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Occasional Middle East exposure possible.\nAbout the Role\nYou will work as a senior AI engineer who embeds inside a customer's business. Your job is to learn how the business makes money, find the highest value problem, and build a working system that solves it.\n\nFour behaviors define this role:\nGo where the work happens. You work onsite with the customer, in the room where decisions are made.\nShow working software early. You build a prototype in days, not a document in weeks.\nOne person owns the outcome. You are the single point of accountability for the result.\nStay after go-live. You keep running and improving the system after launch.\n\nYou are the single point of accountability. You are not a solo builder. A full KnackLabs engineering team in Hyderabad builds and runs the production systems behind you.\n\nThis role involves extended onsite deployments at client locations in other cities, sometimes up to six months at a stretch. 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