Principal AI Engineer

Overview

Planso is an early-stage AI startup building enterprise AI agents and knowledge assistants for large organizations. Our founding engineering team is from IIT Madras, with deep experience in scalable, secure enterprise systems.

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What You’ll Do
• Own end-to-end architecture of our AI agents platform (ingestion → retrieval → reasoning → actions).
• Design and build LLM-powered workflows: RAG, tool-calling agents, multi-step reasoning.
• Architect and implement our knowledge layer (vector search, metadata, ranking, evaluation).
• Ship production-grade services (APIs, infra, monitoring, security, multi-tenancy).
• Work directly with founders and customers; mentor engineers and influence hiring.

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What We’re Looking For
• 7–12+ years in software/ML; 3+ years in applied NLP/LLMs/ML systems.
• Strong with Python (or similar), cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), and production APIs.
• Hands-on with LLMs, embeddings, RAG, and at least one vector DB (e.g., Qdrant, Weaviate, Pinecone, OpenSearch).
• Solid system design, performance, and reliability fundamentals.
• Comfortable in 0→1 environments, high ownership, fast iteration.

Nice-to-have: experience with knowledge graphs, LangChain/LangGraph/LlamaIndex, and enterprise knowledge assistants.

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Why Planso
• Work with a founding IIT Madras engineering team.
• High ownership, direct impact on product and architecture.
• Competitive salary + meaningful equity in an early, fast-moving startup.