[Hiring] Lead Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Engineer @Ciklum

Role Description

Ciklum is looking for a Lead Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Engineer to join our team full-time in India. As a Lead Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.

Ciklum is seeking an AI Lead to head the AI engineering track of the project, an ambitious initiative to build an enterprise-grade Agent Development Platform (ADP). This role owns the technical decisions the entire program inherits:

• Agent framework architecture
• Evaluation strategy that governs milestone acceptance
• AI safety posture of a platform our client will commercialize to their own enterprise customers

You will lead a team of AI engineers through "Wave 1" establishing a production-ready foundation that decouples core infrastructure from individual agent business logic and set the patterns that make an agent-a-month delivery cadence achievable in year two. This is a hands-on leadership role: you are expected to architect, to review, and to write the hardest code yourself.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software/AI engineering
• 3+ years building LLM-powered systems in production
• Expert-level Python
• Demonstrated experience designing evaluation systems
• Hands-on experience with prompt-injection defense
• Proven ability to author and defend ADRs for AI systems
• Experience leading engineering teams of 4+
• Experience as the accountable technical voice in front of client CTOs/architecture boards

Requirements

• Expert-level Python; deep practical experience with at least one production agent framework (LangGraph, Claude Agent SDK, or equivalent)
• LangChain/LangSmith fluency
• Experience designing evaluation systems that gated real releases
• Hands-on experience with prompt-injection defense, tool-call authorization, and adversarial testing of LLM applications
• Production experience with tracing and cost observability
• Experience leading engineering teams of 4+ through ambiguous, milestone-driven deliveries
• Experience as the accountable technical voice in front of client CTOs/architecture boards

Benefits

• Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
• Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
• Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
• Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility
• Care: Company-paid medical insurance, mental health support, and financial & legal consultations