Lead/Principal AI Engineer

Experience: 8.00 + years

Salary: INR 9000000-10000000 / year (based on experience)

Expected Notice Period: 7 Days

Shift: (GMT+05:30) Asia/Kolkata (IST)

Opportunity Type: Remote

Placement Type: Full Time Permanent position(Payroll and Compliance to be managed by: Fincore)

(*Note: This is a requirement for one of Uplers' client - FC)

What do you need for this opportunity?

Must have skills required:

Experience building fintech software, Experience working in a large enterprise / big tech, NIT's etc.), Top-tier institutes preferred (IIT's, and collaboration skills, Communication, Expertise in API design (REST, GraphQL) and relational databases, LLM, Strong problem-solving, Node Js, Python

FC is Looking for:

About The Job

About client

At client, we’re on a mission to to build next-generation AI-native finance technology for enterprises

Our core values - ownership, customer obsession, truth-seeking, and velocity - guide everything we do

We are venture-backed and closely collaborate with seasoned technology, finance and AI leaders

We maintain a small, talent-dense team of domain experts and technologists

What We're looking for

We are seeking an extremely talented, Lead to Principal-Level AI engineer to help us pioneer the future of finance and accounting. You must have experience building high-quality, complex, yet maintainable LLM apps and agents, and you should be able to do so in a fraction of the time that most competent people think is possible (in part because of your ability to wield the latest in code generation and intuition for prompt engineering). You must have a strong ability to collaborate with customers directly to build solutions tailored to their business needs.

As a Lead AI Engineer, you will:

Architect and build the core AI platform that powers finance and accounting solutions

Design, develop, and productionize large‑scale LLMs, RAG pipelines, and autonomous agents

Define and enforce best practices for prompt engineering, model fine‑tuning, and evaluation

Mentor and grow a team of AI engineers, guiding technical design reviews and code quality

Partner closely with Product, Data, and Customer teams to translate finance use cases into robust, scalable solutions

Must-Have Skills

8+ years of experience building backend services in Python, Node.js, or similar

Deep experience and intuition with LLMs

Cutting-edge knowledge of code generation and prompting techniques

Experience building agents and tooling for agents

Expertise in API design (REST, GraphQL) and relational databases

Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills

Good to have

Top-tier institutes preferred (IIT's, NIT's etc.)

Experience building fintech software

Experience working in a large enterprise / big tech

Our Tech Stack: NextJS | Python | LangGraph | AWS | Neo4j | PostgreSQL | MongoDB

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