Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Company - Virginia Transformers (MNC)

*Role Purpose *

The AI Agent Developer will design, build, test, deploy, and support enterprise AI agents that automate high-value business workflows while maintaining strong data security, auditability, governance, and human approval controls. The role combines software engineering, API integration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agent orchestration, prompt/version management, and production support for internal AI solutions connected to ERP, document repositories, SQL databases, and approved enterprise systems.

*Job Title - * AI Agent Developer / Agentic AI Developer

*Department- * MIS

*Reports To- * Software Development Manager

*Location - * Delhi, IND/ Vadodara, GUJ, IND / Roanoke, VA, USA

*Employment Type - * Full-Time

Position Overview

The AI Agent Developer will be responsible for converting approved business use cases into secure, production-ready AI agents. The developer will work closely with business SMEs, ERP/application teams, data owners, infrastructure, and security stakeholders to build agents that can retrieve enterprise knowledge, call approved tools/APIs, summarize information, extract structured fields, support decisions, and automate controlled workflows with appropriate human review.

Primary Responsibilities

• *Agent design and development:

* Design agent workflows for RAG, tool-calling, workflow assistance, and multi-step business processes.

• *RAG and knowledge retrieval:

* Build ingestion, parsing, chunking, embedding, metadata, vector/semantic search, citation, and retrieval quality pipelines.

• *API and system integration:

* Develop secure connectors to ERP/GRMS, SQL databases, SharePoint, document repositories, email/workflow systems, and approved internal applications.

• *Prompt and orchestration engineering:

* Create version-controlled prompts, templates, tool definitions, validators, agent policies, memory rules, and fallback paths.

• *Security and governance:

* Implement SSO/RBAC, least-privilege access, Key Vault/secrets management, data masking, prompt-injection protection, audit logging, and human approvals for high-risk actions.

• *Testing and evaluation:

* Build unit, integration, retrieval, prompt regression, safety, access-control, load, and UAT test cases.

• *Deployment and operations:

* Containerize services, support CI/CD, manage environment configurations, monitor telemetry, troubleshoot failures, and prepare release notes/support runbooks.

• *Business collaboration:

* Work with Business Analyst, process owners and SMEs to understand rules, exceptions, inputs, outputs, acceptance criteria, and adoption needs.

• *Documentation:

* Maintain architecture notes, API specifications, data dictionaries, prompt/version records, test evidence, risk logs, SOPs, and production support documentation.

• *Standardization:

* Stay aligned with the internal development team to ensure adherence to standard practices.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong development experience in Python and/or C\#/.NET; ability to build clean, maintainable, secure application code.
• Hands-on experience with REST APIs, JSON, OAuth/authentication, service-to-service integration, and backend API design.
• Working knowledge of LLM application patterns including RAG, prompt templates, function/tool calling, structured outputs, and agent orchestration.
• Experience with at least one agent/orchestration framework such as Semantic Kernel, LangGraph, AutoGen, LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, or an approved internal framework.
• Knowledge of SQL Server/postgreSQL/MS access, data modeling basics, metadata handling, and governed data access patterns.
• Experience with Azure/AWS or comparable cloud platforms, including App Service/Container Apps/AKS/Functions, Key Vault, monitoring, and CI/CD.
• Understanding of identity and security controls: Entra ID/SSO, RBAC, managed identities, secrets management, access logging, and least-privilege design.
• Ability to write automated tests and evaluate AI outputs for accuracy, groundedness, reliability, latency, cost, and safety.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with manufacturing domain, supply chain, pricing, engineering specifications, document-heavy workflows, or enterprise application modernization.
• Experience with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Microsoft 365/SharePoint integrations, Azure API Management, Application Insights, and Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions.
• Familiarity with prompt injection risks, data leakage prevention, responsible AI review, model evaluation, and audit-ready software delivery.
• Experience developing internal tools, web portals, Teams apps, workflow automations, or integrations with legacy/business-critical applications.
• Exposure to vector databases, embeddings, hybrid search, document parsing, OCR/document intelligence, and data classification.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• At least 2 years of hands-on experience building AI/LLM applications, automation workflows, advanced integrations, or production-grade prototypes is preferred.
• Demonstrated portfolio, proof-of-concept, internal pilot, or production deployment involving AI agent, RAG, API integration, or intelligent automation is strongly preferred.

Work Environment

• Office Presence is must.
• May require collaboration across MIS, ERP, infrastructure, security, data owners, finance, sales, engineering, supply chain, and business process teams.
• After-hours support availability during planned releases, urgent production issues, or critical system integrations.