{"id":2772830,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ust-lead-i-ml-engineering-3","title":"Lead I - ML Engineering","company":{"id":1774626,"name":"UST","domain":"ust.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/ust-com","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"RippleHire","truth_index":null},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Bengaluru, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":28000,"max_usd":71000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":34},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Anthropic","optional":false},{"name":"Context Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Function Calling","optional":false},{"name":"Human-in-the-Loop","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"LLM Guardrails","optional":false},{"name":"Model Context Protocol","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Tool Use","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI Agents SDK","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-06-02T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-17","last_verified_at":"2026-10-17T16:24:56Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":137,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":137},"description":"We are seeking a high-output Software Engineer to build production-grade AI agents, agent connectors, and supporting infrastructure for enterprise workflows. This role is focused on agent systems engineering, not pure model training. The work centers on building the body around the model: tools, connectors, memory, context management, orchestration, evaluation, and controlled execution. Current agent stacks increasingly depend on tool use, session/state handling, tracing, and sandboxed execution rather than model tuning alone.\nA critical requirement for this role is that the engineer must also be AI-augmented in how they work. We are not looking for someone who merely builds AI systems in a traditional way. We want an engineer who already uses AI to perform 80-90% of the software engineering workflow - requirements shaping, design, code generation, debugging, testing, documentation, and iteration while applying engineering judgment to validate, correct, and productionize the output. This role is about speed, leverage, and practical delivery.\nRole Objective\nDesign and deliver agentic systems that can perform meaningful work with minimal human intervention, while enabling the engineer to use modern AI tooling to compress end-to-end engineering cycle time. The engineer will build agents that can reason over context, use tools, call enterprise systems, persist state, learn from prior interactions, and operate safely inside governed cloud environments. Modern agent implementations now commonly rely on handoffs, tools, traces, sessions, and controlled sandboxes to do exactly this.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign and build AI agents that automate meaningful end-to-end workflowsEngineer agent body components including:enterprise connectors and APIstool calling layerspersistent memory and session/state handling\ncontext management, retrieval, and skills/pattern libraries\norchestration across single-agent and multi-agent flows\nevaluation, tracing, and guardrails\nBuild connectors to enterprise platforms, data stores, documents, and operational systems using standardized tool and protocol patterns where appropriate, including MCP-style integrations. MCP is an open protocol for exposing tools, resources, and prompts to LLM applications.\nCreate robust cloud-native services to support agent execution, logging, observability, access control, and controlled deployments.\nImplement persistent and short-term memory patterns so agents can retain useful context without becoming noisy or brittle. OpenAI s current guidance explicitly highlights sessions, trimming, and compression as important context-engineering patterns for long-running agents.\nBuild and refine workflows for agent handoffs, tool selection, safe action execution, and human-in-the-loop approval where required. Both OpenAI and Anthropic now describe simple, composable agent workflows and tool-based systems as the practical path to effective agents.Prototype quickly, test aggressively, and move the strongest agent patterns into stable internal use.Use AI directly in your own engineering workflow to accelerate requirements interpretation, system design, coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and iteration.Required Qualifications\nStrong experience in software engineering, with a track record of building production-quality systems.Demonstrated hands-on experience building AI agents or agentic applications with tools, workflows, orchestration, or autonomous execution patterns.Strong experience with Python and/or TypeScript for backend or agent-system development.Experience with cloud infrastructure and modern deployment patterns across one or more major cloud platforms.Experience building connectors to APIs, databases, file systems, enterprise tools, or SaaS products.Experience with memory/state handling, context engineering, retrieval, or knowledge-grounded agent behavior. Persistent context and memory management are now treated as core implementation concerns in production agent systems.Experience with observability, debugging, tracing, or evaluation of complex application behavior. Agent tracing is now a formal capability in current agent SDKs.Strong judgment in separating what should be handled by prompts, retrieval, deterministic code, memory, or workflow design.Critical Capability: AI-Augmented Engineering\nThe successful candidate must already operate as an AI-augmented engineer. We expect the engineer to:\nuse AI for the majority of day-to-day engineering workmove from concept to prototype rapidly using AI-assisted design and implementationvalidate, correct, and productionize AI-generated output rather than handcrafting everything from scratchtreat AI as a force multiplier in coding, testing, debugging, and documentationThis is not optional. The role is explicitly intended for someone whose working style reflects the future operating model we are trying to build.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with OpenAI Agents SDK or similar agent frameworks, including tools, handoffs, tracing, and sandboxed execution. OpenAI s latest SDK capabilities include file inspection, command execution, code editing, and controlled sandbox workspaces.Familiarity with MCP or equivalent agent/tool interoperability standards.\nExperience with multi-agent or workflow-based patterns, evaluator-optimizer flows, or modular agent architectures. Anthropic s current guidance recommends simple, composable agent patterns over overly abstract frameworks.\nExperience with secure execution environments, sandboxing, and human-in-the-loop safeguards. MCP guidance also emphasizes visible tool invocation and the ability for humans to deny tool actions.\nExposure to ML engineering is helpful, but this is not primarily a model-training position.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nAgent prototypes can be built in days, not months.\nConnectors and tools are reliable enough that agents can do useful work, not just generate text.\nMemory and context are engineered so agents stay coherent over long-running workflows.\nThe engineer personally demonstrates exceptional productivity by using AI as the primary development accelerator.Internal users begin to see real autonomous or semi-autonomous outcomes, not just demos.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6213,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","IT Consulting & Digital Transformation","IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-17T06:55:26Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":7,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.233,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":137,"expected_fill_days":14,"reasons":["conf:2","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T18:49:33Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ust-lead-i-ml-engineering-3","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ust-lead-i-ml-engineering-3.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-17T18:49:33Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1813,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-18T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1774626},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1774626"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fust-lead-i-ml-engineering-3"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fust-lead-i-ml-engineering-3"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fust-lead-i-ml-engineering-3"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/ust-lead-i-ml-engineering-3\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fust-lead-i-ml-engineering-3"}]}