Lead Agentic AI Engineer

Job Title - Lead AI Engineer – Specialist - ACS SONG Management Level: Level 9 - Specialist Location: Kochi, Coimbatore, Trivandrum Must have skills: GCP, Generative AI Good to have skills: AWS Bedrock/ Azure AI Foundry/ Azure OpenAI / Amazon SageMaker or other AI platform Experience: 5 -8 years of experience is required Educational Qualification: Graduation Job Summary We are seeking a Senior AI Developer / Engineer specializing in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with 5+ years of professional experience in AI/ML application development, backend engineering, data engineering, or related software engineering disciplines. The role will focus on designing, developing, and deploying production-grade Generative AI, Agentic AI, Machine Learning, and LLM-powered applications using Google Cloud technologies, with Vertex AI as the primary AI platform. The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience with Vertex AI, Gemini models, Generative AI applications, RAG, AI agents, APIs, cloud-native application development, and enterprise integrations. Experience with Agentic AI concepts such as tool calling, orchestration, memory, MCP, A2A, and multi-agent systems is highly desirable. The candidate will work closely with AI architects, data engineers, application developers, product teams, and DevOps engineers to build scalable, secure, observable, cost-efficient, and production-ready AI solutions. Experience with equivalent AI platforms such as AWS Bedrock or Azure AI Foundry is considered an additional advantage. Roles and Responsibilities • Design, build, and deploy production-grade AI, Generative AI, and Agentic AI applications on Google Cloud, primarily using Vertex AI and Gemini models. • Develop intelligent AI applications and agents capable of reasoning, retrieval, tool use, workflow orchestration, structured output generation, task automation, and enterprise system integration. • Build scalable AI application architectures integrating Vertex AI with GCP services such as BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Cloud Run, GKE, Pub/Sub, API management, databases, and enterprise applications. • Apply strong software engineering principles to develop secure APIs, microservices, AI services, data pipelines, agent tools, and reusable AI components suitable for enterprise production environments. • Design, develop, test, and deploy Generative AI, LLM, Machine Learning, and Agentic AI solutions using Google Cloud Platform and Vertex AI. • Build applications using Vertex AI, Gemini models, Vertex AI APIs, embeddings, model endpoints, prompt management, grounding, function/tool calling, and other GCP AI capabilities. • Develop AI agents capable of planning, reasoning, tool calling, information retrieval, workflow execution, memory management, and multi-step task automation. • Design and implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions using Vertex AI, embeddings, vector search, enterprise documents, structured data, semantic search, and appropriate retrieval strategies. • Build integrations between AI applications and GCP services such as BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, GKE, Pub/Sub, Secret Manager, and other cloud-native services. • Develop backend APIs, microservices, connectors, integration services, and reusable tools that allow AI applications and agents to interact securely with enterprise systems, databases, APIs, and external services. • Implement Model Context Protocol (MCP) clients or servers where applicable to provide standardized and secure access to tools, APIs, enterprise applications, and data sources. • Work with Agent2Agent (A2A) patterns or protocols for agent discovery, task delegation, inter-agent communication, and multi-agent collaboration where required. • Work with AI/LLM orchestration frameworks such as Google Agent Development Kit (ADK), LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, CrewAI, or equivalent technologies. • Evaluate and improve AI application quality across accuracy, groundedness, hallucination reduction, prompt quality, retrieval quality, latency, reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency. • Implement logging, monitoring, tracing, observability, evaluation, guardrails, and production support mechanisms for AI applications and agentic workflows. • Collaborate with architects, product owners, data engineers, backend developers, ML engineers, security teams, and DevOps teams to deliver enterprise-grade AI solutions. • Follow software engineering best practices including Git-based development, automated testing, code reviews, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, documentation, security, and production release management. Professional and Technical Skills • Minimum 6 years of professional experience in backend development, data engineering, or a combination of both. • 1–2 years of hands-on experience in Agentic AI, LLM application development, AI agents, RAG-based solutions, GenAI workflow automation, or multi-agent systems. • Strong hands-on experience developing applications and solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). • Practical experience designing, developing, and deploying Generative AI, LLM-powered, RAG, Machine Learning, or Agentic AI applications. • Experience building production-grade APIs, microservices, data pipelines, AI services, cloud-native applications, or enterprise integration solutions. • Hands-on experience with Vertex AI and Gemini models for developing enterprise AI applications. • Experience integrating AI applications with enterprise databases, APIs, document repositories, cloud services, and external systems. • Experience deploying scalable, secure, reliable, and observable workloads within cloud environments. • Hands-on experience with GCP Vertex AI and the GCP cloud platform. • Strong understanding of Agentic AI concepts such as tool calling, planning, reasoning, memory, multi-agent workflows, orchestration, autonomous task execution, and agentic workflow design. Also Google ADK experience is must. • Experience working with MCP clients, MCP servers, tool registration, tool execution, context retrieval, and secure integration of external systems with LLM applications. • Experience with A2A-based or multi-agent communication patterns, including agent discovery, capability exchange, task handoff, inter-agent messaging, and collaborative workflow execution. • Experience with LLM application frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar frameworks. • Strong programming skills in Python; experience with Java, Node.js, or other backend technologies is an added advantage. • Experience developing backend services, REST APIs, microservices, event-driven applications, or integration layers. • Good understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation, embeddings, vector search, semantic search, chunking strategies, document ingestion, and prompt engineering. • Familiarity with vector databases or search platforms such as Azure AI Search, Amazon OpenSearch, Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, Chroma, Milvus, or similar tools. • Experience with Git-based development, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, logging, monitoring, authentication, authorization, secrets management, and secure API integration. • Strong experience designing and developing scalable backend systems, services, APIs, data processing solutions, or enterprise integration layers. • Ability to integrate AI agents with databases, enterprise applications, third-party APIs, internal services, workflow systems, and external tools using protocols such as MCP where applicable. • Experience with data ingestion, transformation, validation, metadata handling, structured data processing, and unstructured document processing. • Good understanding of system design, performance optimization, error handling, observability, and production support. • Experience with AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Azure Ope