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AI Engineer – Innovation & Productivity

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12 years

Location

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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full-time

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About the role

Experience: 12+ years in AI/ML leadership, 10+ years overall in tech

Money Forward India is looking for a visionary and hands-on **AI Engineer** to drive innovation, productivity, and strategic alignment across global engineering, product, and stakeholder teams. This role blends deep technical expertise with cross-functional leadership to accelerate feature development, promote AI adoption, and shape the future of intelligent systems within our organization.Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be responsible for, but not limited to, the following key tasks:

  • Own the AI SDLC for Product Features
    • Strategic Definition: Define use cases, scope, success metrics, and release gates.
    • Context Engineering: Design context strategy (structured inputs, retrieval/RAG, redaction).
    • Architecture & Logic: Build prompt and agent designs with clear tool usage, boundaries, and fallbacks.
    • Quality Assurance: Create evaluation plans (golden sets, rubrics, automated regression tests).
    • Lifecycle Management: Support rollout, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
  • Build AI Features Across Multiple HR SaaS Products
    • Integration: Incorporate AI into core user journeys (onboarding, employee comms, policy Q&A, document generation, support workflows).
    • Scalability: Maintain reusable prompt/agent patterns across teams and products.
  • Prototype Independently and Deliver Production-Ready Specs
    • Feasibility: Build POCs and thin vertical slices to prove feasibility and user value
    • Documentation: Convert POCs into production specs: interfaces, constraints, failure modes, and acceptance criteria.
  • Guide Engineers to Productionize AI Behavior
    • Implementation: Translate product intent into implementable AI specs and review implementations.
    • Optimization: Help debug model behavior, tool failures, and edge cases.
    • Best Practices: Drive adoption of prompt versioning, eval harnesses, and monitoring.
  • Use and Extend Money Forward’s In-house AI Platform
    • Development: Build with internal models, orchestration frameworks, and shared components.
    • Platform Growth: Propose improvements for prompt management, eval tooling, logging, and guardrails.


    Requirements

    Qualifications
    Required Technical Expertise

    AI / ML Domains
    • Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning
    • Agentic AI systems and multi-agent orchestratio
    • Anomaly Detection, Recommender Systems
    • AI-assisted engineering (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot-style workflows)
    • Prompt Engineering, Context Engineering, RAG
    Frameworks & Libraries
    • Core ML / CV / NLP
    • TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, Scikit-learn
    • OpenCV
    • Pandas, NumPy
    • LLMs & Transformers
      • Hugging Face Transformers
      • GPT, BERT, T5, LLaMA
      • YOLO, GANs
    • Agent & LLM Orchestration
      • LangChain, LangGraph
      • CrewAI
      • LlamaIndex
      • DeepEval, LangSmith
    Databases & Data Stores
    • Vector Databases: FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus
    • Relational Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL
    • Graph Databases: Neo4j
    NLP & Language Technologies
    • NLP fundamentals, Word2Vec, embeddings
    • NLTK, SpaCy
    • Text classification, summarization, NER, semantic search
    IBM Watson Suite
    • Watson Discovery
    • Watsonx.ai
    • Watsonx.orchestrate
    • Watsonx.data
    • Watsonx.gov
    AI/LLM SDLC, Deployment & Operations
    • Model selection, fine-tuning, and prompt iteration
    • CI/CD for AI systems
    • Model and prompt versioning
    • Online and offline evaluation pipelines
    • Observability (logs, traces, metrics)
    • Cost optimization and token management
    • Governance, security, and compliance
    Preferred Experience
    • Experience leading AI initiatives in SaaS or enterprise platforms
    • Strong product mindset with ability to balance UX, reliability, and cost
    • Experience mentoring senior engineers and AI practitioners
    • Proven track record of taking AI systems from idea → production → scale


    Benefits

    Why Join Us?

    At Money Forward India, you'll be part of a dynamic, growth-oriented environment where innovation thrives. Our culture fosters collaboration, creativity, and professional development. Join us to be at the forefront of SaaS technology, with the security of an established corporate and the agility of a startup.

    • Startup-like Work Environment & Culture
    • Flexible Work Hours & Hybrid Work Policy (WFH 2 days a week)
    • Leaves: Casual, Earned, and Sick leaves
    • Up to 6 months of Maternity Leave
    • Casual Dress Code (Shorts, Slippers, Sandals: All OK!)
    • Corporate Health Insurance (Covering spouse, kids, and parents)
    • Performance Review Twice a Year (Salary can be increased twice)
    • Performance-Based Bonus
    • Global Work Environment
    • MacBook for All Employees
    • Chance to Visit Japan & Vietnam Offices on Business Trip



    About the company

    Money Forward India is looking for a visionary and hands-on AI Engineer to drive innovation, productivity, and strategic alignment across global engineering, product, and stakeholder teams. This role blends deep technical expertise with cross-functional leadership to accelerate feature development, promote AI adoption, and shape the future of intelligent systems within our organization.

    Skills

    machine learning
    deep learning
    reinforcement learning
    agentic ai systems
    anomaly detection
    recommender systems
    ai-assisted engineering
    prompt engineering
    context engineering
    rag
    tensorflow
    pytorch
    keras
    scikit-learn
    opencv
    pandas
    numpy
    hugging face transformers
    gpt
    bert
    t5
    llama
    yolo
    gans
    langchain
    langgraph
    crewai
    llamaindex
    deepeval
    langsmith
    faiss
    pinecone
    weaviate
    milvus
    postgresql
    mysql
    neo4j
    nlp fundamentals
    word2vec
    embeddings
    nltk
    spacy
    text classification
    summarization
    ner
    semantic search
    watson discovery
    watsonx.ai
    watsonx.orchestrate
    watsonx.data
    watsonx.gov
    model selection
    fine-tuning
    ci/cd for ai systems
    model and prompt versioning
    online evaluation pipelines
    offline evaluation pipelines
    observability
    cost optimization
    token management
    governance
    security
    compliance