AI Engineer
Pune (Kharadi) | Full-Time | Permanent | Experience: 6+ Years (3+ Years in AI/ML) | Build the AI Foundation of a Fast-Growing Product Company
At 301io, we believe AI is not just a feature—it's the foundation of the products we build.
We are looking for an experienced AI Engineer who can own AI initiatives end-to-end, from selecting foundation models and designing agent architectures to deploying production-grade AI systems used by real customers.
This is a unique opportunity to become a founding member of our AI practice, influence technical strategy, and build intelligent products from the ground up. The role combines AI Engineering, Full-Stack Development, MLOps, Agentic AI, LLM Engineering, and Product Innovation.
What You'll Do ?
AI Strategy & Architecture
- Define AI architecture, tooling, frameworks, and engineering standards.
- Evaluate and integrate leading AI models including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and open-source LLMs.
- Design scalable AI systems that support experimentation and production deployment.
- Drive model selection, performance optimization, and AI governance.
AI Agents & Agentic Workflows
- Design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI agents and multi-agent systems.
- Build intelligent workflows using LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, and related frameworks.
- Implement advanced agentic patterns, tool usage, reasoning workflows, and orchestration systems.
- Monitor and continuously improve agent performance in production.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Build enterprise-grade RAG pipelines and knowledge systems.
- Work with vector databases including Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, and pgvector.
- Improve retrieval quality through evaluation frameworks, testing, and experimentation.
AI Evaluation & Reliability
- Develop automated evaluation pipelines and regression testing systems.
- Define AI quality metrics including accuracy, hallucination rate, latency, and task completion.
- Build production safeguards and evaluation-driven deployment workflows.
- Implement monitoring and observability for AI systems.
MLOps & AI Infrastructure
- Build scalable ML pipelines for training, deployment, and monitoring.
- Deploy models using vLLM, Triton, BentoML, TGI, Ray Serve, and related serving frameworks.
- Manage GPU workloads, Kubernetes orchestration, and cloud infrastructure.
- Partner with DevOps teams on CI/CD, autoscaling, and cost optimization.
Full-Stack AI Product Development
- Build APIs, backend services, and frontend integrations for AI-powered products.
- Deliver intelligent user experiences using modern frontend technologies.
- Own AI features from model development through customer-facing implementation.
Required Skills
AI & LLM Engineering
✔ OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini APIs
✔ LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI
✔ Prompt Engineering & Structured Outputs
✔ Agentic AI Systems
✔ RAG Architecture & Vector Databases
✔ LLM Evaluation Frameworks
✔ AI Safety & Guardrails
✔ Fine-Tuning (LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT, RLHF, DPO)
Software Engineering
✔ Python
✔ REST APIs / GraphQL
✔ React.js or Modern Frontend Frameworks
✔ SQL & NoSQL Databases
✔ Docker & Kubernetes
✔ AWS / Azure / GCP
✔ CI/CD & DevOps Practices
Experience Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience.
- 3+ years of hands-on AI/ML production experience.
- Proven experience building and deploying AI agents.
- Track record of shipping AI products from concept to production.
- Strong full-stack engineering background.
Nice to Have
⭐ Multimodal AI (Vision, Audio, Code Generation)
⭐ TensorRT, ONNX, MLIR
⭐ Knowledge Graphs
⭐ AI Planning Systems
⭐ Open-Source Contributions
⭐ Published Research
⭐ Edge AI Deployment Experience
Why Join 301io?
- Founding-level ownership of AI initiatives
- Direct collaboration with leadership and product teams
- Opportunity to build production AI products from scratch
- Exposure to cutting-edge AI technologies and frameworks
- High-growth startup environment with real impact
- Freedom to influence AI strategy and architecture
- Work on Agentic AI, LLMs, RAG, MLOps, and next-generation AI products
Ideal Candidate Profile
Candidates from the following backgrounds will be highly preferred:
- AI Product Companies
- Generative AI Startups
- SaaS Product Companies
- AI Consulting Firms
- Machine Learning Platforms
- Developer Tooling Companies
- Innovation Labs & R&D Teams
Apply Now
If you're excited about building AI systems that move beyond demos and into production, and want to shape the future of AI-powered products, we'd love to hear from you.
*Apply/Refer: https://forms.gle/yAAnJCCpHMbpuEW99
Pay: ₹2,000,000.00 - ₹3,000,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Paid sick time
- Paid time off
Application Question(s):
- On a scale of 1–10, how confident are you in independently designing and deploying a production-grade AI Agent platform using LLMs, RAG, vector databases, evaluation frameworks, and cloud infrastructure?
- Do you have at least 6 years of total software engineering experience?
- Do you have at least 3 years of hands-on experience deploying AI/ML models in production environments?
- Have you independently built and deployed AI-powered applications or AI agents into production?
- Are you comfortable working from Pune (Kharadi)?
- Is your notice period 30 days or less?
Work Location: In person