Senior Applied AI Engineer

Location:
Hybrid | India
Experience:
8+ yrs
Posted:
2026-10-15

About Us:

Saguna Consulting partners with organizations to transform bold ideas into scalable, long-lasting solutions through a blend of strategy, technology, and execution. With a human-centered and outcome-driven approach, Saguna collaborates with product-led teams, founders, and enterprises to deliver practical, intuitive, and impactful solutions. From early-stage concepts to production-ready platforms, the company acts as a trusted advisor, builder, and long-term partner.

Overview:

We’re looking for a Senior Applied AI Engineer to take our existing FastAPI agent platform and OpenAI stack from working prototypes to a production-grade, lawyer-trustworthy immigration AI system.

Position : Senior Applied AI Engineer
Level : Senior
Employment type : Full-time (Contractual)
Reports to : Founder & CEO
Works with : VP of Technology, AI Specialist, Product, Design
Purpose : Take the existing FastAPI agent platform and OpenAI stack from working prototypes to a production-grade system.


Key Responsibilities:

The role owns the AI architecture end to end: how agents are orchestrated, how content packs drive them, how outputs are checked, and how customer data is protected.
● Own the multi-agent architecture, orchestration, and operating procedures.
● Own LLM engineering standards: model routing, structured outputs, grounding, cost and latency budgets.
● Own the evaluation system: gold sets, test harness, regression, release criteria.
● Own the AI security and privacy posture with the VP of Technology.
● Design the versioned content-pack system and its authoring tools.
● Make and document technical decisions; one named owner per task.
● Review code and mentor the engineering team. 


Required Qualifications:

Candidates must meet every item below to be considered.

Software engineering experience : 8+ years
Production LLM or agent systems : 3+ years
Multi-agent systems shipped to production : At least 1, serving enterprise customers
Primary languages : Python (expert), TypeScript (working)
Data : PostgreSQL, SQL, schema and migration design
Cloud : AWS in production
Education : BSc in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Written English : Clear technical specs and design documents


Preferred Technical Exposure:

  • Next.js 16, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui
  • Auth.js 
  • Next.js backend-for-frontend 
  • Python, FastAPI 
  • LangGraph, OpenAI 
  • PostgreSQL, Prisma 
  • Redis 
  • AWS Textract, AWS S3 
  • Playwright



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