Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer - AI Engineer

Zscaler · Bengaluru · Posted 2026-07-18

Tech stack: FastAPI, Postgres

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About the role

Responsibilities:
- We are looking for a AI Engineer to join our team.
- The position is based out at Bangalore or Mohali role, reporting to the Snr Manager, Product Business Operations in the AI Native - Product Operations Platform department.
- We are seeking a hands-on engineer to help scale the agentic layer of our platform by designing production-grade AI systems and expanding foundational capabilities.
- This role is built for a strong builder who understands modern AI systems in practice and thrives in a high-velocity, rapid-iteration environment.
- Build and scale the agentic layer of the AI Native - Product Operations Platform by designing production-grade AI systems and supporting platform capabilities
- Develop hands-on across FastAPI, NextJS, and Postgres while applying practical knowledge of RAG architectures, embeddings, and vector retrieval
- Implement standards, patterns, and guardrails to ensure AI development on the platform remains scalable, reliable, and cohesive
- Partner closely with Product and other stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions optimized for cost and throughput
- Contribute to a high-velocity delivery environment characterized by frequent releases, rapid iteration, and end-to-end execution
Qualifications:
- 8 +yrs of industry experience with demonstrated curiosity and active exploration of AI tools, with a proven history of integrating new technologies to enhance daily workflows and augment problem-solving
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong hands-on software engineering experience with FastAPI, NextJS, and Postgres, including building application stacks end-to-end
- Proven experience building and deploying agentic AI systems, RAG architectures, embeddings, and vector retrieval systems in production environments
- Familiarity with prompt engineering, orchestration patterns, agent workflows, and the implementation of evaluation frameworks or guardrails
- Comfortable operating in a high-velocity delivery environment with a track record of supporting weekly feature releases
- Experience working in a startup or fast-scaling product environment with a broad technical range across backend, frontend, and platform engineering
- Proven ability to design AI systems optimized for low cost, high throughput, extensibility, and long-term scalability
- Experience selecting and implementing AI development tools, observability frameworks, and LLM application patterns

Qualifications

- 8 +yrs of industry experience with demonstrated curiosity and active exploration of AI tools, with a proven history of integrating new technologies to enhance daily workflows and augment problem-solving
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong hands-on software engineering experience with FastAPI, NextJS, and Postgres, including building application stacks end-to-end
- Proven experience building and deploying agentic AI systems, RAG architectures, embeddings, and vector retrieval systems in production environments
- Familiarity with prompt engineering, orchestration patterns, agent workflows, and the implementation of evaluation frameworks or guardrails
- Comfortable operating in a high-velocity delivery environment with a track record of supporting weekly feature releases
- Experience working in a startup or fast-scaling product environment with a broad technical range across backend, frontend, and platform engineering
- Proven ability to design AI systems optimized for low cost, high throughput, extensibility, and long-term scalability
- Experience selecting and implementing AI development tools, observability frameworks, and LLM application patterns

Responsibilities

- We are looking for a AI Engineer to join our team.
- The position is based out at Bangalore or Mohali role, reporting to the Snr Manager, Product Business Operations in the AI Native
- Product Operations Platform department.
- We are seeking a hands-on engineer to help scale the agentic layer of our platform by designing production-grade AI systems and expanding foundational capabilities.
- This role is built for a strong builder who understands modern AI systems in practice and thrives in a high-velocity, rapid-iteration environment.
- Build and scale the agentic layer of the AI Native
- Product Operations Platform by designing production-grade AI systems and supporting platform capabilities
- Develop hands-on across FastAPI, NextJS, and Postgres while applying practical knowledge of RAG architectures, embeddings, and vector retrieval
- Implement standards, patterns, and guardrails to ensure AI development on the platform remains scalable, reliable, and cohesive
- Partner closely with Product and other stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions optimized for cost and throughput
- Contribute to a high-velocity delivery environment characterized by frequent releases, rapid iteration, and end-to-end execution

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