Lead/Principal AI Engineer

Experience

: 8.00 + years

Salary

: INR 9000000-10000000 / year (based on experience)

Expected Notice Period

: 7 Days

Shift

: (GMT+05:30) Asia/Kolkata (IST)

Opportunity Type

: Remote

Placement Type

: Full Time Permanent position(Payroll and Compliance to be managed by: Fincore)

(*Note: This is a requirement for one of Uplers' client - FC)What do you need for this opportunity?Must have skills required:Experience building fintech software, Experience working in a large enterprise / big tech, NIT's etc.), Top-tier institutes preferred (IIT's, and collaboration skills, Communication, Expertise in API design (REST, GraphQL) and relational databases, LLM, Strong problem-solving, Node Js, PythonFC is Looking for:

About The Job

About clientAt client, we’re on a mission to to build next-generation AI-native finance technology for enterprisesOur core values - ownership, customer obsession, truth-seeking, and velocity - guide everything we doWe are venture-backed and closely collaborate with seasoned technology, finance and AI leadersWe maintain a small, talent-dense team of domain experts and technologistsWhat We're looking forWe are seeking an extremely talented, Lead to Principal-Level AI engineer to help us pioneer the future of finance and accounting. You must have experience building high-quality, complex, yet maintainable LLM apps and agents, and you should be able to do so in a fraction of the time that most competent people think is possible (in part because of your ability to wield the latest in code generation and intuition for prompt engineering). You must have a strong ability to collaborate with customers directly to build solutions tailored to their business needs.As a Lead AI Engineer, you will:Architect and build the core AI platform that powers finance and accounting solutionsDesign, develop, and productionize large‑scale LLMs, RAG pipelines, and autonomous agentsDefine and enforce best practices for prompt engineering, model fine‑tuning, and evaluationMentor and grow a team of AI engineers, guiding technical design reviews and code qualityPartner closely with Product, Data, and Customer teams to translate finance use cases into robust, scalable solutionsMust-Have Skills8+ years of experience building backend services in Python, Node.js, or similarDeep experience and intuition with LLMsCutting-edge knowledge of code generation and prompting techniquesExperience building agents and tooling for agentsExpertise in API design (REST, GraphQL) and relational databasesStrong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skillsGood to haveTop-tier institutes preferred (IIT's, NIT's etc.)Experience building fintech softwareExperience working in a large enterprise / big techOur Tech Stack: NextJS | Python | LangGraph | AWS | Neo4j | PostgreSQL | MongoDB

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