FarmwiseAI - Senior Generative AI Engineer

Role : Senior Generative AI Engineer Location : Chennai (on-site) Exp : 3 - 5 years FarmwiseAI is a leading Geospatial AI company based in Chennai, specializing in AI driven agriculture solutions that enable data-driven decision-making for governments, lenders, and businesses. Founded in 2020, we deliver real-time advisory, automated land mapping, and crop-monitoring products at scale to foster sustainable development. As an AI-first organization, we embed AI assistance across our entire product lifecycle from brainstorming and architecture to testing and deployment to empower every team member to leverage AI in their day-to-day work. We are hiring a Generative AI Engineer to build, deploy, and optimize multimodal AI services across text, speech, and vision. You'll work on RAG, synthetic data generation, agent workflows, and integrate STT/TTS/OCR with scalable backend systems. Generative Pipelines : Design applications for RAG, CAG, text classification, summarization, image/video generation, OCR, and synthetic data generation. Multimodal Integration : Work with STT, TTS, IVR, OCR, and vision inputs to enable seamless AI interactions. AI Agent Workflows : Develop modular, multi-step orchestrations for document, conversational, and data-based user journeys. Containerization & Deployment : Collaborate with DevOps to containerize services, manage Kubernetes orchestration, and implement CI/CD for agile delivery. Observability : Instrument services using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and logging tools to ensure SLO-driven production reliability. Collaboration : Work cross-functionally with product, data science, and frontend teams to define APIs (REST/GraphQL) and ensure smooth integration. Documentation & Mentorship : Participate in architecture reviews, write clear documentation, and mentor junior engineers and interns Bachelor's/Masters in Computer Science, Data Science, IT, or related field. 2 - 3 years of experience building AI/ML products in Python. Must be proficient in AI-first coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Roocode, etc. Proven experience in deploying GenAI applications and agents in production. Strong hands-on with vector search, embedding-based retrieval, STT, TTS, OCR/vision. Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, frontend development, and CI/CD workflows. Strong debugging, performance tuning, and cost-optimization skills. Excellent communication, teamwork, and mentoring abilities. Languages & Tools (mandatory) : Python (pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc.), Git/GitHub , AWS or GCP. Generative AI stack (mandatory) : LangChain, LlamaIndex, transformers, frontier LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini models) and open models (DeepSeek, Qwen, Llama and Phi models). Vector stores : FAISS, Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, etc. Keyword Index : Elasticsearch, Apache Solr, Typesense, etc. Validation frameworks : Pydantic, Instructor, etc. LLM Abstraction libraries : Lite LLM Asynchronous or parallel programming : asyncio, joblib, etc. API frameworks : FastAPI, Flask, etc. FE prototyping : Streamlit, Gradio, etc Agentic AI Frameworks (mandatory, 1) : Google Agents Development Kit , LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, PydanticAI. Speech & Vision (nice-to-have) : OpenAI Realtime Voice API/Whisper; ElevenLabs/Smallest.ai TTS; LlamaParse/JinaAI/Mistral OCR. Observability & Monitoring (nice-to-have) : OpenTelemetry, Prometheus , LangSmith, Pydantic Logfire . Cloud & DevOps (nice-to-have) : Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions. Domain experience in AgriTech, FinTech, HRTech or EduTech. Experience and profound interest in reading and implementing research papers. Open-source contributions or published evaluation suites. Exposure to managed cloud AI services (Vertex AI, Bedrock, JumpStart). Familiarity with React/Next.js integration (ref:hirist.tech) Show more Show less