About Us:
Successive Digital is a global leader in full-service software development, serving clients worldwide. With a commitment to excellence and technical proficiency, Successive delivers exceptional digital solutions that empower businesses to thrive in the digital age. We hold expertise in the realm of web and mobile applications powered by Cloud, Data & AI, helping every business meet its unique needs and objectives.
Our Expertise Includes:
Consulting: We create competitive business and operations transformation strategies to help companies stay ahead of the digital curve.
Cloud: We help businesses harness the advantage of digital and innovation with cohesive cloud services, including enterprise modernization and cloud-native solutions.
CMS: We empower enterprise transformation with advanced technologies and methodologies, including headless solutions.
Creative: We create brand stories by focusing on customer-centric design and best practices, allowing intuitive navigation and higher conversion rates.
Commerce: We help with digitization, transformation, and supply chain reconfiguration to change the retail landscape by developing winning retail strategies that help businesses set and execute their strategy with processes and technology that scale as their eCommerce scale.
Product Engineering:
We help you deliver better customer experience and business outcomes by helping them customize their applications. Our team blends deep industry and technical expertise in product engineering that creates impact and increases operational efficiency.
Industries we serve:
• Consumer Goods
• Media & Entertainment
• Government & Public Sector
• Retail & Commerce
• Agriculture
• Manufacturing
• Travel & Hospitality
• Healthcare & Lifesciences
• Chemical, Oil & Gas
• Transportation & Logistics
• Aerospace & Defence
• Automotive & Mobility
• Banking & Finance
Who are we looking for:
Role: Lead Python & AI Engineer
Qualification: B.Tech (CS-IT)
Experience: 5 - 8 years
Location: Pune
Role Overview: 
We are looking for a Lead Python & AI Engineer with strong expertise in Python backend development and hands-on experience in AI/ML and Generative AI systems. The ideal candidate will lead AI-driven product development, design scalable architectures, work directly with clients, and build production-ready AI solutions using LLMs, RAG, and modern cloud-native technologies.
You will play a key role in taking AI use cases from POC to enterprise-scale deployment.
Key Responsibilities
  • Lead the design and development of AI-powered applications using Python.
  • Architect and implement LLM-based systems (RAG, AI agents, prompt orchestration, vector search).
  • Develop scalable backend services using FastAPI/Django.
  • Integrate foundational models (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, open-source LLMs).
  • Design and implement data pipelines for AI workflows.
  • Build and manage vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, Azure AI Search, etc.).
  • Optimize prompts, evaluate model performance, and implement guardrails.
  • Lead client discussions for AI solutioning and technical architecture.
  • Mentor junior engineers and establish AI engineering best practices.
  • Deploy AI workloads on AWS/Azure/GCP using containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes).
  • Ensure security, governance, and scalability of AI systems.
Required Skills
  1. Core Python & Backend
  • Strong expertise in Python
  • Hands-on experience with FastAPI or Django
  • REST API development & microservices architecture
  • SQL/NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis)
  1. AI / ML / Generative AI (3–4+ Years Mandatory)
  • Experience building AI/ML-based production systems
  • Hands-on experience with:
    • LLMs (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, HuggingFace, etc.)
    • RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
    • Prompt engineering & evaluation
    • Embeddings & vector search
  • Experience with AI orchestration frameworks:
    • LangChain / LlamaIndex / Semantic Kernel (any)
  • Understanding of:
    • Model evaluation
    • AI observability
    • Token optimization
    • Responsible AI principles
  1. Cloud & DevOps
  • Experience deploying applications on AWS / Azure / GCP
  • Containerization (Docker)
  • Kubernetes (preferred)
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience with private networking, secure API integration (good to have)
Good-to-Have Skills
  • Experience building AI agents / multi-agent systems
  • Experience with MLOps tools
  • Exposure to data engineering pipelines
  • Experience with streaming systems (Kafka, Pub/Sub)
  • Frontend familiarity (React/JS) for AI dashboards
  • Experience working in client-facing roles
What We're Looking For
  • Strong problem-solving and system design skills
  • Ability to convert business AI use cases into scalable architecture
  • Experience taking AI solutions from POC to production
  • Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
  • Passion for AI innovation and experimentation
Your Life at Successive:
  • Successive has a culture of diverse, global teams who have a passion for collaboration and client service. We challenge, inspire and develop each other, which empowers us to own our destinies and our careers.
  • We extend our support in mentoring and on-the-job development which help you to achieve career success.
  • We provide comprehensive benefits including Maternity and Paternity leave benefits and other paid leaves.
  • We allow our talent to work on multiple technologies.
  • We provide a “Professional Development Program” that helps you develop your
  • technical and behavioral skills and competencies.
  • We ensure that On-Time salaries are above or at par with market standards.
  • We have a well-defined Reward & Recognition process.
  • We love fun and have team outings, parties, sports activities, and cultural events around the year.
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Reach out to us at: careers@successive.tech