Backend AI Engineer

VaktaAI, a leading EdTech startup in Ahmedabad, India, is seeking a skilled Backend AI Engineer to join its core engineering team. This full-time, permanent position offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge Generative AI technology and build AI systems that impact millions of Indian students. The role involves designing and developing server-side logic, APIs, and AI pipeline orchestration for voice-driven and AI-powered educational applications, with a focus on high performance, scalability, and cost efficiency. The ideal candidate will have 12 years of backend development experience with hands-on AI/ML product experience, strong proficiency in Python and FastAPI, and experience with LLMs, RAG systems, and voice AI. Responsibilities include designing scalable backend applications and RESTful services, implementing RAG systems, optimizing LLM pipelines, building real-time voice AI pipelines, managing data pipelines, optimizing system performance and cost efficiency, ensuring reliable releases, contributing to architecture, and championing best practices. The company offers a fast-paced learning environment, direct collaboration with the founding team, competitive compensation with equity/ESOP potential, and a flexible remote/hybrid work environment. Experience with LLM orchestration frameworks, real-time audio streaming, multilingual NLP, and prior startup experience are considered a plus. To apply, please share your resume highlighting AI/ML project experience and relevant GitHub repositories.