AI Engineer at Hyperproof in India

Job description

• You are an AI Engineer who is passionate about building advanced, intelligent services and systems. You have hands-on experience designing and delivering AI applications, managing agents, and optimizing vector databases. You understand that the customer experience is critical, and AI features must deliver business value in order to be worthwhile. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, possess a deep understanding of constraint spaces and AI safety guardrails, and are excited to develop reliable AI-centric features that redefine how users interact with our platform.

Responsibilities

• Build and Manage Agents: Design, deploy, and manage AI agents using modern agentic technologies, ensuring robust performance within defined constraint spaces and safety guardrails.
• RAG Optimization: Develop and manage complex RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines, actively tuning and optimizing for high recall and precision.
• Spec-Driven Development: Partner closely with product managers to translate industry requirements into technical specifications, utilizing spec-driven development to build reliable AI features.
• Model Integration & Evals: Work with foundation models via APIs to enable use cases like document summarization and intelligent search. Establish and apply evaluation design patterns to rigorously test, measure, and improve model outputs.
• Backend Architecture: Design and code robust backend architecture components heavily utilizing Postgres, REST APIs, queueing, storage systems, RBAC, encryption, and security.
• Quality & Operations: Write automated tests, manage version control and collaborative workflows via GitHub, and build monitoring and system health metrics.
• Continuous Learning: Stay up-to-date with AI advancements to ensure our engineering practices remain at the leading edge of AI adoption.

Requirements

• 4+ years of software engineering experience, including 18+ months working directly on AI-powered features, agents, or applications.
• Deep, practical experience using Claude Code.
• Hands-on experience building AI applications and integrating LLM-based features in production.
• Strong familiarity with RAG architectures (recall and precision metrics) and vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate).
• Proven ability to build and manage AI agents, with a solid understanding of agent technologies, constraint spaces, and evaluation design patterns.
• Strong proficiency in backend development, featuring deep experience with Postgres and asynchronous programming (e.g., Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Go, and/or Java).
• Experience managing codebases and collaborative workflows using GitHub.
• Experience working with REST APIs using JSON and delivering scalable, reliable, maintainable software.
• Familiarity with Azure and/or AWS for deployment, debugging, and operations.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related field.

Skills

Required

• Claude Code
• RAG architectures
• Postgres
• GitHub
• REST APIs with JSON
• Azure and/or AWS

Benefits

• Please note: Benefits listed below are for employees in the United States; contractor roles or international positions may differ
• Annual compensation reviews + equity
• Unlimited PTO: strongly encouraged to unplug and recharge
• Health: coverage for medical, dental, and vision - employee and dependents
• 401K, which vests immediately, complete with a 4% company match
• 12 weeks of Parental leave and 1 year free diapers and wipes with Honest
• Annual company in-person events and quarterly in-person connects
• $500 home office stipend - at the time of hire. Any additional home office needs are requested as needed.
• $100 quarterly paid wellness stipend
• Pet insurance discount
• Slack channel notifications turn off after 5 pm based on your time zone
• Two Hypercharge weeks of rest where we close company-wide (July & Dec)
• It’s an exciting time to be at Hyperproof — we recently raised $40 million in our Series B financing, further cementing Hyperproof as the emerging leader in the risk and compliance management space.
• At Hyperproof’s core are our passionate team members who focus on user experience, beautiful design, and evangelize a positive social impact of our cloud based platform. We help organizations streamline their risk and compliance workflows so our customers can spend more time strategically managing programs and less time wrangling spreadsheets.
• We are disrupting the governance, risk, and compliance software space with our innovative platform by helping traditionally unsung heroes (compliance professionals) do the right things so the wrong things don’t happen.
• Learn more about the @hyperproof culture and how it all started.
• ₹2,137,000 - ₹3,000,000