Senior AI Engineer

About Us

At Turgon, we believe there is a massive opportunity to reimagine how IT services are delivered by leveraging a combination of AI agents and humans to build, integrate, and run the enterprise stack. AI agents that understand your existing infrastructure, processes, and data and can rapidly add new business logic, generate new integrations on the fly, and root cause issues instantly. That’s a $1.5T opportunity!

We are a startup based in San Francisco and New Delhi, founded by serial entrepreneurs. We are building out our core team to re-imagine and build an “AI-Native Accenture.” If you are compelled by this vision, let’s chat!

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer to take ownership of our most complex agentic workflows. In this role, you will bridge the gap between "cool demo" and "enterprise-grade reliability."

You won’t just be prompting models; you will be architecting the orchestration layer that governs them. You will be responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of our agents-from system design and prompt engineering to latency optimization, cost management, and rigorous evaluation frameworks. You will also mentor younger engineers and help define our AI engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architectural design of complex, multi-agent systems using LangGraph/LangChain that can handle long-running, asynchronous enterprise tasks.
• Own the "Evals": Design and build automated evaluation pipelines to measure agent accuracy, hallucination rates, and success metrics before deploying to production.
• Production Hardening: Optimize RAG pipelines for scale-tuning chunking strategies, retrieval algorithms, and vector search parameters for maximum relevance and speed.
• Cost & Latency Engineering: Make critical decisions on when to use massive foundation models (GPT-4) vs. smaller, specialized models to balance performance with unit economics.
• Collaborate with the Product Team to translate ambiguous business requirements ("Fix the ERP data") into concrete agentic behaviors and tool definitions.
• Mentor junior AI engineers, conducting code reviews and helping them level up their understanding of LLM application architecture.

Requirements

• 5+ years of total engineering experience, with significant recent focus on Applied AI / LLMs.
• Expert-level Python skills; you write clean, modular, and testable code.
• Deep production experience with LLM orchestration (LangChain, LangGraph, etc.) - you know where these frameworks break and how to fix them.
• Strong understanding of the modern Data Stack (SQL, Snowflake, Vector DBs); you know that good AI requires good data.
• Experience in MLOps or LLMOps (tracing, monitoring, and versioning prompts/chains).
• A pragmatic mindset: You know when to use a simple heuristic and when to deploy a complex agent.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience fine-tuning open-source models (Llama, Mistral) for specific domain tasks.
• Background in traditional NLP or Machine Learning prior to the Generative AI boom.
• Experience with Kubeflow, Ray, or other distributed ML computing frameworks.
• Previous experience in a Founding Engineer or early-stage startup role.

Education & Certification

• We don’t actually care about qualifications as long as you are a rockstar engineer who wants to keep learning and make a massive impact.

What We Offer

• A values-aligned culture: always learning mindset, collaborative environment, and an entrepreneurial approach to getting things done.
• Competitive, flexible salary based on experience.
• Equity via ESOPs.
• Leadership role shaping AI/LLM services at enterprise scale.
• Collaborative, high-energy startup culture in South Delhi and San Francisco.
• Access to top AI researchers worldwide to drive innovation and continuous learning.
• Flexible work-from-home days balanced with on-site collaboration.