AI Engineer

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Location - Pune

AI Engineer -

Job Description:

Role Overview
An AI Engineer at METRO unlocks the potential of AI for full organization. Rapidly delivers business-driven AI solutions by integrating existing cloud models and APIs, rather than inventing new algorithms. An AI Engineer builds digital agents and engineers the future of smart wholesale by delivering pragmatic, secure, maintainable, and observable AI powered solutions, that drive business value. Curious to get more information about the team, the products, or the tech stack

Key Responsibilities

• Rapidly deliver business-driven AI solutions by integrating existing cloud models and APIs, focusing on practical implementation rather than developing new algorithms.
• Translate business goals into AI-powered solutions, ensuring technical feasibility through collaboration with squad leads, data scientists, architects, and full stack engineers.
• Integrate Google Cloud AI services and models into microservices and workflows to support scalable and maintainable solutions.
• Design, implement, deploy, and monitor intelligent agents to support automation and personalization.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build and GitHub Actions, collaborating closely with DevOps engineers and SREs for robust deployment and monitoring.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation including API references, runbooks, architecture diagrams, and conduct internal demos and training sessions.
• Ensure all AI solutions comply with METROs corporate policies on responsible AI and ethical standards.

Qualifications

Education: Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering.

Work Experience & Skills

• Proven experience with Google Cloud Platform development (AI services/products such as Vertex AI, Document AI, BigQuery ML, Agent Development Framework).
• Strong knowledge of third-party LLMs (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Azure OpenAI), mastering prompt and context engineering.
• Strong knowledge of microservices architecture and several development patterns (API-driven development; event-driven or message-driven development).
• Proven experience with programming languages (SQL & Python is a must).
• Knowledge of agentic development frameworks (e.g. Google Agent Development Kit).
• Proficient in using coding assistant tools, building POCs rapidly.
• Knowledge of BigQuery.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, in the context of Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong team player with a fast-learning, “iterate quickly” mindset, eager to help redefine how METRO operates in the age of AI.
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Demonstrated problem-solving ability with a structured, process-oriented approach.