Job title: AI Engineer

• Location: Hyderabad

About the Job:

We are looking for a Specialized AI Engineer to design, build, and optimize LLM-powered systems, including prompt-driven analytics, domain-tuned AI models, and scalable inference services for Opella’s internal decision-support and analytics platforms.

This role is highly engineering-focused, responsible for building the intelligent layer that enables business users to interact with insights, data, and systems using natural language — across commercial, finance, supply chain, digital, and consumer insights teams.

You will architect reliable conversational workflows, scalable retrieval pipelines, generative query builders, and model-augmented automation services that transform how Opella teams work and make decisions.

Main Responsibilities:

• Design and optimize prompts, system messages, domain instructions, and task-agent workflows to maximize accuracy, reliability, and interpretability.

• Build and maintain RAG pipelines including domain retrieval services, embeddings-based matching, similarity search, and knowledge extraction frameworks.

• Implement LLM model refinement using fine-tuning, prompt tuning, or domain corpus training where needed.

• Develop low-latency inference APIs and microservices using Python, FastAPI, Docker, and cloud execution environments.

• Improve performance through token budgeting, context compression, vector indexing, and cost-aware inference scaling.

• Build automated evaluation harnesses and hallucination prevention frameworks, including guardrails for enterprise AI usage.

• Collaborate with platform & security teams to ensure privacy-safe, secure, and compliant use of AI in production.

• Monitor model drift, usage patterns, and failure modes, driving continuous improvement in precision and reliability.

• Align AI outputs with governed KPIs and semantic standards, in collaboration with enterprise data architects.

About You:

You are an AI engineer with a strong ML foundation capable of designing, deploying, and optimizing large-scale AI systems. You bring:

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML engineering building production-ready systems.

• Strong programming ability in Python, with deployment experience using FastAPI, Flask, or similar frameworks.

• Practical expertise with LLMs, embeddings, RAG workflows, and vector search technologies (e.g., Pinecone, Elastic Vectors).

• Solid grounding in machine learning fundamentals, including model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and inference optimization.

• Experience building scalable inference pipelines, leveraging Docker, Kubernetes, Lambda, or serverless compute frameworks.

• Familiarity with ML lifecycle practices — monitoring, drift detection, versioning, reproducibility, and performance tuning (MLFlow, Airflow, etc.).

• Ability to build clean, reliable software, including CI/CD workflows, version control, automated testing, and secure deployment practices.

• Working knowledge of statistics, feature engineering, and domain interpretation, ideally within commercial, retail, CPG, or data-intensive environments.

• Understanding of semantic models, governed KPIs, metadata alignment, and SQL-based analytics integration (Snowflake/DBT is a plus).

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI/ML, or related fields.

• Master’s degree or certifications in AWS/GCP/Azure AI/ML, Snowflake, or Databricks are a plus.

Why us?

At Opella, you will enjoy doing challenging, purposeful work, empowered to develop consumer brands with passion and creativity. This is your chance to grow new skills and be part of a bold, collaborative, and inclusive culture where people can thrive and be at their best every day.

We Are Challengers.

We are dedicated to making self-care as simple as it should be. That starts with our culture. We are challengers by nature, and this is how we do things:

All In Together: We keep each other honest and have each other's backs.

Courageous: We break boundaries and take thoughtful risks with creativity.

Outcome-Obsessed: We are personally accountable, driving sustainable impact and results with integrity.

Radically Simple: We strive to make things simple for us and simple for consumers, as it should be.

Join us on our mission. Health. In your hands.

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