AI Applications Engineer

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AI Engineer

Join us in shaping the future of AI-powered business transformation. Five9 is committed to staying ahead in the rapidly evolving AI landscape, driving innovation, and leveraging the most advanced tools to deliver a lasting competitive advantage.

To accelerate our AI implementation efforts, we are seeking a highly skilled and adaptable AI Engineer to join our Center of Excellence team within Corporate IT. This role focuses on the execution and development of AI solutions designed by our AI Solutions Architects, requiring strong technical implementation skills and a passion for bringing innovative AI concepts to life. You will be responsible for building, deploying, and maintaining AI-powered solutions that transform our business operations, enhance employee productivity, and create sustainable competitive advantages.

The ideal candidate will be a hands-on technologist with deep expertise in AI toolsets, agentic orchestration platforms, and modern development environments. We're looking for someone who can rapidly adapt to new technologies, understand their AI capabilities, and effectively implement solutions that drive business value. The position is based in Chennai, India.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with AI Solutions Architects to translate high-level designs into technical implementations, providing feedback on feasibility and suggesting improvements.
• Build and implement AI solutions based on architectural designs and specifications provided by AI Solutions Architects, ensuring robust, scalable, and maintainable code.
• Develop and evolve AI-powered tools and platforms including Abacus.ai, Workato iPaaS solutions for agentic orchestration, and organization-wide AI development tools such as Cursor.
• Create intelligent automation workflows that leverage natural language understanding and data signals to trigger agentic actions and business processes.
• Integrate AI capabilities with existing business applications, collaboration platforms (such as Slack), data sources, and IT infrastructure to create seamless end-to-end solutions.
• Design and implement data connectivity solutions that enable AI systems to access, process, and act upon various data sources for intelligent decision-making.
• Develop sophisticated prompting strategies and conversation flows that effectively translate business requirements into actionable AI responses and automated workflows.
• Build and maintain AI-powered intelligent agents that can orchestrate complex business processes and provide autonomous problem-solving capabilities.
• Optimize AI solution performance through efficient coding practices, resource management, and continuous monitoring of deployed systems.
• Rapidly prototype and iterate on AI implementations, conducting testing and validation to ensure solutions meet business requirements and performance standards.
• Maintain and evolve existing AI solutions, implementing updates, bug fixes, and enhancements based on user feedback and changing business needs.
• Document technical implementations, code standards, and operational procedures to support knowledge sharing and system maintenance.
• Stay current with emerging AI tools and platforms, continuously learning new technologies and evaluating their potential for business applications.

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