AI Engineer

Innovate in Bengaluru

This position is based at our on-site office in Bengaluru. Lowes offers an ultramodern work environment complete with cutting-edge technology collaborative workspaces an on-site gym and clinic and other perks to enhance your work experience.

About Lowes

Job Summary

As a Software Engineer / AI Engineer you will design develop and deliver scalable software applications and AI-enabled solutions that solve real-world business problems. You will work across backend services APIs data platforms cloud-native systems and modern AI technologies to build reliable secure and production-ready applications.

You will collaborate with Product Management Architecture Security Infrastructure Data Engineering and other Engineering teams to develop enterprise-grade solutions aligned with business requirements.

The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals along with practical experience developing AI-native and LLM-powered applications. This includes working with Large Language Models (LLMs) AI agents Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) orchestration frameworks tool-calling architectures Model Context Protocol (MCP) vector databases prompt engineering evaluation frameworks and enterprise AI integration patterns.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design develop test and maintain scalable software applications and AI-enabled solutions.

• Develop backend applications RESTful APIs microservices and distributed services using Java Spring Boot and modern software engineering frameworks.

• Build and maintain frontend applications using and modern web development technologies when required.

• Design and implement production-ready LLM-powered applications and AI-native capabilities that address real business use cases.

• Build AI agents and agentic workflows capable of interacting with enterprise APIs databases documents operational systems and external tools.

• Develop agentic solutions using frameworks and platforms such as Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) LangChain LangGraph CrewAI Semantic Kernel or similar technologies.

• Implement Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations including MCP servers clients tools and reusable enterprise capabilities for AI applications.

• Design and implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines using embeddings vector databases semantic search metadata filtering document retrieval reranking and grounded response generation.

• Integrate LLMs and AI models from platforms such as Google Gemini OpenAI Anthropic Claude or similar enterprise AI platforms.

• Develop secure tool-calling and function-calling workflows that allow AI agents to interact with internal services and enterprise systems.

• Apply prompt engineering and context engineering techniques to improve the accuracy relevance and reliability of LLM-based applications.

• Implement AI guardrails validation mechanisms structured outputs grounding techniques and safety controls to reduce hallucinations and improve application reliability.

• Develop evaluation frameworks for AI applications including response-quality evaluation regression testing hallucination detection groundedness checks latency measurement and cost monitoring.

• Implement AI observability and monitoring capabilities to track model behavior application performance token consumption failures and production quality.

• Design and implement database solutions using technologies such as PostgreSQL MongoDB Apache Druid and Google BigQuery.

• Integrate applications with messaging and event-streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka.

• Develop cloud-native applications and services designed for scalability resilience observability and high availability.

• Create automated unit integration regression API and end-to-end tests for software and AI-enabled features.

• Participate in code reviews and follow secure coding standards engineering best practices and established software development guidelines.

• Troubleshoot application and AI-system issues perform root-cause analysis and implement sustainable solutions.

• Participate in technical design discussions architecture reviews and system-design sessions.

• Collaborate with Product Architecture Data Engineering Security Infrastructure and Engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Use AI-assisted software development tools such as GitHub Copilot Cursor Windsurf ChatGPT Enterprise Gemini Claude or similar tools to improve development productivity testing documentation and code quality.

• Participate in Agile development practices including sprint planning backlog refinement estimation daily stand-ups sprint reviews and retrospectives.

• Contribute to engineering standards reusable components technical documentation and continuous improvement initiatives.

Required Experience

• 3 years of professional software engineering experience developing production applications.

• Experience working across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including design development testing deployment and production support.

• Strong programming experience with Java and Spring Boot or comparable backend technologies.

• Experience developing REST APIs microservices and distributed applications.

• Experience with modern frontend technologies such as JavaScript or TypeScript is preferred.

• Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL MongoDB BigQuery or similar technologies.

• Experience with cloud-native application development and modern deployment practices.

• Hands-on experience developing AI/ML or Generative AI applications.

• Practical experience integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into software applications.

• Experience building AI agents agentic workflows Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines LLM-powered applications tool/function-calling workflows Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations or semantic search and vector retrieval systems.

• Experience with AI orchestration frameworks such as LangChain LangGraph Google ADK CrewAI Semantic Kernel or equivalent frameworks.

• Understanding of embeddings vector databases semantic retrieval prompt engineering context management and grounded generation.

• Familiarity with AI application evaluation observability guardrails hallucination mitigation latency optimization and token/cost management.

• Experience with automated testing and software engineering best practices.

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum or Kanban development environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building and deploying production-grade Generative AI applications.

• Experience integrating AI systems with enterprise APIs databases document repositories and operational platforms.

• Experience designing multi-agent or agentic workflow systems.

• Experience implementing MCP servers clients and tools for enterprise AI applications.

• Experience with vector databases and semantic-search technologies.

• Experience with Apache Kafka or other event-driven architectures.

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) technologies such as BigQuery and related AI/cloud services.

• Understanding of enterprise security authentication authorization data privacy and responsible AI practices.

• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable software and AI solutions.

• Strong problem-solving debugging communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

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