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Nexthop AI

Posted 11 Jun 2026

Lead Engineer, Agentic AI Workflows

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Employment
Full time
Team
4210 - Engr SW India
Posted
11 Jun 2026

About the role


builds cutting-edge solutions for large-scale AI infrastructure. The team brings deep expertise in hardware, software, networking, cloud, and AI with a fast-moving startup culture. We are looking for a Lead Engineer, Agentic AI Workflows to build AI-powered systems where agents and humans work together to simplify operations and decision-making.


What You’ll Do

  • Build agentic AI workflows for business operations and tooling.
  • Design human-in-the-loop workflows with approvals, escalation, guardrails, and operator feedback.
  • Develop AI copilots and assistants using LLMs, tools, APIs, telemetry, logs, and real-time system data.
  • Create reusable patterns for agent orchestration, tool calling, RAG, workflow automation, and task execution.
  • Work closely with Infrastructure, product, business teams to turn AI ideas into working product features.


What We’re Looking For

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience in backend, full-stack, AI platforms, automation, cloud, or infrastructure systems.
  • Hands-on experience building AI applications using LLMs, agents, RAG, tool calling, copilots, or workflow engines.
  • Strong Python and/or TypeScript skills.
  • Experience integrating with APIs, databases, event streams, telemetry, logs, or monitoring systems.
  • Good understanding of reliability, safety, latency, cost, observability, and failure handling in AI workflows.
  • Strong ownership, communication, and ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment.


Bonus

  • Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenAI APIs, Anthropic APIs, or similar frameworks.
  • Background in AIOps, networking, Kubernetes, observability, cloud infrastructure, or real-time systems.
  • Experience building chat-based assistants, operational copilots, or automation platforms.


Why Join

  • Startup energy with an experienced team.
  • Build practical agentic AI systems that combine automation with human judgment.
  • High-impact role with ownership from concept to production impacting business decisions.

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