Persistent Systems is looking for an AI Engineer to design, build, and deploy secure AI applications that help employees find information, automate work, analyze data, and make better decisions.
You'll work closely with business and technical teams to turn ideas into reliable AI solutions using modern generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agent-based technologies. This role covers the full software development lifecycle—from planning and prototyping to deployment, monitoring, and ongoing improvements.
We're looking for someone who enjoys solving real business problems, understands both the opportunities and limitations of AI, and can explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Position Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain AI-powered applications
- Develop RAG systems, AI agents, and conversational AI solutions
- Work with business, engineering, IT, security, and data teams to identify AI use cases and deliver production-ready solutions
- Build secure data ingestion, retrieval, and search pipelines
- Evaluate AI models, frameworks, SDKs, and cloud services based on performance, cost, security, and business needs
- Develop Python APIs and services using tools like FastAPI, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Implement AI safety, security, governance, and monitoring practices
- Create evaluation frameworks to measure AI quality, accuracy, latency, cost, and reliability
- Connect AI solutions to enterprise databases and analytics platforms
- Document solutions, mentor teammates, review code, and promote engineering best practices
Technologies You'll Work With
- Programming: Python, SQL, pandas, R
- AI Frameworks: LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen
- Agent SDKs: Microsoft 365 Agents SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, Google ADK
- Cloud Platforms: Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Databricks
- Deployment: FastAPI, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD
- Model Hosting: Hugging Face, Ollama
- AI Evaluation: LangSmith, MLflow, Braintrust, Langfuse, Arize Phoenix
- Analytics: Power BI, Tableau
- Machine Learning: PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, XGBoost
Minimum Qualifications
- 2–5 years of experience in software engineering, machine learning, data engineering, or AI engineering
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, data science, mathematics, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- Strong Python programming skills
- Experience building generative AI applications using LangChain, LangGraph, or similar frameworks
- Experience with RAG systems, prompt engineering, and AI application development
- Experience using at least one major AI platform such as Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, or Databricks