Senior Principal Al Engineer
Cornerstone · Hyderabad · onsite · Posted 56d ago
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About this role
About Cornerstone:
Cornerstone powers the future-ready workforce with modern, AI-driven employment solutions. Our platform enables companies to develop, manage, and engage their talentunlocking growth and innovation across organizations of all sizes.
Cornerstone powers the future-ready workforce with modern, AI-driven employment solutions. Our platform enables companies to develop, manage, and engage their talentunlocking growth and innovation across organizations of all sizes.
In this role you will..
- Design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI agents and multi-agent systems using modern LLM frameworks.
- Build and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions for enterprise-scale applications.
- Develop intelligent workflows involving planning, reasoning, memory management, tool calling, and function calling.
- Design and implement scalable backend services and REST APIs using Python frameworks such as FastAPI.
- Integrate LLMs with enterprise systems, vector databases, APIs, and external tools.
- Deploy AI applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Optimize AI systems for latency, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Build evaluation pipelines to measure retrieval quality, response relevance, hallucination rates, and overall LLM performance.
- Implement semantic search, hybrid search, reranking, embedding pipelines, and vector database integrations.
- Establish observability, monitoring, logging, and tracing for AI applications using industry-standard tools.
- Collaborate with product managers, software engineers, data scientists, and platform teams to deliver end-to-end AI solutions.
- Mentor junior engineers and promote AI engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural excellence.
- Stay up to date with emerging advancements in LLMs, Agentic AI, RAG, and AI infrastructure.
You've got what it takes if you have...
- Bachelor's or masters degree in computer science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of overall software engineering experience.
- Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience building AI/Generative AI applications using Large Language Models (LLMs).
- Minimum 3 years of experience developing scalable backend software and distributed systems.
- Strong proficiency in Java and Python and modern software engineering principles.
- Hands-on experience with AI orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.
- Experience designing and implementing production-grade RAGsystems, including embedding models, semantic search, hybrid search, reranking, and vector databases.
- Experience with vector databases such as Milvus, Pinecone, Weaviate, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, FAISS, or ChromaDB.
- Experience integrating and deploying applications using LLMs such as OpenAI GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral, Amazon Nova, or Azure OpenAI.
- Strong experience building REST APIs using FastAPIor similar Python frameworks.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Dockerand Kubernetes.
- Experience deploying AI solutions on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git, and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience with AI evaluation, prompt engineering, observability, and monitoring tools such as LangSmith, Langfuse, MLflow, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or Grafana.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, microservices, asynchronous programming, and distributed systems.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
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