Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Generative AI

🚀 Senior Forward Deployed Engineer – Generative AI

📍 Location: Chennai (India)

🌏 Global Opportunity: Relocation to Japan after 1–3 months in Chennai

🧠 Experience Required: 8–15 Years

🔍 Role Overview

We are hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to design, build, and deploy production-grade Generative AI systems for enterprise customers.This is a high-impact, hands-on engineering role where you will initially work from Chennai for 1–3 months, followed by relocation to Japan, working closely with global customers and teams.

🛠 Key Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend systems and microservices using clean architecture
• Develop and deploy RAG-based GenAI systems and agentic AI workflows
• Integrate LLM APIs (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Bedrock, etc.)
• Build evaluation pipelines to improve accuracy and reduce hallucinations
• Deploy and manage systems on AWS / Azure / GCP using Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD
• Implement observability (logs, metrics, tracing, SLOs)
• Optimize models for latency, cost, performance, and scalability
• Work directly with enterprise clients to gather requirements and explain trade-offs

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• Transition into a Japan-facing engineering role after onboarding period

🧠 Required Skills

Core Technical Skills (Must Have)

• 8–12 years of strong software engineering experience
• Strong Python backend development
• Experience in microservices & REST API design
• Hands-on experience with:
• Generative AI / LLM systems
• RAG pipelines and vector databases
• Cloud platforms: AWS / Azure / GCP
• DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD

⭐ Strong Plus (Highly Preferred)

• Strategic AI thinking (ability to align AI solutions with business goals)

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• Model fine-tuning (LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT, RLHF)
• Model optimization (latency, cost, quantization, GPU efficiency)
• Model serving: vLLM, TGI
• Evaluation frameworks: RAGAS, LangSmith, DeepEval
• Vector DBs: Pinecone, Milvus, FAISS, Weaviate
• Agentic AI frameworks: LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI
• Strong understanding of Transformers & Attention mechanisms

🎓 Education & Background (Preferred)

• Tier-1 Engineering Institute preferred (IIT / NIT / IIIT / BITS)
• Experience in Tier-1 product company preferred

🌍 Global Mobility

• Initial onboarding in Chennai (1–3 months)

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• Relocation to Japan for long-term role
• Opportunity to work with global enterprise clients

🌟 Why This Role?

• Build real production GenAI systems (not PoCs)
• High ownership and architectural impact
• Fast-track international career (Japan)
• Work at the intersection of AI + backend + cloud engineering
• Exposure to global enterprise customers

🎯 Ideal Candidate Profile

• Backend engineer with strong GenAI system experience
• Built RAG pipelines / AI agents in production
• Strong in Python + APIs + cloud + LLM integration
• Exposure to model optimization & fine-tuning
• Open to Japan relocation and global career growth