Overview

We're looking for a Senior Al Engineer - India This role is Office Based, Hyderabad Office

Responsibilities

• Job Title: Senior AI Engineer
• Company: Cornerstone OnDemand
• Product Line: Workforce AI
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Cornerstone OnDemand is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to build AI-native products within our Workforce AI product line. This role is designed for an engineer who builds systems with artificial intelligence at the core, not as an add-on—owning architecture, prompt engineering, model integration, and production-scale delivery.
• You will work closely with Product, UX, and Platform Engineering teams to deliver scalable, trustworthy AI capabilities that power Cornerstone’s workforce intelligence solutions.
• Design and implement AI-first architectures, where machine learning and generative AI are foundational system components.
• Build and productionize ML and Generative AI workflows, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), evaluation, and iteration.
• Develop end-to-end AI features, from data ingestion and feature engineering to inference and feedback loops.
• Partner with Product and UX teams to shape AI-driven user experiences, ensuring usability, explainability, and trust.
• Design, develop, and optimize prompt strategies for large language models to ensure accuracy, consistency, and relevance in production use cases.
• Implement prompt versioning, experimentation, and A/B testing to support rapid iteration and data-driven improvements.
• Continuously evaluate and refine prompts using offline evaluation, automated testing, and live telemetry to reduce hallucinations and improve output quality.
• Optimize prompt and model usage to balance response quality, latency, and cost efficiency at scale.
• Collaborate with UX and Product to align prompt behavior with user intent, tone, and experience expectations.
• Develop scalable backend services using Java and/or Python, deployed in AWS cloud environments.
• Design and optimize API-driven architectures that integrate AI services securely and reliably across the platform.
• Work with SQL and NoSQL databases to support transactional and analytical workloads.
• Apply strong engineering fundamentals around performance, reliability, observability, and security.
• Contribute to architectural decisions that ensure long-term scalability and maintainability.
• Provide technical leadership in AI and system design discussions.
• Mentor engineers and help raise the overall AI and engineering maturity of the team.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Data Science, Platform, UX, DevOps, and Security teams.
• Influence technical roadmaps and align AI capabilities with Workforce AI product goals.
• 8–10 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java and/or Python.
• Proven experience delivering AI/ML or Generative AI systems in production.
• Hands-on expertise in prompt engineering and prompt optimization for LLM-powered applications.
• Solid experience with AWS and cloud-native system design.
• Strong working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with MLOps practices (model versioning, monitoring, evaluation).
• Background in enterprise SaaS or workforce/HR technology.
• AI at the Core: Build truly AI-native capabilities that power Cornerstone’s Workforce AI platform.
• High Impact: Influence core product architecture and AI strategy at enterprise scale.
• Collaboration: Work alongside experienced product, UX, and engineering leaders.
• Our Values:
• Shatter Boundaries
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