Senior AI Platform Engineer

Role overview

Senior AI Platform Engineer at Netcore Cloud

As a Senior Software Engineer on the AI Platform team, you will design, build, and operate the core infrastructure that powers AI capabilities across Unbxd's products.

Responsibilities

• You’ll work on large-scale backend systems while exploring and productionizing the latest advancements in Generative AI, Agentic AI, vector search, and multimodal retrieval.
• Your work will include:
• Designing and building scalable AI platform services and backend systems.
• Developing agentic workflows using modern LLM frameworks.
• Developing services around embedding models, reranking models, and multimodal search.
• Exposing AI models and algorithms as highly available internal services (ISVCs/APIs).
• Designing systems for model lifecycle management, inference, experimentation, and evaluation.
• Building orchestration frameworks for AI workflows and long-running jobs.
• Improving observability, reliability, scalability, and performance of AI infrastructure.
• Collaborating closely with Search, Product, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams to ship production-ready AI features.
• Driving architecture discussions and owning services end-to-end.
• What we're looking for

Required qualifications

• ✔ 5+ years of experience building large-scale backend or platform systems.
• ✔ Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages:
• Java/ Python/ Golang
• ✔ Strong understanding of:
• Distributed Systems
• System Design
• Scalability
• Performance Optimization
• Concurrency
• ✔ Experience designing and operating microservices in production.
• ✔ Hands-onexperience with containerized deployments using:
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• ✔ Experiencewith asynchronous systems such as:
• Kafka
• RabbitMQ
• Event-driven architectures
• ✔ Experience building REST/gRPC APIs and production backend services.
• ✔ Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures.
• ✔ Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• ✔ Ability to independently own services and drive projects from design through production.
• AI Platform Experience
• Candidates should have hands-on experience in one or more of the following areas:
• LLM orchestration
• Agentic workflows
• Prompt engineering
• Embedding models
• Vector databases
• Semantic search
• Model evaluation
• AI workflow orchestration
• Model serving

Preferred qualifications and skills

• Practical experience building production AI systems is preferred over academic knowledge.

Employment details

• Location: Bengaluru [India]

About the employer

• About Netcore Unbxd

Additional role details

• Platform Engineer – Search, Recommendations & AI Platform
• Netcore Unbxd is an AI-powered product discovery platform recognized by Forrester and Gartner as the global leader in Commerce
• Search and Product Discovery, earning Leader status in Gartner's 2025 Magic Quadrant™ for the second consecutive year.
• We're
• trusted by billion-dollar retailers like Unilever, Waitrose, Express, Puma, Signet, and Advance Auto Parts to power conversions and
• revenue through best-in-class product discovery and personalization.
• We're at the forefront of Agentic AI in commerce — building AI
• Shopping Assistants and Autonomous Merchandising Agents that redefine how shoppers find what they want.
• Curious what it's like to work here?
• Check out Life at Netcore - Life at Netcore
• Also Please have a look at our Founder's take on where we're headed : https://www.founderthesis.com/p/rajesh-jain-and-netcore-cloud-the