client environments and adapting solutions to existing architectures and processes
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience preferred
  • Preferred: reusable accelerators, modular codebases, or multi-client products experience
  • Preferred: AI/ML industry experience in life sciences, retail, financial services, or manufacturing
  • Preferred: global or remote team experience
  • Preferred: open source, technical community, speaking, or technical writing contributions
  • Master’s or other advanced degree is a plus

Benefits:

  • Remote-First Workplace
  • Medical Insurance for Self & Family
  • Medical Insurance for Parents
  • Term Life & Personal Accident
  • Wellness Allowance
  • Broadband Reimbursement
  • Continuous learning and growth opportunities to enhance your skills and expertise
  • Paid certifications
  • Professional development allowance
  • Bonuses for creating for company-approved content
  • Challenging projects, mentorship, and structured development pathways
  • Supportive, high-performing global team
  • Transparency, autonomy, and continuous improvement