Senior / Principal AI Engineer (Agentics + Backend) - 50L+ range
datavruti
5 - 10 years
Bengaluru
Posted: 24/12/2025
Job Description
Hiring for: A US based well funded startup building low-latency, agentic voice AI systems at production scale.
Role: AI Engineer (Agentics + Backend)
Levels: Senior 5yrs+, Principal 10yrs+
Location: Bengaluru
Type: Hybrid - 3 days Work From Office
Notice: Immediate to 30 days preferred
Salary: Based on fitment (50L+ ESOPs for Seniors, 85L+ ESOPs for Principals)
Overview:
Our client is building real-time, agentic AI systems where response time and conversational flow matter. This role is focused on pushing performance to the edge, shaving off milliseconds so interactions feel fast, natural, and human-like.
Role:
- We need someone who can help reduce end-to-end response time across an AI agent system, moving from seconds toward sub-second performance.
- Youll work closely with agent logic and backend systems that power voice-first, concierge-style conversational experiences.
- Working on LangGraph-based agent flows and backend systems
- Integrating and optimizing voice AI services (e.g. ElevenLabs, Deepgram)
- Improving perceived and actual latency across the agent pipeline
- Solving concurrency / parallel execution challenges at scale
- Supporting conversational systems where responsiveness directly impacts user experience
Requirement:
- Strong backend engineering experience
- Hands-on exposure to agent-based systems or complex conversational workflows
- Experience with voice or real-time systems where latency matters
- Comfortable reasoning about performance, concurrency, and system bottlenecks
- Has built or supported production systems, not just prototypes
What this is not
- Not a prompt-engineering role
- Not a research-only role
- Not a generic CRUD backend role
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