Overview

JOB TITLE: Senior AI Engineer - LLM & Conversational AI

Responsibilities

• Ethical Den is looking for a Senior AI Engineer to join our in-house AI research and product engineering team.
• You will work on a confidential technology initiative involving large language models, conversational AI, model adaptation, AI agents and real-time AI systems.
• This is a handson engineering position with technical ownership responsibilities.
• We are not looking for someone whose experience is limited to prompt engineering or basic integrations with commercial AI APIs.
• Detailed information about the project will be shared with shortlisted candidates at the appropriate stage of the hiring process and will be subject to confidentiality requirements.
• Design and improve LLMbased AI systems.
• Develop conversationalstate and contextualmemory systems.
• Design intelligent routing between different AI models and workflows.
• Build structuredoutput and toolcalling systems.
• Work closely with engineers developing retrieval and agent systems.
• Design model evaluation and regressiontesting frameworks.
• Develop reliable correction, fallback and recovery behaviour.
• Work with inference engineers to reduce latency and compute requirements.
• Participate in architecture decisions and technical reviews.

Qualifications

• Openings: 1
• Joining: Immediate to 30 days preferred
• Hugging Face Transformers
• Structured outputs
• Candidates should understand concepts such as:
• Time to first token
• GOOD TO HAVE
• Technical leadership experience

Education

• B.Tech/B.E./M.Tech/MCA/M.Sc. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science or a related field. (We are not much concerned about your college degree)
• Strong handson experience, research work or significant opensource contributions may compensate for a different academic background.
• WHO SHOULD APPLY
• Candidates who have personally built, finetuned, deployed or materially improved AI/ML systems.
• WHO SHOULD NOT APPLY
• Candidates whose experience is primarily limited to:
• Management roles without handson AI engineering
• APPLICATION DETAILS
• Please include:
• Relevant publications, if applicable
• Brief description of the most technically challenging AI project you have worked on
• CONFIDENTIALITY
• This position involves work on a confidential internal technology initiative. Selected candidates will be required to comply with Ethical Den's confidentiality and intellectualproperty policies. Detailed project information will be disclosed only at the appropriate stage of the hiring process. .