AI Engineer

Backbase Hyderabad, India

About the role

This is an AI engineering role focused on architecting and deploying enterprise-grade AI agents at scale, based in Hyderabad. It suits an engineer with agentic application experience who is comfortable adapting software engineering practices to non-deterministic, LLM-driven systems. The role is with Backbase, a banking engagement platform provider headquartered in Amsterdam.

What you’ll do

  • Architect, build and deploy enterprise-grade AI agents that operate at scale
  • Adapt software engineering practices to manage non-deterministic agent behaviors
  • Use modern tools to accelerate agent creation
  • Design self-optimizing systems that improve through real-world usage and feedback loops
  • Collaborate with product and platform teams to identify unmet needs
  • Guide the evolution of the company's AI agent technology

What they’re looking for

  • At least three years of experience building agentic applications
  • Proficiency in Python
  • Hands-on knowledge of AI-specific architectures, retrieval-augmented generation and context engineering
  • Strong understanding of modern AI agent patterns such as MCP, A2A and ACP
  • A proactive startup mindset and strong communication skills

Questions about this role

How many years of experience do I need?

The posting requires a minimum of three years of experience building agentic applications.

Is this role remote?

The posting does not state whether the role is remote, hybrid or onsite.

How this role compares

One of 17 open AI Engineer roles we are tracking today.

This posting does not state pay. The middle of the 9 that do advertises ₹3,000,000 – ₹3,500,000 a year.

Posted 3 days ago, with 3 of the others posted since and 13 still open from before.

Counted across the roles Frontrunner has open right now.

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