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:
Ciklum is seeking a Senior Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Engineer to join the project, an ambitious initiative to build an enterprise-grade Agent Development Platform (ADP). This role is central to our "Wave 1" objective: establishing a production-ready foundation that decouples core infrastructure from individual agent business logic. You will be responsible for building high-performance AI agents and the underlying SDK that powers them.
Responsibilities:
Agent Development: Design, build, and test production-grade agents (e.g., Lease Abstraction, CAM Reconciliation) using the Prodigy framework as a baseline
SDK & Gateway Engineering: Develop a lightweight Python SDK to interface between agents and the platform Control Plane, abstracting complex LLM routing to providers like AWS Bedrock and Anthropic
Knowledge Engineering: Build and configure RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) knowledge bases and GraphDB mappings to provide agents with secure, domain-specific context
Safety & Governance: Implement "Human-in-the-Loop" (HITL) escalation interfaces, confidence thresholds, and strict egress controls to prevent data exfiltration
Ensure all AI solutions comply with security, data privacy, and responsible-AI standards
Optimization: Configure "Agent Overrides" and token optimization strategies (e.g., "balanced" vs. "perfectionist" consumption) via configurable workflows
End-to-End Development: Lead the design, development, and deployment of advanced AI systems across Data Science and AI Engineering domains
Contribute hands-on to development activities, from experimentation and prototyping to production-grade implementation
Architecture & Pipelines: Architect and implement scalable AI pipelines and LLM-driven applications, including RAG, orchestration, and multi-agent systems
MLOps / LLMOps: Apply MLOps and LLMOps best practices for CI/CD, observability, evaluation, and continuous improvement of AI models and pipelines
Ecosystem Integration: Integrate AI services with enterprise platforms (e.g., Confluence, Jira, GitHub, CRM, ERP) and ensure seamless interoperability
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional engineering, data, and product teams to align technical solutions with client and business objectives
Innovation: Drive innovation through internal frameworks and accelerators
Commercial / Presales
Technical Authority: Serve as the technical authority during client engagements, ensuring architecture quality, scalability, performance, and reliability
Subject Matter Expertise: Act as a technical SME in presales conversations, translating business challenges into viable AI engineering solutions
Strategic Planning: Partner with delivery and account teams to shape long-term client engagement strategies based on engineering excellence
Internal Resource Management & Team Building
Mentorship & Standardization: Provide technical guidance to mid-level AI engineers and lead "Agent Factory" sessions to standardize decision logic and orchestration patterns
Mentor engineering peers and support knowledge sharing across teams and practices (e.g., contributing to Ciklum’s AI Academy)
Recruitment: Support recruitment efforts through technical assessments, interviews, and candidate evaluation
Cross-Skilling: Mentor team members and contribute to cross-skilling initiatives within the AI and Engineering service lines
Engineering Excellence: Uphold engineering excellence by promoting best practices, code quality, and delivery standards across projects
Requirements:
AI Ecosystem: Extensive experience with Python, LangChain, and LangSmith; familiarity with the Prodigy framework is a significant advantage
Agentic Intelligence: Proven track record building multi-step reasoning chains, tool-use protocols, and state management for autonomous agents
Data Architecture: Practical experience with Vector Databases (ChromaDB, PGVector) and building ETL "Data Engines" for secure agent consumption via MCP
Infrastructure: Understanding of containerization (Docker/K8s) and isolated runtimes such as Firecracker MicroVMs for agent sandboxing
Integration: Experience integrating AI solutions with enterprise identity providers like WorkOS for multi-tenancy
Workflow Orchestration: Experience with Temporal for managing long-running, multi-stage agentic workflows
Desirable:
Domain Expertise: Familiarity with Commercial Real Estate workflows (Lease accounting, CAM reconciliation)
Evals Literacy: Experience building programmatic "Evaluation Harnesses" and testing against "Golden Datasets" to measure hallucination rates
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.