AI Systems Engineer

At Kulfi Collective, we are a diverse team of storytellers, technologists, and cultural enthusiasts who believe in the power of content to shape minds and inspire change. We are on a mission to create original and branded content that resonates with Gen Y and Gen Z audiences, merging authentic narratives with cutting-edge digital experiences.

AI Systems Engineer

Role AI Systems Engineer

Type Full-Time

Location Worli, Mumbai (Hybrid)

THE KIND OF WORK YOU'LL SHAPE

Kulfi Collective operates at the intersection of creativity and technology, working with global brands like Spotify, Meta AI, Duolingo, and more. We’re not experimenting with AI – we’re already running agentic systems used daily by teams and clients.

Now we’re looking for a first-principles engineer to help scale what we’ve built:

Backend systems powering AI agents

Workflow orchestration

Data connectors and database architecture

Infrastructure that holds it all together

THE ROLE

As part of the tech team, you’ll build AI-powered products and workflows focussed on transforming creative and marketing processes. You’ll develop innovative digital products and AI-driven market intelligence and automation platforms.

You’ll write code alongside AI coding assistants as a primary development tool and build systems designed for other AI agents to consume.

WHAT YOU'LL DRIVE

Build agent workflows that handle failure, retries, and real-world messiness

Design data connectors that let agents safely discover and query brand intelligence

Write clean, self-explanatory schemas and data migrations (readable by humans and machines)

Instrument everything: LLM calls and agent runs, structured traces, eval harnesses, cost and latency budgets

Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines, containerised deployments, and observability across managed and self-hosted infrastructure

Work within enforced-quality frameworks: automated development and infra workflows. The machines enforce the standards. You build things

Use AI coding assistants (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code, Codex) daily as primary development tools, not supplements

Mentor junior engineers and help establish coding and documentation best practices

Raise the bar on code + thinking

WHAT MAKES THIS ROLE DIFFERENT

Direct learnings from a lean engineering team that has designed and built agentic systems

Access to a mature governance framework and methodology that lets a small team ship with disproportionate output

Hands-on experience building agent-first infrastructure where AI is the operating model, not a feature

Work on projects that blend creativity, culture, and code, impacting the biggest brands in India and globally

The domain is learnable. We’ll teach it. You bring the craft

WHO YOU ARE

2–3 years of experience building backend systems that have actually gone live

Strong Python/TypeScript skills (async, type hints, modern tooling)

You write code that is clear, structured, and interpretable, by humans and AI

Database fluency: schema des