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We serve 100+ enterprise customers across fintech, life sciences, healthcare, and manufacturing across four geographies.\nWe build production-grade AI systems that run at enterprise scale - not pilots, not proofs of concept. Our three accelerators power everything we deliver:\nConvogent - Conversational & Voice AI\nVelogent - Agentic Workflow Automation\nKubogent - Kubernetes-Native AI Infrastructure\nAt Aivar, AI is not a bolt-on. It is how we engineer, how we deliver, and what we build.\nThe Role\nWe are hiring Senior Software Engineers and Software Engineering Leads who have completed the full SDLC the AI-native way - where agentic tools are core contributors, not assistants. You will own delivery end-to-end, work directly with enterprise customers, and contribute to Aivar's accelerator platforms across regulated industries.\nWhat You'll Do\nOwn end-to-end delivery using spec-driven agentic workflows - Requirements → Design → Tasks → Implementation → Deployment\nBuild and contribute to Convogent, Velogent, and Kubogent accelerator platforms\nLead agile delivery including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and stakeholder reporting on client-facing engagements\nManage distributed delivery teams within fixed-price, milestone-gated engagements (Lead level)\nDesign and implement Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases and RAG retrieval pipelines for enterprise customers\nBuild MCP connectors integrating requirements, GitLab, and enterprise tools into the AI-native pipeline\nImplement verification & validation hooks and automated traceability gates in regulated software pipelines\nIngest compliance and regulatory documents - DHF, traceability matrices, V&V protocols - into knowledge bases and RAG systems\nBuild developer hooks - lint, type-check, security scanning - wired into CI/CD pipelines\nMentor and guide engineers on AI-native engineering practices (Lead level)\nWhat We're Looking For\nExperience\n5+ years in software development across the full SDLC\n1+ year of end-to-end AI SDLC experience - shipped in production, not just explored\nExperience delivering on client-facing consulting engagements in regulated industries (fintech, healthcare, life sciences, or manufacturing) preferred\nAI-Native Tooling - hands-on with 2 or more, used in production:\nAmazon Kiro, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Google Gemini\nTechnical Skills\nProficient in Python, TypeScript, Java, or Go\nHands-on with AWS - Bedrock, Knowledge Bases, Agents, Lambda, EKS\nExperience with microservices, REST APIs, and GitLab / CI/CD pipelines\nUnderstanding of LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, and agentic system design\nFamiliarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) connector development\nExposure to regulated software pipelines with V&V, traceability, and compliance requirements is a strong plus\nYou're a Strong Fit If\nYou have authored steering files and spec documents as part of an AI-native SDLC\nYou have built or configured Amazon Bedrock RAG pipelines end-to-end\nYou have delivered a complete feature or module autonomously using an AI coding agent\nYou have worked with compliance or regulatory document ingestion into knowledge bases\nYou understand the real challenges of AI-native delivery - context management, agent failure modes, hallucinations - and have strategies to handle them\nWhy Aivar\nFunded startup with real enterprise customers and production deployments\nFounding team from AWS leadership\nWork at the cutting edge of AI-native engineering - the tools and practices you use here are where the industry is heading\nHigh ownership, fast-moving,","description_format":"text","description_chars":3861,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Speech & Audio AI","AI Consulting & Integration","Cloud Consulting & Migration"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T18:07:15Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":35,"reasons":["conf:4","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-26T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/aivar-innovations-senior-software-engineer-software-engineering-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/aivar-innovations-senior-software-engineer-software-engineering-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-27T05:30:59Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4842,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":158,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-28T00:00:00Z"}}}