AI/ML Engineer

AppZen, Inc.

Pune, India

On-site

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for AI/ML engineers who build and deploy LLM-powered agentic systems in finance, with a focus on production-grade code and cross-functional collaboration.

Best fit for

AI/ML engineers with 1–3 years of experience in LLM-based applications and finance workflows
— “1–3 years of experience building and deploying ML/AI solutions in production, including at least 1 year of hands-on work on LLM-based applications.”
Candidates who can transition from prototype development to production deployment with structured outputs
— “take features from prototype to production, and own them once they are live.”
Individuals with experience in RAG pipelines and vector databases for financial decision-making
— “build retrieval pipelines (chunking, embeddings, vector search and re-ranking) that give models the right policy, vendor and transaction context.”

Things to consider

This role requires deployment expertise with Docker and CI/CD pipelines on cloud platforms.
— “experience deploying on a cloud platform (AWS, GCP or Azure).”
Candidates must be prepared to work in a cross-functional team with senior engineers and product managers.
— “Work closely with senior engineers, data scientists and product managers to turn customer and business requirements into well-scoped technical solutions.”

How to stand out

Highlight experience with agentic workflows and LLM-powered financial automation in your resume.
— “build and ship the LLM-powered and agentic features that read, understand and make decisions on invoices, expense reports and card transactions.”
Demonstrate your ability to build and deploy REST APIs using FastAPI or Flask.
— “Strong Python skills, with experience writing clean, tested, production-grade code and building REST APIs (e.g., FastAPI or Flask).”
Showcase your hands-on work with LangGraph or similar agent frameworks in your portfolio.
— “Hands-on experience with LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex or similar frameworks.”
Emphasize your ability to create evaluation datasets and automated test suites for LLM systems.
— “Build evaluation datasets, metrics and automated test suites to measure accuracy, hallucination rate, latency and cost.”
Include projects involving fine-tuning techniques like LoRA or working with PyTorch.
— “Exposure to fine-tuning (e.g., LoRA) is a plus.”

Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

successful deployment of LLM-powered features
accurate and efficient financial decision-making
reliable and scalable production systems

Typical background

1-3 years of experience in AI/MLstrong Python skills

Skills & requirements

Required

LLM DevelopmentAgent FrameworksRetrieval-augmented GenerationPrompting TechniquesProduction EngineeringCross-functional Collaboration

Preferred

Digital LiteracyData Analysis

Stack & domain

PythonLangchainLanggraphLlamaindexPineconeMilvusPgvectorFaissFastapiFlaskAIMLLLMRAG

About the role

Original posting from AppZen, Inc. via Lever

AppZen is the leader in autonomous spend-to-pay software. Its patented artificial intelligence accurately and efficiently processes information from thousands of data sources so that organizations can better understand enterprise spend at scale to make smarter business decisions. It seamlessly integrates with existing accounts payable, expense, and card workflows to read, understand, and make real-time decisions based on your unique spend profile, leading to faster processing times and fewer instances of fraud or wasteful spend. Global enterprises, including one-third of the Fortune 500, use AppZen’s invoice, expense, and card transaction solutions to replace manual finance processes and accelerate the speed and agility of their businesses. To learn more, visit us at www.appzen.com.
About the role ::
We are looking for an AI/ML Engineer with 1–3 years of experience to join our growing AI team. In this role, you will build and ship the LLM-powered and agentic features that read, understand and make decisions on invoices, expense reports and card transactions for some of the world’s largest finance teams. You will work alongside senior AI/ML engineers, data scientists and product managers to take features from prototype to production, and own them once they are live. If you enjoy turning the latest advances in LLMs and agents into reliable and measurable products, AppZen is the place for you.
Key Responsibilities ::
LLM & Agent Development: Build and improve LLM-powered features and multi-step agentic workflows (e.g., using LangGraph) that extract, validate and reason over invoices, receipts, expense reports and card transactions.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Build retrieval pipelines (chunking, embeddings, vector search and re-ranking) that give models the right policy, vendor and transaction context to make accurate financial decisions.
Tool Use & Structured Outputs: Implement function calling and API integrations so that models can reliably query internal services and ERP/AP systems, and return validated, structured (JSON) outputs.
Evaluation & Quality: Build evaluation datasets, metrics and automated test suites to measure accuracy, hallucination rate, latency and cost, and use the results to improve prompts, retrieval and models.
Production Engineering: Package and deploy models and services using Docker and CI/CD pipelines, add monitoring and logging, and keep them reliable, scalable and cost-efficient in production.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with senior engineers, data scientists and product managers to turn customer and business requirements into well-scoped technical solutions, and contribute to code reviews and design discussions.
Required Skills ::
Professional Experience: 1–3 years of experience building and deploying ML/AI solutions in production, including at least 1 year of hands-on work on LLM-based applications.
Programming: Strong Python skills, with experience writing clean, tested, production-grade code and building REST APIs (e.g., FastAPI or Flask).
LLM & Agent Frameworks: Hands-on experience with LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex or similar frameworks, and with LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) or open-source models.
RAG & Vector Databases: Practical experience building RAG pipelines using vector databases such as Pinecone, Milvus, pgvector or FAISS.
Prompting & Structured Outputs: Good understanding of prompting techniques (few-shot, Chain-of-Thought, ReAct) and of getting reliable structured outputs and function calls from LLMs.
ML Fundamentals: Solid grounding in ML and NLP fundamentals, with working experience in PyTorch or a similar framework. Exposure to fine-tuning (e.g., LoRA) is a plus.
MLOps & Cloud: Working knowledge of Docker, Git and CI/CD, and experience deploying on a cloud platform (AWS, GCP or Azure). Familiarity with LLM observability tools (e.g., LangSmith, Arize Phoenix or Weights & Biases) is a plus.
Good to Have: Experience with document AI (OCR, invoice or receipt data extraction) or with finance, accounts payable or expense data.
Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Source: AppZen, Inc. careers (Lever)