Lead Applied AI Engineer Location : Gurgaon
Function : Engineering (Applied AI)
Reports to : CTO
Team : 2-3 AI engineers
solid traditional ML)
Why this role
We’re building agentic AI for recruitment workflows—sourcing, screening, interview assistance, and offer orchestration. You’ll own LLM / agent design, retrieval, evaluation, safety, and targeted traditional ML models where they outperform or complement LLMs.
What you’ll do
plus experience with similar ecosystems like AutoGen / CrewAI is a plus).
Retrieval & context (RAG) : chunking, metadata, hybrid search, query rewriting, reranking, and context compression.
Traditional ML : design and ship supervised / unsupervised models for ranking, matching, dedup, scoring, and risk / quality signals.
Feature engineering, leakage control, CV strategy, imbalanced learning, and calibration.
Model families : Logistic / Linear, Tree ensembles, kNN, SVMs, clustering, basic time-series.
build small, high-signal datasets.
bias / fairness checks for ML.
Cost / perf optimization : model selection / routing, token budgeting, latency tuning, caching, semantic telemetry.
coordinate batch / real-time inference hooks with platform team.
Mentorship : guide 2–3 juniors on experiments, code quality, and research synthesis.
you won’t own K8s / IaC.
What you’ve done (must-haves)
8–10 years in software / AI with recent deep focus on LLMs / agentic systems plus delivered traditional ML projects.
solid stats / ML fundamentals (bias-variance, CV, A / B testing, power, drift).
Built multi-agent or tool-using systems with LangChain and / or LangGraph (or equivalent), including function / tool calling and planner / executor patterns.
Delivered RAG end-to-end with vector databases ( pgvector / FAISS / Pinecone / Weaviate ), hybrid retrieval, and cross-encoder re-ranking .
tuned via grid / Bayes / Optuna.
Set up LLM and ML evals (RAGAS / DeepEval / OpenAI Evals or custom), with clear task metrics and online experiments.
Implemented guardrails & safety and measurable quality gates for both LLM and ML features.
ship iteratively with evidence.
Nice to have
vector DBs (pgvector / FAISS / Pinecone / Weaviate).
PyTorch experience for small finetunes.
causal inference / upliftmodeling for experiments.
HRTech exposure (ATS / CRM, interview orchestration, assessments).
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