Staff Software Engineer, AI

Overview

Lead applied research and production development for Document AI solutions involving classification, information extraction, reasoning, LLMs, and automation.

What you'll do

• Lead design and development of Document AI capabilities.
• Drive research in LLM benchmarking, grounding, AI agents, RAG, and reasoning.
• Build, evaluate, and deploy NLP, information retrieval, and document-processing models.
• Translate business challenges into production-ready AI solutions with cross-functional teams.
• Develop scalable AI systems and maintain software engineering and deployment best practices.
• Mentor junior scientists and researchers.
• Communicate research findings and contribute to patents, publications, and conference presentations.

What you'll need

• PhD in a relevant field or a master's degree with equivalent industry experience.
• 7–10 years of hands-on commercial experience developing and deploying NLP, information retrieval, Document AI, or intelligent document processing solutions.
• Strong experience building AI applications with LLMs and modern machine learning techniques.
• Strong software engineering skills, including writing, testing, and deploying production code.
• Experience leading technical initiatives and collaborating cross-functionally.
• Experience mentoring team members and driving technical excellence.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to have

• Publications in leading AI, NLP, machine learning, or information retrieval conferences.
• Experience with LLM evaluation, AI agents, grounding, RAG, and reasoning optimization.
• Patents, research contributions, or recognized AI and machine learning innovations.
• Experience deploying large-scale AI systems in cloud environments.

Details

• Hybrid work model with 2–3 days per week in the office.
• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.