AI engineer

**About the role**

This is the Engineering Lead role.

The person hired will:

• Own technical architecture and engineering execution end-to-end

• Write production code daily — this is not a manager-of-managers role

• Lead and grow a team of 3–4 engineers in the next 6–12 months

• Work directly with the founders, with no layer between field observations and product decisions

• Engage directly with enterprise customers — translating their messy operational reality into shipped software

• Build production AI systems solving real enterprise complexity (not chatbot wrappers)

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**Must-have requirements**

• 4–7 years of hands-on engineering experience

• At least 1–2 years of leading or technically mentoring engineers

• Strong on Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis (these are our actual stack — not nice-to-have)

• Shipped LLM-based systems in production — RAG, agents, prompt evaluation, or similar

• Track record of building 0-to-1: architecting systems from scratch, making hard technical bets, taking them to real customer adoption

• Comfortable using Claude or Cursor as primary development tools

• Can hold a meaningful conversation with a non-technical enterprise customer

• Comfortable with ambiguity — no spec, no roadmap, requirements changing every two weeks

• Bangalore-based, willing to work in-person most days

**Strong plus**

• Prior experience as a founding engineer or one of the first 5 engineers at a startup that grew

• Familiarity with LangGraph, vector DBs (Qdrant / Pinecone / pgvector), Celery, async Python at scale

• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS architecture

• Has explained technical concepts to non-technical enterprise buyers (in a sales or solutioning context)

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**Please do NOT send candidates who:**

• Are currently or most recently at a large company (1000+ headcount) with no prior startup exposure

• Have switched jobs more than twice in the last 18 months

• Are looking for a fully remote role

• Are looking for a stable, defined scope with a clear roadmap

• Are managers who have not written production code in the last 12 months