Senior AI Engineer - Oakland, CA | TCS Job

Must Have Technical/Functional Skill

 Senior AI Engineer with deep, hands on expertise in Generative AI, multi agent orchestration, and LLM based systems to design, build, and scale secure, production grade AI platforms. The role requires strong engineering rigor, practical experience beyond PoCs, and the ability to operationalize agentic AI in complex enterprise environments.

Roles & Responsibilities

Core Skills & Responsibilities

Generative AI & LLM Engineering

•Strong hands on experience building LLM powered applications for reasoning, summarization, Q&A, and content generation

•Expertise in prompt engineering, prompt optimization, and systematic prompt evaluation

•Ability to generate structured and deterministic outputs for downstream consumption

•Apply grounding, response validation, and hallucination mitigation techniques

Multi Agent Orchestration & LangGraph (Must Have)

•Strong hands on experience designing and implementing multi agent AI systems

•Practical experience working with agent orchestration frameworks, specifically LangGraph

•Design and implement: 

oOrchestrator / supervisor agent patterns

oIntent routing, task decomposition, and agent sequencing

oDependency management and agent handoffs

•Implement tool calling patterns, shared context management, and output aggregation across agents

•Experience managing agent state, memory, and execution flow in production environments

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

•Build and optimize RAG pipelines across large unstructured datasets

•Hands on experience with: 

oEmbedding strategies

oVector databases and semantic search

oChunking, ranking, and metadata based retrieval

•Ensure responses are traceable, explainable, and source grounded

AI Application Engineering

•Strong backend engineering skills using Python

•Design modular, API first AI services using scalable architectures

•Integrate AI services with external systems and tools via secure APIs

•Efficient handling of long running agent workflows and asynchronous execution

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Cloud Native AI & Platform Skills

•Experience deploying AI solutions on cloud native platforms

•Familiarity with: 

oContainerized AI workloads

oCI/CD pipelines for AI and agent services

oScalable, fault tolerant system design

•Experience managing structured and unstructured data storage for AI workloads

AI Governance, Security & Reliability

•Implement guardrails and safety controls, including: 

oPrompt injection prevention

oAccess control and role based execution

oOutput validation and policy enforcement

•Support observability for: 

oAgent behavior and execution flow

oConfidence scoring and failure detection

oUsage patterns and anomaly detection

•Design AI systems that are auditable, explainable, and enterprise ready

Collaboration & Technical Leadership

•Provide technical leadership across AI and GenAI initiatives

•Review AI designs, orchestration flows, and implementation quality

•Mentor junior AI engineers on agent design and best practices

•Collaborate with architects, data scientists, and platform engineers

Required Qualifications

•Strong experience as a Senior AI / GenAI Engineer

•Proven, hands on experience with multi agent orchestration using LangGraph

•Advanced knowledge of: 

oLLMs and agentic AI systems

oRAG architectures

oPython based AI development

•Experience delivering production grade AI systems, not just experiments

Preferred Qualifications

•Experience designing large scale agent based platforms

•Exposure to LLMOps / MLOps practices

•Familiarity with model and agent evaluation techniques

•Experience working in regulated or security sensitive environments

Salary Range: $150,000-$170,000 a year

 

 

TCS Employee Benefits Summary:

Discretionary Annual Incentive.

Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.

Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.

Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.

Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & amp; Training Reimbursement.

Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.

Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.

 

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