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Sr. AI Engineer

Bangalore, India; Hyderbad, India

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About Commvault 

Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience. The company empowers customers to uncover, take action, and rapidly recover from cyberattacks – keeping data safe and businesses resilient. The company’s unique AI-powered platform combines best-in-class data protection, exceptional data security, advanced data intelligence, and lightning-fast recovery across any workload or cloud at the lowest TCO. For over 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations and a vast partner ecosystem have relied on Commvault to reduce risks, improve governance, and do more with data. 

Senior AI Engineer
The senior-most builder. You own the platform every other AI engineer builds on — architecture, roadmap, and the reference code, written by you.

01 The role
You are a Senior-level individual contributor - no direct reports. You lead through architecture and code, not 
through a team. You own the shared platform the rest of AI Engineering builds on: the agent runtime, the 
orchestration framework, the shared services, the golden paths, and the standards everyone codes against.
You set technical direction by shipping reference implementations, not slide decks. When a hard problem shows 
up — a new agent pattern, a scaling wall, a reliability gap — you are the one who prototypes the answer and turns 
it into something the team can reuse.

02 What you’ll own
▪ Own the platform architecture end to end - agent runtime, orchestration, shared services, and the abstractions 
that let every other engineer move fast without reinventing the core.
▪ Own the technical roadmap - sequence the platform work, make the build-vs-buy calls, and defend the tradeoffs 
to engineering and business leadership.
▪ Write the reference implementations - the first real version of each new capability, production-grade, that the 
team then extends and specialises.
▪ Set and enforce standards - coding, evaluation, security, cost, and observability. You codify them as libraries and 
templates, not documents nobody reads.
▪ Solve the hardest problems personally - scaling limits, non-deterministic failure modes, latency and cost ceilings, 
cross-agent coordination.
▪ Design for safe autonomy at platform level - guardrail primitives, approval-gate patterns, and hard limits that 
every agent inherits by default.
▪ Raise the engineering bar - review the critical designs and PRs, mentor through code, and make the strong 
engineers around you stronger. Influence, not authority.
▪ Tie the platform to business outcomes - faster delivery, lower run-cost, higher reliability - and report the 
leverage the platform actually created.

03 What you bring
▪ Deep fundamentals - algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, and system design at a level you can 
defend under pressure.
▪ A track record of owning platforms or frameworks that other engineers built on - not just features.
▪ Production AI depth - you have shipped LLM/agent systems to real users and operated them, not just 
prototyped.
▪ The judgement to say no - you kill complexity that will not pay off and keep the platform simple enough to 
maintain.
▪ Influence without a title - you align senior engineers through the quality of your thinking and your code.
▪ Intellectual honesty about AI limits and patience with non-determinism - you engineer around failure modes 
systematically.
▪ Clear executive communication - you make architecture and tradeoffs legible to non-technical leadership.

04 The stack
Core Engineering · Must have
Deep OOP (Python, C# or Java), REST & event-driven API design, async & concurrency, Azure Functions / App Service (or 
GCP / AWS equivalent), Service Bus, SQL & data modelling, Git · CI/CD, testing, system design at scale
AI & Platform · Must have
Azure OpenAI / LLM APIs, agent runtime & orchestration design, LangChain / LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, tool use / 
function calling, RAG at scale, MCP servers & tools, multi-agent patterns, A2A protocols, AI security & robustness
Operations & Governance · Must have
Guardrail & autonomy-limit frameworks, human-in-the-loop design, drift & hallucination monitoring, prompt / model 
version management, token cost control, eval & regression frameworks, outcome instrumentation
Bonus · Nice to have
Vector DB internals, LLM observability, fine-tuning, multimodal AI, Salesforce / Dynamics 365 / Gainsight, IaC, Azure Data 
Factory, TypeScript / Node.js

05 How we hire
▪ 01 · HR – Screen: Communication, culture fit, work ethic.
▪ 02 · HackerRank Test. 85% is the cutoff percentage.
▪ 03 · Tech – Build with us: Platform architecture deep-dive + live coding on a hard agent/scaling problem with 
Rama Mahendravada. Video on, computer & solid internet required.
▪ 04 · HR – Final round: Offer & wrap-up.


Show us something you’ve shipped.
A GitHub repo, a deployed system, or a detailed write-up of a real project beats any certification. If clean code and 
hard problems are your thing - you belong here

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