Senior Software Engineer

Job Title: GenAI Engineer

Location: Gurgaon (in Office 5 days)

Experience: 5+ years of industry experience, including a minimum of 2 years building production-grade Gen AI applications.

Overview:

Nykaa is accelerating its Gen AI journey to elevate customer experiences, streamline operations, and spark innovation across the platform. We're scaling with a high-impact, cross-functional team focused on rapid experimentation and enterprise enablement. As a GenAI engineer, you’ll be at the forefront—translating ideas into scalable solutions with bold execution. This role offers a rare opportunity to move fast, build with purpose, and amplify capabilities across the company in close collaboration with product, engineering, and business teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end AI application development—from idea conception to production deployment.
• Embrace a boundaryless approach to technology across backend, frontend, automation and data pipelines.
• Design and fine-tune LLM prompts, embeddings, and AI agents tailored to domain-specific use cases.
• Build solutions that are scalable, secure, cost-efficient, and privacy-conscious.
• Implement robust testing to prevent prompt drift, hallucinations, and model regressions.
• Maintain high standards in code hygiene, CI/CD practices, and documentation.
• Collaborate with analysts and engineers to ensure data quality and pipeline readiness.
• Formulate and validate hypotheses by engaging directly with stakeholders.
• Champion rapid prototyping—build fast, fail fast, and learn faster.
• Apply lean experimentation to test ideas before committing deep resources.
• Engage cross-functionally with Product, Design, Business, Security, and Legal to help solve real-world problems.
• Contribute to a culture of learning through tech blogs, internal POCs, demos, and workshops.
• Stay current with evolving GenAI trends, tools, and advancements, and evaluate new opportunities for integration.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, with strong expertise in backend systems and scalable architectures.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience building GenAI applications like AI bots, AI agents using tools like AWS Bedrock, LangChain, RAG pipelines, Agent-based frameworks, vector databases, LLM, Model training, NLP etc.
• Proficient in Python and familiar with modern ML/AI libraries and frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience in developing LLM-based applications, including prompt engineering, performance tuning, and optimization.
• Deep understanding of data privacy, security, and cost-aware system design in AI applications.
• Strong understanding of working with both structured and unstructured data, including retrieval and transformation.
• Proven ability to work across disciplines—product, design, business, and engineering—in fast-moving environments.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS).
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with a bias toward action and learning.

Nice to Have

• Contributions to open-source GenAI tools or a strong portfolio of personal AI side projects.
• Exposure to frontend technologies and ability to contribute across the stack for end-to-end ownership.