Artificial Intelligence Engineer

AI ENGINEER

Who We Are?

Cleantech Industry Resources accelerates solar, wind, green hydrogen, battery storage, and EV infrastructure projects across the United States, India, and EMEA markets. The company provides turnkey "Development as a Service," powered by 100% internal systems engineering and a world-class team that comes out of some of the most reputed organizations in the renewables industry. This team operates within a sophisticated software and AI environment to support projects from land origination, through to commercial operation.

Location of Position:

• Chennai

What We Offer

• Opportunity to join a top-notch, collaborative team of professionals
• Fantastic team environment and collaborative culture
• Professional development opportunities to grow into an industry leader
• Medical Insurance for the employee and family
• Spot Recognition bonus for exceptional performance
• Long Term Incentive policy
• Regular team outings, events, and activities to foster a positive work environment

Our Commitment to Diversity

At CIR, we are dedicated to nurturing a diverse and equitable workforce that truly reflects our community. We deeply value each persons unique perspective, skills, and experiences. CIR embraces all individuals, regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or nationality. We are steadfast in our commitment to fostering a just and inclusive world through intentional policies and actions. Your individuality enriches our collective strength, and we strive to ensure everyone feels respected, valued, and empowered.

Position Summary

We are looking for an AI Engineer to lead the design, development, and deployment of AI-powered applications and intelligent agents tailored for the renewable energy sector. The role sits at the intersection of applied AI, software engineering, and domain expertise, and will drive the next generation of our internal and market-facing products.

Building on the success of our existing platforms, the AI Engineer will play a central role in advancing our shift toward agentic, AI-native solutions, enabling smarter automation, faster decision-making, and measurable productivity gains across the organization.

Core Responsibilities

• AI Solution Development: Design, develop, and deploy AI/ML and Generative AI solutions across internal tools and customer-facing products.
• Agentic Application Development: Build specialized, domain-aware agents for the renewable energy sector to automate technical, commercial, and analytical workflows.
• Model Strategy & Usage: Evaluate, integrate, and optimize the use of foundation models (LLMs, multimodal, and domain-specific models) across applications, balancing performance, cost, and reliability.
• AI Adoption & Enablement: Drive AI adoption across the organization by identifying high-impact use cases, building proof-of-concepts, and enabling teams to embed AI in day-to-day workflows.
• Productivity & Automation: Develop AI-driven tools, copilots, and automations that improve efficiency for engineering, design, project development, and business teams.
• System Architecture: Architect scalable, production-ready AI systems including data pipelines, APIs, model serving, monitoring, and feedback loops.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, software engineers, domain experts, and leadership to translate business needs into robust AI solutions.
• Quality, Safety & Governance: Implement responsible AI practices including evaluation frameworks, guardrails, data privacy, and governance.
• Innovation & Research: Stay current with advancements in AI/ML, agentic frameworks, and tooling, and translate them into actionable opportunities for the company.

Educational and Technical Skills

• Bachelors or masters degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, data science, engineering, or a related field.
• Any additional credentials that reflect an ability to operate out of the box such as having background in finance, operations, strategy will be considered a plus

Preferred Skills

Software Proficiency:

• Proven experience designing, building, and deploying AI/ML or Generative AI applications in production environments.
• Strong proficiency in Python and modern AI/ML libraries and frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Hugging Face).
• Hands-on experience working with LLMs and Generative AI (prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, evaluation).
• Experience building agentic systems using frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, or equivalent.
• Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals APIs, microservices, version control, testing, and CI/CD.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong skills in data engineering building reliable pipelines, working with structured and unstructured data, and integrating multiple data sources.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical solutions and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Renewable Energy Systems:

• Understanding of solar energy systems and their integration into existing infrastructure

Experience

• Prior experience working in or developing tools for the renewable energy, power, or infrastructure sectors.
• Familiarity with solar PV concepts, energy modeling, GIS data, or techno-commercial analysis.
• Experience with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector) and modern AI tooling for retrieval and memory.
• Exposure to MLOps / LLMOps practices model versioning, observability, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
• Experience building internal AI copilots, chat interfaces, or workflow automation tools.
• Contributions to open-source AI projects, publications, or technical writing.

Psychosocial Skills /Human Skills/Behavioural Skills

• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to take ideas and run with them from concept to conclusion.
• Technical understanding of clean energy business processes
• Exceptional verbal and writing communication skills with superiors, peers, partners, and other stakeholders.
• Excellent interpersonal skills while managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. The physical demands of this job require an individual to be able to work at a computer for most of the day, be able to participate in conference calls and travel to team retreats on a time-to-time basis. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Conditions

The work environment is usually quiet (normal city traffic noises are common), a blend of artificial and natural light, temperate and generally supports a collaborative work environment. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Cleantech Industry Resources, we embrace diversity and uphold a strong dedication to establishing an all-encompassing atmosphere for both our staff and associates. Our choices in employment are free from any bias related to race, creed, nationality, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, physical limitations, veteran status, or any other legally safeguarded attributes.

Being an integral part of Cleantech Industry Resources means you can expect to be immersed in a realm of professional possibilities within a culture that nurtures teamwork, adaptability, and the embracing of all.