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Lead AI Engineer

Vahan· Engineering
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BengaluruINR 3000k - INR 6000kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Lead AI Engineer at Vahan, an AI-powered recruiter platform for India's blue-collar workforce. Located in Bengaluru, on-site. Full-time role focusing on end-to-end ownership of voice and messaging agents, evaluation suites, latency/cost optimization, and production-grade LLM/policy decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Own the outcome, not the ticket — investigate metric moves end to end and argue for the highest-leverage fix (sometimes that's doing nothing)
  • Know the funnel cold: outreach, connect, qualify, handoff, interview, placement — write your own queries
  • Own agent behaviour end to end: the loop, tool surface, context management, stop conditions, retries, and timeout handling
  • Build and defend the eval suite — every behaviour change ships behind a golden set and a regression gate
  • Fight for latency and cost — time-to-first-audio and inference cost at 100K calls/day are yours to defend
  • Work the voice pipeline — streaming ASR on code-switched Hinglish, turn detection, barge-in, graceful failure on network drops
  • Debug production non-determinism — reproduce rare failures, write postmortems, close the loop with evals
  • Use coding agents hard and well — Claude Code from Day 1

Qualifications

  • Shipped an LLM-backed system in production, with real users, long enough for it to break
  • Can trace a business metric to its root cause across any layer — as comfortable in a warehouse query as a stack trace
  • Strong async Python — you write services, not notebooks
  • Brings up evaluation before we do
  • Model-choice opinions grounded in latency and cost — and you change them when shown better numbers
  • Fluent with coding agents; can name the last time one confidently produced something wrong and how you caught it
  • Can explain a technical trade-off to a recruiter or ops lead without dumbing it down
  • Learns fast in public

Skills

Required:PythonLLMsAI Agents
Nice to have:RAGFine-tuning

Benefits

  • Not explicitly listed in the description
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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