AI Bootcamp Director and Rapid Prototyping Engineer

I. About Us

KOLOFON.AI is a Thiruvananthapuram-based campaign-driven AI venture poised to upend the AI experience in India. We follow the Oversubscribed principles of Daniel Priestley and run high-impact, 90-day campaigns that build authority and draw customers to us.

II. About the Role

We are hiring a hands-on Senior AI Systems Engineer to direct the 2-day Developer Prototyping Bootcamp segment of EMERGENCE 26 (October 21–22, 2026). You will lead 65 regional software developers through an intensive code-level deep dive into building production-grade RAG pipelines, stateful graph agents, and multi-agent systems using industry-standard Python frameworks.

III. What You Will Build and Lead

1. 16 Hours of Live-Coding Labs: Architect and deliver live-coding labs, hands-on repository walkthroughs, and architecture building blocks for professional developers.
2. Advanced RAG Engineering: Teach indexing, chunking strategies, hybrid search, and reranking using LlamaIndex and Vector Database ChromaDB.
3. Stateful Multi-Agent Orchestration: Guide developers through multi-agent systems using LangGraph, including memory persistence and tool integration.
4. Production Observability: Implement prompt evals, error tracing, and performance monitoring using LangSmith.
5. Floor Leadership and Delegation: Directly command and delegate technical troubleshooting tasks to two graduate assistants on the workshop floor to maintain classroom flow. 

IV. Critical Skills and Inputs (Non-Negotiable)

1. Production Python and AI Engineering: 3+ years of production experience building and deploying LLM applications, custom RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows.
2. Mastery of Mainstream Developer Frameworks: Deep hands-on expertise in LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, and ChromaDB integrations.
3. Live Coding and Technical Pedagogy: Demonstrated ability to lead high-density developer bootcamps, troubleshoot local/cloud environment setups, and review developer code on the fly.
4. Practical Python and API Architecture: Advanced fluency in Python data structures (lists, dicts, Pydantic models), JSON schemas, and REST API authentication workflows.
5. High-Speed Technical Troubleshooting: Elite debugging capabilities; ability to instantly diagnose and correct broken API endpoints, environment conflicts, or syntax errors across student laptops under time pressure.
6. Resource and Runtime Management: Proven experience managing data pipelines, monitoring concurrent API key rate limits, and preventing runtime lag over high-density network environments.

V. What We Offer

• A high-growth technical platform owning the rapid prototyping engine of an aggressive AI venture.
• Direct authority over a large-scale local tech ecosystem of developers, system administrators, and corporate IT leads.
• Base Security: A guaranteed, high-value monthly base retainer disbursed across the campaign preparation and delivery phases.
• Performance Upside: An attractive technical execution and participant CSAT-based performance bonus upon successful bootcamp delivery and repository handoffs.
• Opportunity to transition into a permanent engineering leadership or product delivery role within KOLOFON.AI. 

VI. How to Apply

Apply on LinkedIn. Simultaneously, submit a link to a functional code repository, visual workflow, or backend node pipeline you have personally deployed, alongside a structural overview of how you run a multi-hour technical live-coding lab. Email submissions to [HIDDEN TEXT] with the subject line [Bootcamp Director Application] Your Name.