Artificial Intelligence Engineer

AI Engineer Andela Location Requirement: India About Andela Andela exists to connect brilliance and opportunity. Since 2014, we have been dedicated to breaking down global barriers and accelerating the future of work for both technologists and organizations around the world. For technologists, Andela offers competitive long-term career opportunities with leading organizations, access to a global community of professionals, and educational opportunities with leading technology providers. At Andela, we’re deeply passionate about creating long-lasting and transformative growth opportunities for all - and doing it in an E.P.I.C. way! We’re excited to continue building our remote-first team with incredible people like you. After applying for this role, you will join our Andela Community of brilliant technologists by passing a technical screening and live interview. As a community member, you’ll have access to many exclusive technologist roles.

Join Andela today to access this opportunity and more in our global marketplace! Our roles are typically filled at lightning speed, so if you’re considering applying, get your application in quickly! Andela´s Benefits: -- 100% payment in USD. This is a fully remote opportunity for one of our esteemed clients. About the role This role is part of the Advanced Technology team in the Digital eXperience Group (*/dxg) which co-creates state-of-the-art products and solutions with businesses around the globe. Our growing array of solutions supports the expanding set of Expert Solutions and online product portfolios. Responsibilities Develop Design and deliver GenAI features including Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), prompt/context engineering, and evaluation frameworks using LLM with appropriate safety controls. Build solutions for semantic search, natural language understanding, conversational assistants, and intelligent automation by combining embeddings with vector search. Provide expertise in data wrangling, exploratory data analysis, and experiment design; author and improve test scripts and harnesses for deterministic/stochastic model behavior, regression, and E2E functionality. Support the development of proofs of concept and production services using Python and FastAPI. Run load tests, monitor logs, and iterate based on cost/latency/quality signals. Be a self-starter who aligns technology choices with business goals, practices Responsible AI (guardrails, content filtering, auditability), and continuously improves reliability, safety, and user outcomes. Collaborate effectively with product and engineering. Qualifications Undergraduate or Graduate degree (MS or PhD) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent, with focus in ML/AI or a related field. 3+ years’ experience delivering production-ready solutions leveraging AI/ML or GenAI (LLMs, embeddings, semantic search, RAG). Strong hands-on expertise in Python and libraries/frameworks such as NumPy, pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch and/or TensorFlow; experience with HuggingFace Transformers and SentenceTransformers. Experience integrating LLMs (Azure OpenAI GPT and/or AWS Bedrock Claude) and applying prompt engineering, function/tool calling, and schema-constrained generation. Experience with vector databases and retrieval (Weaviate preferred; alternatively, Pinecone, Qdrant, etc.). Experience designing, building, and optimizing training/evaluation pipelines (Amazon SageMaker Pipelines; or Azure ML Pipelines) and maintaining model/test automation scripts. Experience developing and operating Python services with FastAPI; containers and cloud platforms including AWS (Fargate, ECS, ECR, CloudWatch, DynamoDB) or Azure equivalents (AKS/ACI/ACR, Monitor, Cosmos DB). Experience with model serving and performance (NVIDIA Triton, TorchServe, TF Serving, KServe, BentoML, or managed endpoints); ability to run load tests and tune for latency/throughput/cost. Experience working with agile and Software Development Lifecycle tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, Git) and test-driven or automation-first practices. Nice to have: agentic AI, RAG rerankers, LLM observability, data governance and Responsible AI.

Required skills Data Science (7 - 9 yrs) Python (7 - 9 yrs) AWS (Amazon Web Services) (4 - 6 yrs) Natural Language Processing (4 - 6 yrs) LLM (Large Language Models) (2 - 3 yrs) Optional skills Azure (Microsoft Azure) (2 - 3 yrs) Must-Haves:

Experience with NLP and Data Science foundations, LLMs, GenAI, Agentic AI. Main job time zone:

EST Time zone overlap requirements:

Availability for EST overlap (3 am - 12 pm EST) Location Requirements: India

Offer Estimated Duration:

6-month-term contractor position (Renewable) Full-time dedication (40 hours/week)

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