Senior Engineer, Applied AI
EXLDublin, Ireland
Posted January 30, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
EXL is a global data and artificial intelligence company that offers services and solutions to reinvent client business models, drive better outcomes and unlock growth with speed.
Job Description
We are seeking a hands-on Senior Engineer in EXL’s AI Innovation and R&D team to build and productionize Generative AI and Agentic AI capabilities for client-facing initiatives and internal accelerators.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience in building and productionizing Generative AI and Agentic AI capabilities
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Experience in designing and implementing stateful, durable agentic workflows
- Knowledge of agent architectures with planning, tool use, memory, and escalation
- Experience in building secure tool integrations using MCP-based connectors and/or tool registries
- Experience in implementing advanced retrieval and grounding, including hybrid retrieval
- Experience in treating evaluation as an engineering discipline
- Experience in instrumenting AgentOps and LLMOps
- Experience in developing self-improving and self-evolving agent loops
- Experience in optimizing systems for cost, latency, and quality
- Experience in building robust backend services that power agents
- Experience in deploying and operating in real environments using Docker and Kubernetes
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Visa Sponsorship