AI Engineer

Ford Motor Company Chennai, India

Chennai, India Mid levelHybridFull-time ₹2,400,000 – ₹3,400,000 a year

About the role

This is an AI engineer role at Ford Credit Services in Chennai, building agentic AI applications and enterprise knowledge systems, worked hybrid. It suits an engineer with 4+ years of software or AI engineering experience who wants to work across the full stack of agentic workflows, RAG pipelines and LLM applications. The role spans architecture through deployment and optimization of production AI services.

What you’ll do

  • Design, build and maintain agentic and multi-agent AI systems for business workflows
  • Develop scalable backend services and APIs supporting AI-powered applications
  • Build and maintain RAG pipelines, retrieval systems and enterprise knowledge platforms
  • Implement evaluation frameworks to measure quality, reliability, safety, latency and cost
  • Establish monitoring, tracing, security and governance practices for production AI services
  • Collaborate with product, engineering and business stakeholders
  • Evaluate emerging AI models, frameworks and tools
  • Contribute to architecture decisions and engineering best practices

What they’re looking for

  • 4+ years of software engineering and/or AI engineering experience
  • Proven experience delivering production-grade software and AI applications
  • Hands-on experience building agentic applications with tool usage and orchestration
  • Experience with asynchronous programming, API development and containerized applications
  • Experience with LLM-based applications, RAG architectures, vector databases and model evaluation
  • Experience deploying secure, scalable applications in cloud environments

Nice to have

  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform, Vertex AI and Gemini
  • Experience with observability platforms such as LangSmith, Phoenix or OpenTelemetry
  • Experience building full-stack AI applications using React, Next.js and TypeScript
  • Knowledge of CI/CD and modern DevOps practices
  • Experience working in enterprise-scale AI environments

Questions about this role

Is this role remote or on-site?

It's a hybrid role based in Chennai.

How much does it pay?

The posting lists a range equivalent to $28.9K-41.0K per year.

How many years of experience do I need?

4+ years of software engineering and/or AI engineering experience.

How this role compares

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

This one advertises ₹2,400,000 – ₹3,400,000 a year. The middle of the 9 that state a figure advertises ₹3,000,000 – ₹3,500,000 a year.

Posted today, and nothing like it has been posted since and 16 still open from before.

Counted across the roles Frontrunner has open right now.

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