Senior AI Engineer

Imagine yourself…

• Growing your expertise and expanding your skillset with every project.
• Collaborating with a vibrant, inclusive, global team.
• Joining a company with a proven track record of success and an exciting future.

It’s all possible with a role at Esko. Esko, a Veralto company, is a global provider of integrated software and hardware solutions that accelerate the go-to-market process of packaged goods. Our integrated platform and comprehensive tools empower retailers, pre-media and trade shops, manufacturers, and converters to manage best-in-class packaging design and print processes.

Innovation in the is built into the DNA of our business: every day, we challenge ourselves to be better by seeking out new ways to elevate our products, our processes, and our people.

We also know that innovation and ingenuity starts with prioritizing a diverse workforce and a deeply inclusive workplace. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions.  

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the Senior AI Engineer is responsible for leading the design, optimization, and governance of Esko’s Generative AI ecosystem, enabling scalable, reliable, and production-grade AI capabilities across products. This role is in Bangalore, India on Hybrid model, with (Quarterly once visit to the office for 2 weeks).

In this role, a typical day will look like: 

• Design and scale agentic AI systems to support long-running, complex workflows using orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, or AutoGen.
• Develop systematic evaluation and benchmarking pipelines using G‑Eval, RAGAS, and LLM‑as‑a‑Judge approaches to measure performance, hallucinations, and latency.
• Implement advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) strategies, including multi-stage re‑ranking, hybrid search, and query expansion for high-precision knowledge retrieval.
• Optimize model inference performance using quantization approaches such as AWQ and GGUF, along with caching strategies for cost‑efficient high throughput.
• Collaborate closely with Data Science and DevOps teams to transition experimental prototypes into hardened, production-ready APIs.
• Implement safety guardrails, red‑teaming workflows, and alignment mechanisms to ensure outputs meet industry regulations and brand‑safety standards.

We offer

• Flexible working hours
• Professional onboarding and training options
• Powerful team looking forward to working with you
• Career coaching and development opportunities
• Health and Insurance benefits.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related quantitative field.
• Minimum of 6 years of overall software engineering experience, with at least 3 years focused on LLM application development and deployment.
• Hands-on experience with parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques such as LoRA and QLoRA.
• Strong proficiency in PyTorch or JAX.
• Expert-level experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or Haystack, along with scaling vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, or Milvus.
• Proven experience building custom evaluation datasets and tracking experiments using tools such as Weights & Biases or MLflow.
• Strong understanding of LLMOps, including CI/CD pipelines, prompt versioning, and model endpoint management.

Esko is proud to be part of the Product Quality & Innovation segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Veralto’s global network of associates, you join a culture where purpose meets possibility—where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources the world relies on. Together, we’re Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™.

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At Veralto, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve.  Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.
 

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