Principal AI Engineer

About this role

AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies.

Job Title: AI Principal Technologist, Dev - AI Core Services Development

Location: Bangalore

Employment Type: Regular, Full-Time

Reports To: AI Senior Manager

We are looking for passionate and skilled Software Developers to join our Core AI Services team. In this role, you will help design, develop, and scale AI-enabling platform services and public APIs that are secure, reliable, and cloud-native. These services will act as foundational building blocks for AI adoption across AVEVA’s product portfolio and partner ecosystem.

You will part of a Scrum team to build innovative, standards-compliant, secure and production-grade AI capabilities, with a builder mindset - rapid prototyping and continuous improvement with agility of a start-up.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build scalable, fault-tolerant cloud-native services on Microsoft Azure, ensuring high performance and reliability.
• Develop secure, well-documented public APIs and SDKs for consumption by internal and external developers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end solutions across data pipelines, orchestration, and service APIs.
• Embed robust security controls to protect sensitive data and ensure secure access to AI services.
• Contribute to design reviews, code reviews, and architectural discussions to ensure engineering excellence.
• Mentor junior developers, encourage continuous learning, and contribute to a culture of innovation.
• Work with multiple teams to create AI solutions, which include AI model deployment, training, and AI tooling development.

AI & Cloud Expertise

• Experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs) and understanding of trade-offs between performance, cost, and capability.
• Understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), agent orchestration, prompt engineering, and tool calling.
• Experience with AI standards such as Model Context Pro...