Senior Software Engineer, AI Systems

Department: Information Technology

Location: APAC-India-IT Delivery Center Hyderabad

Description

About this Opportunity

As a Senior Software Engineer – AI Systems, you will design, build, and optimize AI-powered agentic systems that solve complex business challenges using large language models (LLMs) and machine learning (ML). This role blends strong software engineering fundamentals with emerging AI system design — creating scalable, performant, and intelligent digital solutions.

You'll work closely with cross-functional partners across engineering, SQA, product, IT, and business teams to integrate AI capabilities into Align's digital platforms. This is a hands-on development role that requires both architectural thinking and practical coding expertise.

Role expectations

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop AI-powered software systems that integrate and manage LLM Agents.
• Build and optimize data pipelines, context stores, and APIs for high-performance AI workflows.
• Implement and fine-tune machine learning models and support their deployment into production environments.
• Engineer the context management layers that enable effective prompt orchestration and memory for LLMs.
• Integrate AI systems seamlessly with Align's existing platforms and digital products.
• Contribute to the architecture, code quality, and scalability of the overall AI systems stack.
• Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to deliver AI-driven features.

Mentor and coach team members on AI, ML, and modern software engineering practices.

Required Qualifications

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related technical field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, including full lifecycle application development.
• Strong proficiency with Next.js, Node.js, React.js,SQL, Python
• Experience with AI Agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, or custom orchestration tools).
• Demonstrated ability to design and optimize data structures and system architectures for performance and scalability.
• Understanding of context engineering and prompt optimization for LLM-based systems.
• Experience building APIs, microservices, or distributed systems in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

Hands-on familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot or Cursor.

Preferred Attributes

• Curiosity to rapidly experiment and implement creative AI-driven solutions.
• Systems Thinking — ability to design, connect, and tune complex end-to-end architectures.
• Visual Modeling — able to translate complex system ideas into clear diagrams and concepts.

Comfortable operating in fast-paced, iterative environments where ambiguity drives innovation.

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Equal Opportunity Statement

Align Technology is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities in all our practices, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other legally protected category. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the country for which they are applying, and employment eligibility will be verified as a condition of hire.