Title: AI Engineer
Location: Remote first with 30 percent travel. We either spend time on our Campuses or build with the team at our Igatpuri HQ together
About NavGurukul
We dream of a world where every learner has a fair chance to grow. At NavGurukuls AI learning labs, We are on a mission to impact 1 crore underserved students in the next 1 year. We aim to leverage AI and build meaningful, joyful learning experiences.
If you believe that technology can be a tool for equity, AI can be leveraged to bridge the learning gap, and want your work to directly touch lives this might be for you! : )
In this role, youll experiment, architect and build solutions, mentor engineers, and shape AI strategy that drives learning outcomes and equity for all.
What Youll Be Doing
- You will Experiment, Architect & Build AI solutions for learning at scale. You will Design, fine-tune & deploy advanced LLMs (GPT, BERT, open-source models), MOE applications for diverse real-world Learning applications.
- You will establish AI-driven decision intelligence frameworks to enhance organizational efficiency and impact. This includes implementing automated evaluation and A/B testing for prompts and model outputs, with quality measured through metrics and human-in-the-loop feedback.
- You are committed to a careful, iterative, and data-driven approach for optimization, innovation, and continuous experimentation. You also have experience developing evaluation datasets for benchmarking model fit and task-specific performance, ensuring AI systems deliver reliable, high-quality result
- Create prompt and chain flows using best practices build prompt templates, orchestration and tool/chain integrations.
- Mentor junior engineers and guide them in AI best practices, experimentation, and rapid prototyping
- Expose models and pipelines via clean, secure APIs (FastAPI/Flask) and work with infra/ops for deployment and monitoring.Write high-quality, well-tested production code (typing, pytest, packaging) and maintain good documentation.
What Were Looking For.
- Expert-level programming in Python and AI/ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain, RAG, vector search solutions).
- LLM & NLP expertise hands-on experience with GPT, BERT, vector databases, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning.
- Strong MLOps and deployment experience model training, serving, monitoring, lifecycle management, and building production-grade AI systems at scale.
- A strategic mindset with hands-on execution ability you can design architecture as well as roll up your sleeves and code.
- You keep informed about developments in AI and take an active interest in emerging research and industry trends, and you understand the implications for our products competitiveness and performance.
- Contributions to open-source AI projects or thought leadership in the AI community is a heavy plus :)
Why Join NavGurukul?
- Real-World Impact Navgurukuls AI learning labs is on a mission to empower 1Cr underserved students by building pedagogically enabled AI applications. You will join a team of people who intend to build real world impact that can change lives, enhance learning, and optimize social impact systems.
- A Place to Belong A community that cares for your soul, challenges your mind, and strengthens your body. :) A place where you are encouraged to take paid vipassana breaks, Join 26 Paid learning Saturdays, inspire each other to make healthy lifestyle choices and grow with a circle of curious, kind, and passionate people.
- Leadership & Innovation Shape AI strategy, mentor the next generation of engineers, and drive organizational AI adoption.
- Purpose Over Pay As a nonprofit, our salaries are significantly lower than corporate benchmarks (often 6080% lower for senior members). But what we offer in return is immense purpose, autonomy, and the chance to work with passionate, mission-driven people.
Years Of Experience
We are hiring at all levels, from engineers with 2+ years of experience to senior leadership/CTO. What matters most is strong real-world AI/ML experience. If you meet 60 percent of the technical requirements, enjoy learning (Bonus points if you had excellent Math scores :P) we encourage you to apply! :)
If this speaks to you, or someone you know!
