Senior AI Engineer

Onit, Inc.

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Pune, Maharashtra on site Until 8/21/2026 First posted March 27, 2026 Last posted March 27, 2026
Job description
We’re seeking a Senior AI Engineer to design and ship production-grade agentic AI systems that automate complex workflows end-to-end. This is a hands-on, senior role with significant technical ownership. You’ll work closely with the Chief Architect, product, engineering, and domain experts to translate ambiguous, high-impact problems into reliable AI-driven user experiences.
What success looks like:
Ship AI capabilities that measurably improve user outcomes (quality, time saved, throughput)
Build systems that are reliable by design: evals, observability, safety, and cost/latency controls from day one
Iterate quickly using a tight loop of instrument → evaluate → improve → deploy 

What You’ll Do

    Agentic AI Feature & Workflow Development
  • Build and integrate AI-driven features using LLM APIs (OpenAI / Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini on Vertex AI)
  • Design and implement tool-using agents (structured function calling, schema validation, retries, fallbacks)
  • Build multi-agent workflows when appropriate (e.g., planner/worker, reviewer/critic, specialist routing) and know when a simpler architecture is better
  • Create agentic workflows such as document understanding, extraction, reasoning over evidence, task automation, and multi-step decision support
  • Own context engineering end-to-end:
  • dynamic context assembly (retrieval + state + tool outputs)
  • context budgeting and compression/summarization
  • grounding strategies to reduce hallucinations and improve consistency
  • Implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and search workflows using off-the-shelf vector stores and embedding services 
    • Evaluation, Quality & Iteration (Core)
  • Establish evaluation frameworks for accuracy, reliability, and output quality
  • Build task-specific eval suites: golden datasets, adversarial cases, regression tests, and rubric-based scoring
  • Set up automated evaluation pipelines and release gates (CI/CD-friendly) tied to prompt/model/version changes
  • Define and monitor online metrics (e.g., task success rate, human override rate, safety flags, latency, cost) and run experiments/A-B tests where appropriate
  • Use LLM-as-judge responsibly: calibrate, validate, and pair with human labels when needed 
    • Engineering, Integration & Observability
  • Develop scalable backend services and APIs that incorporate AI functionality
  • Integrate AI pipelines into existing cloud, microservices, and event-driven architectures
  • Implement observability and analytics for all AI features (tracing, evaluations, prompt versioning, cost tracking) Example tooling: Langfuse (and/or OpenTelemetry-compatible stacks)
  • Ensure reliability, uptime, performance, and security of AI services
  • Build internal tooling for evaluation, testing, prompt/version management, and safe deployment
    • Product & Collaboration
  • Partner with product managers, designers, the Chief Architect, and domain SMEs to shape AI-first solutions
  • Rapidly prototype concepts and iterate based on user feedback and measurable eval results
  • Translate business problems into well-structured AI workflows without requiring ML model training
  • Document system behavior, known failure modes, and operational playbooks 
    • Governance & Safety
  • Implement guardrails, checks, and fallback logic for safe and predictable AI behavior
  • Help define and follow compliance, privacy, and responsible AI guidelines
  • Design for safe tool execution (bounded actions, permissions, escalation paths, human-in the-loop review 

What You Bring

    Core Strengths (Required)
  • Strong software engineering background (Python preferred) and experience shipping backend services
  • Deep hands-on experience building agentic LLM systems from first principles: agent loops, tool interfaces, planning/replanning, memory/state, and failure handling
  • Strong context engineering ability: retrieval strategies, routing, grounding, context budgeting, and long-context tradeoffs
  • Strong evaluation discipline: golden datasets, regression gating, automated eval pipelines, and online monitoring
  • Practical experience with LLM APIs (OpenAI/Azure OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini) and AI orchestration frameworks
  • Excellent debugging, systems thinking, and problem decomposition skills
  • Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with high ownership 
    • Signals We Value
  • You’ve shipped an LLM/agent system in production and can clearly explain:
  • the failure modes you discovered
  • the evals you built to catch regressions
  • how you improved cost/latency while increasing quality
  • how you monitored and iterated safely over time 
  • You keep up with industry developments (model releases, frameworks, best practices) and can translate them into pragmatic improvement 
    • Nice to Have
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP), microservices, and event-driven systems
  • Experience with observability stacks (OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Honeycomb) and AI-specific tooling (e.g., Langfuse, Braintrust, HumanLoop, W&B Weave)
  • Experience with workflow orchestration for long-running jobs (Temporal, Celery, Airflow)
  • Experience building enterprise AI features (permissions, auditability, compliance constraints)
  • Experience with safety/policy layers (PII handling, prompt injection defenses, sandboxed tool execution) 

Why Join Us

  • Build core AI capabilities that directly impact users and product strategy
  • Work on cutting-edge, real-world agentic systems—focused on applied engineering (no model training required)
  • High ownership, fast iteration cycles, and strong cross-functional collaboration
  • Competitive compensation and opportunities for rapid advancement 

What Your First 90 Days Could Look Like

    Ship one production agent workflow end-to-end with:
  • tracing + observability
  • an offline eval suite with regression gates
  • cost/latency targets and monitoring
  • documented failure modes and fallback path 
About this role

Summary

Design and ship production-grade agentic AI systems and workflows with high ownership.

Job title

Senior AI Engineer

Experience level

senior level

Industry

technology

Location requirements

Pune, Maharashtra; remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

Pythonagent systemsLLM APIsevaluationcontext engineeringsystems thinking

Preferred skills

AWSGCPobservability stacksworkflow orchestrationenterprise AI

Specializations

agentic AILLM APIscontext engineeringevaluationsystem integration
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

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