Senior Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Engineer

Ciklum is looking for a Senior Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Engineer to join our team full-time in India.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Senior Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.

This role is responsible for developing and enhancing enterprise Generative AI capabilities within the MALTS platform, accelerating AI adoption through reusable frameworks, agentic services, and self-service platform components. The engineer will contribute to the development of scalable GenAI, Data Science, and AI/ML lifecycle capabilities that enable faster delivery of business solutions across Consumer, Banking, and Wealth organizations.

This is a hands-on software engineering role focused on building enterprise-grade Generative AI, Data Science, and AI Platform capabilities within client's strategic AI ecosystem. The engineer will work as an individual contributor responsible for designing, developing, and delivering reusable GenAI platform services, frameworks, APIs, and application components that support AI model development, deployment, inferencing, automation, and governance.

The successful candidate will partner with senior engineers, architects, product owners, and data scientists to develop scalable, secure, and resilient solutions leveraging modern AI frameworks, cloud-native technologies, distributed computing platforms, and enterprise engineering practices.

This role is ideal for an engineer passionate about Generative AI, application development, platform engineering, automation, and building reusable capabilities that accelerate enterprise AI adoption.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and enhance enterprise Generative AI platform capabilities, reusable services, and self-service tools
• Design and build AI-powered applications, agentic workflows, RAG solutions, and MCP-enabled services
• Develop scalable APIs, microservices, and platform components supporting AI/ML lifecycle management
• Build and maintain frameworks supporting model development, fine-tuning, deployment, inferencing, monitoring, and observability
• Implement event-driven and streaming solutions leveraging technologies such as Kafka and distributed processing platforms
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, testing strategies, and DevOps practices
• Collaborate with platform engineers, architects, data scientists, and business stakeholders to deliver new capabilities
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, sprint planning, story refinement, and estimation activities
• Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for security, scalability, governance, resiliency, and operational excellence
• Support platform observability, monitoring, and performance optimization initiatives
• Continuously evaluate emerging AI technologies and contribute innovative solutions to enhance platform capabilities
• Core Engineering Responsibilities:
  • Develop code and automated tests to deliver stories and requirements meeting quality and compliance standards
  • Participate in application design leveraging data, application, integration, and platform architecture patterns
  • Collaborate in requirement analysis, story refinement, and solution design activities
  • Estimate and deliver assigned work within Agile development cycles
  • Build agentic applications, AI assistants, workflow automation capabilities, and event-driven services using Kafka, containers, and MCP architectures
  • Deliver secure, scalable, observable, and resilient software solutions aligned with enterprise standards
  • Troubleshoot, optimize, and maintain platform services to ensure operational excellence

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical discipline
• 6+ years of software engineering experience with strong expertise in Python-based application development
• Experience developing AI/ML, Data Science, Data Engineering, or analytics applications in enterprise environments
• Strong understanding of modern Generative AI and Data Science platform architectures, including compute-storage separation, virtual environments, containers, Jupyter, and VS Code-based development
• Hands-on experience developing AI/ML and GenAI solutions using modern frameworks and tools
• Experience building scalable REST APIs and microservices using FastAPI or similar frameworks
• Experience developing applications leveraging vector stores, inference services, model-serving technologies, and AI orchestration frameworks
• Strong Python programming skills with experience building production-grade applications and reusable libraries
• Experience with AI/ML lifecycle management frameworks such as MLFlow, Kubeflow, model deployment, fine-tuning, and inference frameworks
• Experience building applications with API Gateway integration, JWT-based authentication, and enterprise security controls
• Understanding of metadata management, data lineage, governance principles, and semantic layer concepts
• Experience working within large-scale engineering organizations utilizing Git-based development, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and collaborative development practices
• Familiarity with cloud-native development, containers, Kubernetes, and distributed computing environments
• Core Skills:
  • Python
  • Generative AI / LLMs
  • RAG & Agentic AI
  • MCP
  • Data Engineering
  • Kubernetes & Containers
  • Cloud Engineering
  • CI/CD & DevSecOps
  • Kafka/Event Streaming
  • APIs & Microservices
  • AI Platform Engineering

Desirable:

• Experience developing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions
• Experience building MCP servers, AI agents, and multi-agent orchestration frameworks
• Knowledge of LLM integration, prompt engineering, model evaluation, and AI observability
• Familiarity with enterprise AI governance, responsible AI, metadata, and data quality concepts
• Exposure to enterprise-scale Generative AI platforms and self-service developer ecosystems

What’s in it for you?

• Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
• Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
• Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
• Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
• Care: We’ve got you covered with company-paid medical insurance, mental health support, and financial & legal consultations

About us:

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.

India is a strategic innovation hub for Ciklum, with growing teams in Chennai and Pune leading advancements in EdgeTech, AR/VR, IoT, and beyond. Join us to collaborate on game-changing solutions and take your career to the next level.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!

Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.

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