Senior AI Engineer – GenAI Startup (Chennai)
OSpectra AI
5 - 10 years
Chennai
Posted: 29/01/2026
Job Description
Were building a next-generation GenAI product for the US market. Early-stage, well-funded, zero bureaucracy.
Founded by a proven serial entrepreneur, were looking for a Senior AI Engineer who wants to build, ship, and own AI systems in production.
20-40 L.P.A
If you like working close to the product, customers, and real problems this role is for you.
What Youll Build & Own
Design and ship production-grade GenAI features end-to-end
Build and optimize RAG pipelines using LLMs, embeddings, and vector databases
Integrate LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source models) into backend systems
Improve latency, cost, reliability, and evals for AI workflows
Work directly with founders, product, and US stakeholders
Write clean, scalable code not POCs that die in notebooks
Influence architecture, tooling, and AI best practices
What Were Looking For
59 years of software engineering experience
Strong hands-on experience with AI / ML / GenAI in production
Solid understanding of LLMs, embeddings, RAG, prompt orchestration, Agentic AI
Experience with vector DBs (Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, etc.)
Strong backend skills (Python preferred; APIs, async systems, data pipelines)
Cloud experience (AWS / GCP / Azure)
Startup mindset ownership, speed, and pragmatism
Why Join
Build real GenAI systems used by US customers
High ownership as a senior IC (no people management required)
Work directly with decision-makers no layers
Exposure to cutting-edge AI stacks in real production environments
Fast growth path to Staff / Principal AI Engineer
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