Staff AI Engineer

About Flipkart

Flipkart is committed to the cause of transforming commerce in India through our investments in made-in-India technology innovations, customer-centric features and constructs, a diverse category landscape and a world-class supply chain. With a customer base of over 350 million, product coverage of over 150 million across 80+ categories, focus on generating direct and indirect employment and a commitment to empowering generations of entrepreneurs and MSMEs and a sustainable growth strategy – Flipkart is maximizing for our customers, stakeholders, and the planet at large!

Flipkart is a part of the Walmart-owned Flipkart Group, which also includes group companies Flipkart Health+, Myntra, and Cleartrip. The Group is also a majority shareholder in PhonePe, one of the leading Payments Apps in India.

About the Team:

The AI Solutions Team: We are a high-velocity engineering unit with a dual mandate: to accelerate meaningful AI adoption across internal business functions and to architect the horizontal AI services that power our customer experiences.

About the role:

This is not a traditional software engineering role. We are looking for product-minded engineers native to AI—builders who obsess over user impact and can seamlessly bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI capabilities and real-world execution. When needed, we operate with Forward Deployed Engineering philosophy, not shying away from embedding directly with critical business functions, while simultaneously building the central AI capabilities that the rest of the company will run on.

You are responsible for:

• Build high-priority, end-to-end AI products from the ground up
• Leverage a hybrid #DataScience and #Backend Engineering skill set to #architect, #optimize, and scale state-of-the-art models, ranging from Flipkart LLMs to #opensource and commercial solutions
• Orchestrate complex systems rather than just writing code
• Manage the full SDLC, including database design, #APIdevelopment, UI integration, and deployment
• Build Production grade applications using #LLM's, Implement #RAG, Agentic workflows and tool use pattern
• Work in an environment that actively encourages the use of #Alagents and tools to enhance your coding and design process ⚡️
• Define the technical roadmap for the AI Transformation Org.
• Identify high-impact automation opportunities across Flipkart
• Solve the hardest engineering challenges: specific hardware specific optimizations, massive scale inference, and security/governance of AI agents.
• Influence the build-vs-buy decisions for AI tooling across Flipkart.

You should have:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years exp. Industry leader in Applied AI. Demonstrated success in transforming business processes via technology.
• Strong communication and analytical skills