Money Forward Technology/Software

AI Engineer – Innovation & Productivity (Chennai / Pune)

Chennai, India Hybrid Full-time

Experience: 12+ years in AI/ML leadership, 10+ years overall in tech

Money Forward India is looking for a visionary and hands-on **AI Engineer** to drive innovation, productivity, and strategic alignment across global engineering, product, and stakeholder teams. This role blends deep technical expertise with cross-functional leadership to accelerate feature development, promote AI adoption, and shape the future of intelligent systems within our organization.Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for, but not limited to, the following key tasks:

Own the AI SDLC for Product Features

Strategic Definition: Define use cases, scope, success metrics, and release gates.

Context Engineering: Design context strategy (structured inputs, retrieval/RAG, redaction).

Architecture & Logic: Build prompt and agent designs with clear tool usage, boundaries, and fallbacks.

Quality Assurance: Create evaluation plans (golden sets, rubrics, automated regression tests).

Lifecycle Management: Support rollout, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

Build AI Features Across Multiple HR SaaS Products

Integration: Incorporate AI into core user journeys (onboarding, employee comms, policy Q&A, document generation, support workflows).

Scalability: Maintain reusable prompt/agent patterns across teams and products.

Prototype Independently and Deliver Production-Ready Specs

Feasibility: Build POCs and thin vertical slices to prove feasibility and user value

Documentation: Convert POCs into production specs: interfaces, constraints, failure modes, and acceptance criteria.

Guide Engineers to Productionize AI Behavior

Implementation: Translate product intent into implementable AI specs and review implementations.

Optimization: Help debug model behavior, tool failures, and edge cases.

Best Practices: Drive adoption of prompt versioning, eval harnesses, and monitoring.

Use and Extend Money Forward’s In-house AI Platform

Development: Build with internal models, orchestration frameworks, and shared components.

Platform Growth: Propose improvements for prompt management, eval tooling, logging, and guardrails.

Requirements

Required Technical Expertise

AI / ML Domains

Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning

Agentic AI systems and multi-agent orchestratio

Anomaly Detection, Recommender Systems

AI-assisted engineering (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot-style workflows)

Prompt Engineering, Context Engineering, RAG

Frameworks & Libraries

Core ML / CV / NLP

TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, Scikit-learn

OpenCV

Pandas, NumPy

LLMs & Transformers

Hugging Face Transformers

GPT, BERT, T5, LLaMA

YOLO, GANs

Agent & LLM Orchestration

LangChain, LangGraph

CrewAI

LlamaIndex

DeepEval, LangSmith

Databases & Data Stores

  • Vector Databases: FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus
  • Relational Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL
  • Graph Databases: Neo4j

NLP & Language Technologies

NLP fundamentals, Word2Vec, embeddings

NLTK, SpaCy

Text classification, summarization, NER, semantic search

IBM Watson Suite

Watson Discovery

Watsonx.ai

Watsonx.orchestrate

Watsonx.data

Watsonx.gov

AI/LLM SDLC, Deployment & Operations

  • Model selection, fine-tuning, and prompt iteration
  • CI/CD for AI systems
  • Model and prompt versioning
  • Online and offline evaluation pipelines
  • Observability (logs, traces, metrics)
  • Cost optimization and token management
  • Governance, security, and compliance

Preferred Experience

  • Experience leading AI initiatives in SaaS or enterprise platforms
  • Strong product mindset with ability to balance UX, reliability, and cost
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers and AI practitioners
  • Proven track record of taking AI systems from idea → production → scale

Benefits

Why Join Us?

At Money Forward India, you'll be part of a dynamic, growth-oriented environment where innovation thrives. Our culture fosters collaboration, creativity, and professional development. Join us to be at the forefront of SaaS technology, with the security of an established corporate and the agility of a startup.

Startup-like Work Environment & Culture

  • Flexible Work Hours & Hybrid Work Policy (WFH 2 days a week)
  • Leaves: Casual, Earned, and Sick leaves
  • Up to 6 months of Maternity Leave
  • Casual Dress Code (Shorts, Slippers, Sandals: All OK!)
  • Corporate Health Insurance (Covering spouse, kids, and parents)
  • Performance Review Twice a Year (Salary can be increased twice)

Performance-Based Bonus

Global Work Environment

MacBook for All Employees

Chance to Visit Japan & Vietnam Offices on Business Trip

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