Senior AI Engineer – GenAI Startup (Chennai)

We’re building a next-generation GenAI product for the US market. Early-stage, well-funded, zero bureaucracy.

Founded by a proven serial entrepreneur, we’re looking for a Senior AI Engineer who wants to build, ship, and own AI systems in production.

20-40 L.P.A

If you like working close to the product, customers, and real problems — this role is for you.

What You’ll Build & Own

• Design and ship production-grade GenAI features end-to-end

• Build and optimize RAG pipelines using LLMs, embeddings, and vector databases

• Integrate LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source models) into backend systems

• Improve latency, cost, reliability, and evals for AI workflows

• Work directly with founders, product, and US stakeholders

• Write clean, scalable code — not POCs that die in notebooks

• Influence architecture, tooling, and AI best practices

What We’re Looking For

• 5–9 years of software engineering experience

• Strong hands-on experience with AI / ML / GenAI in production

• Solid understanding of LLMs, embeddings, RAG, prompt orchestration, Agentic AI

• Experience with vector DBs (Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, etc.)

• Strong backend skills (Python preferred; APIs, async systems, data pipelines)

• Cloud experience (AWS / GCP / Azure)

• Startup mindset — ownership, speed, and pragmatism

Why Join

• Build real GenAI systems used by US customers

• High ownership as a senior IC (no people management required)

• Work directly with decision-makers — no layers

• Exposure to cutting-edge AI stacks in real production environments

• Fast growth path to Staff / Principal AI Engineer