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The ideal candidate will have strong foundations in AI algorithms, hands-on expertise with machine learning and deep learning frameworks, and a forward-thinking approach to leveraging emerging AI technologies like Agentic AI, RAG, LangGraph, LangChain, Graph Databases, and open-source LLMs.\nThis role involves designingand implementing advanced AI capabilities, building real-time data pipelines, integrating with modern cloud AI platforms, and mentoring junior engineers to deliver scalable, efficient, and impactful AI products aligned with the EdTech domain.\nKey Responsibilities:\nDesign, develop, test, and deploy AI-powered applications, workflows, and agents.\nBuild solutions using large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, APIs, vector databases, and structured data.\nTranslate business requirements into technical designs, implementation plans, and production-ready solutions.\nUse AI coding agents effectively to accelerate development, testing, documentation, and code modernization.\nDirect coding-agent workflows by providing clear specifications, context, constraints, and acceptance criteria.\nDetermine the appropriate level of agent autonomy and establish checkpoints for human review.\nReview, validate, and improve AI-generated code for correctness, security, scalability, and maintainability.\nCustomize coding-agent environments with project standards, tools, reusable instructions, and development workflows.\nIntegrate AI solutions with enterprise platforms, content repositories, data sources, and third-party systems.\nImplement evaluation, monitoring, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop processes for AI applications.\nCollaborate with architects, product managers, domain experts, QA, DevOps, and client teams.\nMaintain technical documentation and contribute reusable components, patterns, and engineering standards.\nHigh-Level Skills Required:\nStrong software-engineering fundamentals, including application architecture, APIs, databases, testing, debugging, and version control.\nProficiency in Python and/or modern application-development languages and frameworks.\nExperience building and deploying applications using large language models and generative AI.\nUnderstanding of prompting, context management, structured outputs, tool calling, RAG, embeddings, and vector databases.\nHands-on experience with AI coding agents such as Codex, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools.\nAbility to plan and direct agent workflows, manage autonomy, and review agent-generated work.\nExperience integrating AI capabilities into cloud-based and enterprise applications.\nFamiliarity with cloud platforms, containers, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and secure development practices.\nUnderstanding of AI evaluation, hallucination management, responsible AI, data privacy, and security controls.\nAbility to convert ambiguous business needs into clear technical requirements and working solutions.\nStrong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.\nWhy Join Us\nOpportunity to lead AI initiatives that shape the future of education technology.\nWork in a collaborative, mission-driven environment with a focus on innovation.\nEngage with impactful projectsand cutting-edge AI technologies.\nCompetitive salary,benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.\nEmployee Benefits\nHealth Insurance: Employee + Spouse + Two Children+ Parents\nGPA Coverage for Employee\nHybrid Work Model\nCompliance: PF and Gratuity\nAbout Academian\nWebsite:www.academian.com\nAcademian is a carve out of an existing22 years IT company - Intraedge Inc (www.intraedge.com )\nAcademian is a service,products and learningdevelopment company in\nthe education domain with a current headcount of 500+ team members.We are rapidly becoming a leading force in the education technology space.\nWe specialize in delivering innovative services, products, and learning development solutions tailored for the education sector. 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