Automation Developer - Python + AI

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. 

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Automation Engineer – Python + AI located in Chennai location.

Reports to the Senior Manager, and the role involves,

What a typical day looks like:

• Business Process Automation:

• Design, develop, and deploy Python-based automation solutions for enterprise business processes

• Analyze existing business workflows and identify automation and optimization opportunities

• Build scalable automation frameworks that improve efficiency, accuracy, and turnaround time

• AI-Driven Intelligent Automation:

• Develop and integrate AI/ML models into business workflows for intelligent decision-making

• Apply NLP and data analytics to automate document processing, emails, tickets, and reports

• Enable self-learning and adaptive automation using AI techniques

• Data & System Integration:

• Integrate automation solutions with enterprise applications, databases, and APIs

• Manage data ingestion, preprocessing, inference, and output pipelines

• Ensure robustness, security, and scalability of automation solutions

• Optimization, Reporting & Governance:

• Monitor automation performance using KPIs, metrics, and dashboards

• Continuously improve automation accuracy, throughput, and cost efficiency

• Ensure compliance with enterprise governance, security, and audit requirements

• Collaboration & Leadership:

• Work closely with business users, process owners, and IT teams to deliver value-driven automation

• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior automation engineers

• Contribute to automation standards, best practices, and reusable assets

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, Information Technology, AI/ML, Data Science, or related field

• 2–5 years of experience in Python development and AI-driven automation solutions

• Proven experience in Business Process Automation (BPA), Intelligent Automation, or Digital Transformation initiatives

• Exposure to enterprise systems, workflows, and data-driven decision automation

• Core Python & Automation Skills:

• Strong Python programming expertise (mandatory)

• Automation scripts, workflow orchestration, backend services, api.

• Experience building end-to-end automation pipelines

• Strong understanding of OOP, modular design, and scalable architecture

• Hands-on experience in Linux/Unix environments

• AI / Machine Learning for Automation:

• Practical knowledge of AI/ML concepts applied to business automation

• Classification, clustering, prediction, recommendation

• Hands-on experience with Python AI/ML libraries: NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Langchain, OpenAI

• TensorFlow / PyTorch (preferred)

• Experience applying AI to business processes, such as: Web Search, Document Search, OCR, Generative AI, Prompting, Demand forecasting and optimization, NLP for document processing, emails, and chatbots

• Business Process Automation & Platforms:

• Experience with BPA / RPA tools and frameworks (good to have): UiPath, Power Automate, or Python-based automation frameworks

• Strong understanding of business workflows, SLAs, KPIs, and process optimization

• Experience automating manual, repetitive, and rule-based enterprise processes

• Data, Integration & Systems:

• Strong knowledge of SQL and enterprise data sources

• Experience with APIs, system integrations, and microservices

• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure / AWS / GCP) for automation and AI workloads

• DevOps & Engineering Practices:

• Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for deploying automation and AI services

• Knowledge of containerization and scalable deployment (Docker – good to have)

• Soft Skills & Professional Attributes:

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities

• Ability to translate business requirements into automated, AI-driven solutions

• Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills

• Ability to work independently and with cross-functional business and IT teams

• Certifications in AI/ML, RPA, Cloud Platforms, or Automation Technologies are a plus

• Rotational shifts

Here are a few examples of what you will get for the great work you provide:

• Health Insurance

• PTO

NK99

Required Skills:

Optional Skills:

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