Lead/Staff Engineer - Applied AI

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Lead/Staff Engineer - Applied AI based in India.

• This is a high-autonomy engineering role focused on building LLM-powered AI agents and next-generation Generative AI systems at significant scale.
• You will lead the development of intelligent systems that power customer-facing automation, personalized communication, scheduling, and operational workflows.
• The role sits at the intersection of applied AI, agent architecture, data science, and production engineering.
• You will take ambitious ideas from research and experimentation through deployment, monitoring, and continuous iteration.
• The position offers the opportunity to work with large-scale data, retrieval systems, foundation models, and sophisticated agent architectures.
• You will collaborate closely with product, backend, infrastructure, and engineering teams to create reusable and scalable AI capabilities.
• As a technical leader, you will also influence AI strategy, establish best practices, and mentor engineers in a fast-moving, globally distributed environment.