Job Description

We're looking for a

AI Engineer

This role is Office Based, Hyderabad Office

AI Engineer

Cornerstone OnDemand is looking for a motivated AI Engineer who will lead the building of real-world experience with AI technologies using AWS, Claude, and Generative AI tools. You will be responsible for building intelligent automation solutions, implementing AI models and creating custom Gen AI applications that enhance business processes and drive impact across the organizations of the world.

In this role, you will…

• Design and build features for our AI Backend service on AWS to build scalable APIs for AI model deployment and integration.
• Own the full lifecycle of backend features: design, implementation, testing, code review, and production monitoring.
• Build and improve our LLM integration layer, including text-to-SQL pipelines, streaming agent responses and defining AI solution standards.
• Extend our RAG architecture on Weaviate: hybrid vector + keyword search, ingestion pipelines, and embedding-based semantic caching.
• Participate in architecture discussions, technical design reviews, and cross-team collaborations with data science, product, and platform engineering.

You’ve Got What It Takes If You Have…

Requirements:

• 2–4 years of experience building production backend services in Java and/or Python.
• Solid understanding of REST API design, distributed systems, async programming, and service-oriented architecture.
• Experience integrating LLMs into production systems.
• Familiarity with at least one vector database or semantic search system (Weaviate, Pinecone, pgvector, etc.)
• Experience with containerized deployments — Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong engineering fundamentals: you care about test coverage, code review quality, and observable, maintainable systems.

Nice to Have:

• Exposure to cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Familiarity with tools like Git, REST APIs, or basic data processing
• Experience with prompt engineering or experimenting with LLMs (ChatGPT, Copilot, etc.)
• Personal or academic projects involving AI or automation

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Our Culture:

Spark Greatness. Shatter Boundaries. Share Success. Are you ready? Because here, right now – is where the future of work is happening. Where curious disruptors and change innovators like you are helping communities and customers enable everyone – anywhere – to learn, grow and advance. To be better tomorrow than they are today.

Who We Are:

At Cornerstone, we believe in AI that works in the service of people, amplifying their judgment to drive high-performing, future-ready organizations forward. Cornerstone Workforce AI™, the intelligence platform for workforce readiness, brings together workforce and labor market data into a proprietary Cornerstone People Graph™, translating signals into intelligence, targeting learning where it matters, developing critical skills, and surfacing hidden talent. Delivered as an open, enterprise platform across whatever application your people work in every day, Cornerstone Workforce AI is built for scale, security, and trust, with certified AI guardrails. As an industry leader, Cornerstone is helping approximately 7,000 organizations, 140M+ users, across 186 countries build continuous workforce readiness.

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