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Senior AI Engineer

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In-Office
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
Senior level
In-Office
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
Senior level
Build and scale production machine learning systems for ecommerce search, retrieval, ranking, recommendations, personalization, and GenAI experiences. Responsibilities include developing ML models, optimizing multi-stage ranking pipelines, running offline and A/B experiments, applying reinforcement learning and bandits, deploying Databricks pipelines through AKS, designing scalable ML infrastructure, and monitoring models using MLOps and LLMOps practices.
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Role Overview:
We are hiring a Senior AI Engineer / Applied Scientist to build and scale ML systems powering ecommerce search, retrieval, and personalization. This is an 80% ML Engineering role focused on production systems, rapid experimentation, and measurable business impact.

You will own end-to-end AI solutions across matching, retrieval, ranking, and GenAI-powered experiences, from prototyping to deployment at scale.

Core Responsibilities
Design, build, and improve ML models for: 
  •       Product matching / entity resolution 
  •       Semantic retrieval and search relevance 
  •       Ranking and recommendation systems 
  • Develop and optimize multi-stage ranking pipelines (candidate generation → ranking → re-ranking) 
  • Run experimentation frameworks (offline evaluation, A/B testing) to drive continuous improvement 
  • Apply reinforcement learning / bandits for personalization and ranking optimization 
  • Build and deploy GenAI and agentic AI systems for search, discovery, and content use cases 
  • Productionize ML systems using Databricks-based pipelines and deploy services via AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) 
  • Design scalable, reliable ML infrastructure with focus on latency, throughput, and cost efficiency 
  • Monitor model performance and continuously iterate using MLOps/LLMOps best practices 
  • Independently scope ambiguous problems and drive them from idea → production

Requirements
Required Qualifications
5–8+ years of experience in ML Engineering / Applied AI 

Strong experience with: 
Search, retrieval, and ranking systems 
NLP / embeddings / deep learning models 
Experimentation and evaluation methodologies 
Proven track record of building production-grade ML systems 
Strong proficiency in Python 
Hands-on experience with Databricks and Kubernetes-based deployment (AKS preferred) 
Ability to learn quickly and operate independently in a fast-evolving AI landscape 

Preferred Qualifications
Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field (preferably in NLP or Computer Vision) 

Experience with: 
Multi-stage ranking systems (search/recommendation engines) 
Reinforcement learning / bandits 
GenAI, LLMs, and agentic frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, etc.) 
Ecommerce or marketplace domains 

Familiarity with: 
Modern data platforms (Snowflake, Data Lakes) 
MLOps/LLMOps tools (MLflow or similar) 
AI governance (evaluation, explainability, safety)

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