Senior AI Engineer

About the Position

Ciklum is looking for a Senior AI 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.

As a Senior AI Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow, who thrives at the intersection of cutting-edge AI technology and real-world business execution. In this role, you won't just write code in a silo-you will embed directly with client teams, map complex and manual workflows, and engineer autonomous AI-agent solutions to replace them. You will own the solution lifecycle end-to-end: discovery, architecture, build, deployment, and iteration. Working with minimal direction, you’ll serve as the technical authority who bridge the gap between complex agentic architectures and high-impact business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Client Embedding & Workflow Discovery: Partner directly with business stakeholders to break down manual enterprise processes, map complex decision-making steps, and translate them into robust agentic workflows.
• Agentic AI Engineering: Design, build, and deploy custom multi-agent systems, function-calling pipelines, RAG implementations, and reusable agent skills.
• End-to-End System Ownership: Develop production-ready backend services and integration layers to connect AI agents with core enterprise platforms (e.g., SharePoint, Jira, SAP, email).
• Cloud & Infrastructure Management: Package, host, and scale agent workloads using modern cloud architectures (AWS AgentCore, serverless, containerized environments) with automated CI/CD.
• Safety & Observability: Implement guardrails, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and agent evaluation loops to ensure reliability, mitigate hallucinations, and ensure enterprise compliance.

Requirements

• Agentic AI & LLMs Frameworks: Hands-on experience with Strands (primary framework), along with familiarity in LangGraph, CrewAI, or AutoGen.
• Agent Core Concepts: Deep understanding of tool use, function calling, streaming, context management, system prompts, and chain-of-thought methodologies.
• MCP & Agent Protocols: Proven ability to build/consume Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, alongside multi-agent coordination (A2A), task delegation, and result aggregation.
• RAG Pipelines: Hands-on build experience with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, pgvector, OpenSearch), chunking strategies, embeddings, and retrieval optimization.
• Skill Building & Guardrails: Design reusable skills for agent consumption; implement observability, hallucination mitigation, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints.
• Backend Development & Data:
  • Python Mastery: Strong experience with Python 3.10+ using async/await and strict type hinting.
  • APIs & Web Frameworks: Proficiency with FastAPI (or equivalent), REST API design, and modern auth flows (JWT / OAuth2).
  • Data Processing: Solid SQL skills (queries, filters, joins) and expertise in unstructured data processing (extracting/classifying data from PDFs, Excel, and legacy enterprise documents).
• Infrastructure & DevOps:
  • AWS & Hosting: Experience hosting/operating agent workloads using AWS AgentCore (understanding lifecycle, scaling, and invocation patterns) along with core services (EC2/ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3).
  • Containers & CI/CD: Docker proficiency and experience setting up GitHub Actions pipelines.
• Qualifications & Experience:
  • Software Engineering Track Record: Strong foundation in core software engineering principles and production-grade software development.
  • Production LLM Experience: At least one production project successfully delivered using LLM agents, skill-building architectures, or RAG pipelines.
  • End-to-End Ownership: Demonstrated ability to drive projects independently from zero to one with minimal guidance.
  • Client-Facing Communication: Comfortable interfacing with non-technical business partners-gathering requirements, explaining technical decisions, and presenting live solutions.

We Offer

• 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 the Company

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.

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