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AkzoNobel


Job Location:

Pune - India

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 1 October 2026 (Yesterday)
Application Deadline: 29 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About AkzoNobel

Since 1792 weve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color peoples lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands including Dulux International Sikkens and Interpon is trusted by customers around the globe. Were active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. Its what youd expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company thats dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today while creating an even better tomorrow. Lets paint the future together.

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Job Purpose

The IT Engineer Agentic AI Engineer is responsible for designing developing deploying and continuously optimizing enterprise-grade Agentic AI and intelligent automation solutions across global business environments. The role combines the responsibilities of Functional Engineer AI and Technical Engineer AI to translate business requirements into scalable AI-driven products and services using Azure AI platforms large language models orchestration frameworks and modern application technologies. The position focuses on implementing secure observable and reliable AI ecosystems leveraging Azure AI Foundry Azure OpenAI Azure AI Agent Service Semantic Kernel Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines vector databases APIs and enterprise integrations. The role also supports and modern user interface development for AI-enabled applications establishes AI evaluation criteria and observability standards and ensures effective human-in-the-loop controls. Responsibilities include troubleshooting hallucinations integration failures and model performance issues while supporting Agile and DevOps delivery practices to accelerate enterprise-scale AI transformation initiatives.

Key Activities

Story specification: Translate business objectives process requirements and stakeholder expectations into detailed functional and technical designs user stories acceptance criteria and implementation plans for agentic AI and intelligent automation initiatives. Collaborate with business teams architects and delivery stakeholders to align AI capabilities with enterprise priorities. Development & delivery: Lead and support the end-to-end delivery of enterprise AI initiatives using Azure-native AI services orchestration frameworks APIs RAG architectures and modern application technologies. Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture security governance documentation and coding standards. Develop and review AI workflows reasoning agents integrations user interfaces and automation components while enforcing testing and deployment conventions. Contribute to solution approvals and production deployment readiness. Testing: Define and execute testing strategies for autonomous systems reasoning loops AI safety guardrails and enterprise integrations. Support functional testing business acceptance testing and validation of observability traceability and model performance metrics. Verify production readiness and ensure AI solutions meet operational security and quality expectations. Incident management: Monitor production AI environments for performance security reliability and compliance issues. Conduct root cause analysis for hallucinations orchestration failures integration incidents and degraded model behavior. Coordinate corrective actions deploy fixes improve dashboards and monitoring frameworks and identify opportunities for automation and process optimization. Project support: Own and contribute to project deliverables in Agile DevOps or waterfall delivery models. Collaborate with Project Managers Scrum Masters business stakeholders and engineering teams to ensure timely and high-quality delivery of AI solutions. Support planning estimation documentation stakeholder communication and continuous improvement activities.

Experience
  • Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science Information Technology Artificial Intelligence Software Engineering Data Science or a related discipline.
  • Professional experience ranges from 01 years for entry-level engineering profiles through 6 years for advanced engineering and leadership-oriented levels depending on MM1MM3 maturity classification.
  • Strong technical expertise in Python development AI application engineering and enterprise integration technologies. Working knowledge of REST APIs orchestration frameworks Azure AI Foundry Azure OpenAI Azure AI Agent Service Semantic Kernel Retrieval-Augmented Generation architectures vector databases and cloud-native application development.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines MLOps practices model monitoring observability tooling automated testing DevOps delivery and Agile ways of working. Ability to evaluate AI model quality implement human-in-the-loop controls troubleshoot hallucinations and reasoning failures and optimize enterprise AI solutions for performance security and scalability.
  • Capability expectations differ across MM1MM3 levels and include progression from supporting development activities and issue resolution to independently leading complex AI engineering initiatives mentoring engineers contributing to governance and safety standards and driving enterprise AI transformation outcomes.

At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when our organization all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age or disability.

Requisition ID:56223


Required Experience:

IC


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We’ve been pioneering a world of possibilities to bring surfaces to life for well over 200 years. As experts in making coatings, there’s a good chance you’re only ever a few meters away from one of our products. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sik ... View more

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