Best suited to backend engineers with DevOps experience working in AI platform development.
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Original posting from Coursera via Greenhouse
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About the Team (Job Location - Pune) :
As an AI Platform and LLMOps Engineer, you will join a fast-paced innovation team at Coursera working on AI enablement for our organization and customers. As an internal focus area, this team builds and maintains the infrastructure & tooling required to drive meaningful AI adoption across the organization, providing a platform for non-technical team members to build and deploy tools and transforming entire business functions into AI-native operating models. As a customer-facing focus area, this team builds custom AI-powered solutions tailored for our enterprise customers supporting them in their journey of AI adoption and upskilling beyond just the content on our platforms.
You will own the operational backbone that lets our agentic AI systems run reliably in production — from prompt and pipeline versioning to evaluation, monitoring, incident and cost management. You will work closely with a cross-functional team of Software Engineers, AI Specialists and Product Managers – helping turn promising AI prototypes into reliable, observable, and cost-effective production systems.
Key Responsibilities
Build and maintain the operational tooling for our LLM-powered systems, including prompt/pipeline versioning, evaluation harnesses, and CI/CD workflows tailored to non-deterministic AI outputs
Implement monitoring and observability for production LLM systems — tracking latency, token usage, cost per request, output quality, and drift over time
Design and run automated evaluation suites to catch regressions, hallucinations, and quality degradation before they reach customers
Manage RAG pipelines and vector store infrastructure, keeping retrieval sources fresh, accurate, and performant
Implement safety and compliance guardrails — content filtering, PII redaction, and access controls — in line with enterprise data privacy and residency requirements
Own cost governance for LLM usage: caching strategies, model routing, and usage reporting to keep spend predictable as adoption scales
Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Senior Engineers to scope operational requirements and translate them into reliable systems
Participate in sprint planning, technical grooming, and retrospective discussions
Education
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field
Basic Qualifications
4+ years of experience in a software engineering role, with a solid background in Backend Engineering and DevOps fundamentals
Hands-on experience operating or supporting LLM-powered systems in production (via APIs, RAG pipelines, frontier/open weight/fine-tuned models)
Proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Java, TypeScript or Go, and familiarity with Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
Experience implementing APIs, working with SQL and NoSQL databases, and writing automated tests
Working knowledge of at least one cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure), across both managed and self-hosted services
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) and CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
Comfort debugging production issues involving non-deterministic systems, with attention to detail and a bias towards reliability
Strong belief in engineering quality and building tooling that creates leverage for others
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with LLMOps-specific tooling such as LangFuse, LangSmith, Weights & Biases-style evaluation frameworks, or vector databases like Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector
Working knowledge of RAG architectures, MCP implementation & governance, agent orchestration frameworks like LangGraph and LLM Gateways such as LiteLLM, Open Router & enterprise AI ecosystems such as Vertex AI, Bedrock
Exposure to prompt management and versioning practices treated as code along with model access management, deterministic guardrails and evals
Understanding of AI governance considerations — data privacy, residency, and compliance in enterprise AI deployments
Ability to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with a proactive, ownership-driven mindset
Strong communication skills and comfort collaborating across engineering, product, and strategy functions
Why Join Us?
Work at the operational core of Coursera's AI transformation — solving problems that keep real production AI systems reliable, safe, and cost-effective
Build hands-on expertise in one of the fastest-growing and most in-demand engineering disciplines
Join a supportive, innovative team with a strong culture of continuous learning and improvement
Be part of a mission-driven company transforming global access to education and upskilling in the AI era
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