Assistant Vice President - AI Engineer

AI Engineer, AVP

Job Description:

Job Title: AI Engineer

Location: Pune, India

Corporate Title: AVP

Role Description

• Work in a scaled Agile working environment
• Be part of a global and diverse team;
• Contribute to all stages of software development lifecycle;
• Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code;
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by following good practices and habits
• Use frameworks like Google Agent Development Kit (Google ADK) and LangGraph to build robust, controllable, and observable agentic architectures.  
• Assist in the design of LLM-powered agents and multi-agent workflows (planning, tool use, orchestration, memory, and human-in-the-loop)
• Lead the implementation, deployment and test of multi-agent systems
• Mentor junior engineers on best practices for LLM engineering and agentic system development.
• Drive technical discussions and decisions related to AI architecture and framework adoption.
• Proactively identify and address technical debt and areas for improvement in AI systems.
• Represent the team in cross-functional technical discussions and stakeholder meetings.

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

• Design and build complex agentic systems with multiple interacting agents.
• Implement robust orchestration logic (state machines / graphs, retries, fallbacks, escalation to humans).
• Implement RAG pipelines, tool calling, and sophisticated system prompts for optimal reliability, latency, and cost control.
• Apply core ML concepts to evaluate and improve agent performance, including dataset curation and bias/safety checks.
• Lead the development of agents using Google ADK and/or LangGraph, leveraging advanced features for orchestration, memory, evaluation, and observability.
• Integrate with supporting libraries and infrastructure (e.g., LangChain/LlamaIndex, vector databases, message queues, monitoring tools) with minimal supervision.
• Define success metrics, build evaluation suites for agents (automatic + human evaluation), and drive continuous improvement.
• Curate and maintain comprehensive prompt/test datasets; run regression tests for new model versions and prompt changes.
• Deploy and operate AI services in production, establishing CI/CD pipelines, observability, logging, and tracing.
• Debug complex failures end-to-end, identifying and document root causes across models, prompts, APIs, tools, and data.
• Work closely with product managers and stakeholders to shape requirements, translate them into agent capabilities, and manage expectations.
• Document comprehensive designs, decisions, and runbooks for complex systems.

Your skills and experience

Education & experience

• 3+ years of experience as Software Engineer / ML Engineer / AI Engineer, with at least 1-2 years working directly with LLMs in real applications (not just experiments or coursework).
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Core technical skills:

Programming & software engineering

• Strong proficiency in Python (core language features, packaging, testing, async, type hints).
• Very strong software engineering practices: version control (Git), unit/integration testing, code reviews, CI/CD.
• Experience building and consuming REST/gRPC APIs and integrating external tools/services.

Machine Learning (good understanding)

• Understanding of core ML concepts: supervised/unsupervised learning, train/validation/test splits, overfitting, regularization, and common metrics (precision, recall, F1, ROC-AUC, etc.).
• Good undeerstanding of deep learning basics (neural networks, embeddings) and at least one ML/DL framework (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, scikit-learn).

LLMs & agentic AI (very strong understanding)

• Deep practical knowledge of large language models:
• Tokenization, context windows, temperature, top-p, system vs user prompts.
• Prompt engineering patterns (ReAct, chain-of-thought, tool-calling/tool-use).
• Fine-tuning / adapters / instruction-tuning, or experience with RAG as an alternative.
• Experience building LLM-powered applications end-to-end: from idea → prototype → production.
• Familiarity with safety and reliability considerations: hallucinations, guardrails, content filtering, privacy.

Agentic frameworks (required understanding, experience preferred)

• Conceptual understanding of modern agentic frameworks and patterns (stateful graphs, multi-agent coordination, human-in-the-loop, memory, and evaluation).
• Hands-on experience with at least one of:
  • Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) – building multi-agent workflows, using its orchestration, tools, and evaluation features.
  • LangGraph – designing graph-based, stateful agent workflows with cycles, branches, and durable execution.
• Candidates must be able to read, reason about, and extend ADK/LangGraph-based codebases.
• Direct production experience with both ADK and LangGraph is a strong plus.

Data & infra

• Experience working with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, Chroma) for retrieval-augmented generation.
• Comfortable with SQL and basic data modeling.
• Experience deploying on at least one major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, Azure) and using managed services (e.g., serverless runtimes, container orchestration, secrets management).

Soft skills

• Ability to translate ambiguous business requirements into concrete technical designs.
• Strong communication skills; able to explain trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfort working in an experimental environment with rapid iteration, but with a strong bias towards production quality and maintainability.

Nice-to-Have

Experience with

• Vertex AI / Gemini or other hosted LLM ecosystems.
• Related frameworks and tools: LangChain, LlamaIndex, semantic search, evaluation frameworks (e.g., RAGAS, custom eval harnesses).
• Monitoring and observability stacks (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana/NewRelic, Datadog, etc.).

Background in one or more of

• Information retrieval / search.
• NLP (beyond LLMs): classic text processing, embeddings, semantic similarity.
• Security & compliance for AI systems (PII handling, access control, audit logging).
• Contributions to open-source AI projects, blog posts, or talks about LLMs/agentic systems.

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.html

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.

Experience Level

Executive Level