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You will design, build, and ship agentic AI systems end to end, moving fast, putting things in front of users, and scaling what works. You sit at the intersection of product and engineering, and you treat both as your job. This is an in-office role based in Mumbai.\n\nWe are looking for someone who has already built real agent systems: orchestration, tool use, memory, and the LLM interfaces that hold it all together. You are fluent across the model landscape, comfortable switching between providers and open-source models, and you know how to get the best out of each. 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