Kanini is seeking a hands-on Applied AI Engineering Lead to drive high-impact engineering initiatives and deliver AI-powered solutions for our customers. You'll lead design, development, and deployment across multiple projects while mentoring engineers, shaping technical standards, and using modern AI/agentic tools to accelerate delivery.
What You'll Do
- Lead end-to-end engineering: requirements, architecture, development, testing, integration, and support
- Build high-quality, scalable solutions using modern frameworks and cloud-native architectures
- Apply GenAI, LLMs, RAG, vector databases, and agentic engineering practices across the SDLC
- Create technical specs, write clean code, and review/mentor engineers to uphold quality
- Partner with product, experience, and delivery teams to ensure customer-aligned outcomes
- Use AI tools for code generation, testing, documentation, and rapid prototyping
- Engage with customers to understand needs and deliver the right solution at the right time
- Drive engineering standards, lean experimentation, and continuous improvement
What You Bring
- 6–8 years of software engineering experience across: Angular, React, NodeJS, Python, C#, .NET, Java, SQL/NoSQL
- 2+ years building AI/ML applications (LLMs, RAG, vector DBs, prompt engineering)
- Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and AI services (Azure OpenAI, Bedrock, Vertex AI)
- Strong understanding of OOP/OOD, data structures, algorithms, diagrams, and modern engineering practices
- Experience with DevSecOps, Lean/XP, SRE, GitHub/ADO, SonarQube, MLflow, or agentic AI frameworks
- Ability to lead workstreams, mentor engineers, and collaborate in fast-paced environments
- Strong communication skills and ability to translate business needs into technical solutions
- Ability to work onsite 3 days/week; limited sponsorship available; 0–10% travel
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