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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Custom Software Engineer

AI Application EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeChennai, Tamil Nadu, IndiaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 12 years of experience in Java Full Stack Development.
  • Have strong computer science and software engineering fundamentals.
  • Have hands-on experience with large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, and artificial intelligence application programming interfaces.
  • Be able to build end-to-end applications and integrate artificial intelligence into systems.
  • Have a visible portfolio of artificial intelligence projects demonstrating experimentation and speed.
  • Be able to translate business problems into practical artificial intelligence solutions and communicate clearly.
  • Have primary proficiency in at least one of Python, TypeScript/Node.js, or Java.
  • Have 15 years of full-time education.

Responsibilities

  • Define end-to-end agentic architectures, including orchestration, planning, tool use, memory, and evaluation loops, and publish reusable reference designs and patterns for multi-agent workflows.
  • Standardize large language model providers, embedding models, vector databases, retrieval strategies, prompt templates, evaluators, and observability stacks.
  • Translate business problems into practical artificial intelligence solutions and lead discovery, scoping, proof-of-concept, pilot, and scale-out phases with business and engineering stakeholders.
  • Own non-functional requirements for security, privacy, compliance, performance, reliability, and cost efficiency, including token and compute budgeting.
  • Establish data contracts and retrieval patterns for chunking, indexing, hybrid search, citations and grounding, and data freshness; design guardrails to minimize hallucinations and enforce factuality.
  • Define integration strategies with enterprise systems, event streams, application programming interfaces and gateways, and continuous integration and delivery; ensure alignment with the software development lifecycle and release governance.
  • Set evaluation frameworks, end-to-end telemetry, failure modes and mitigations, and safety policies for content, access, and action boundaries.
  • Guide developer squads and contribute to internal enablement through playbooks, training tracks, and coding standards.
  • Support interviewer panels for artificial-intelligence-focused hiring.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience designing multi-agent systems with planner/executor roles, collaboration protocols, and tool abstraction, using agent frameworks or custom orchestration.
  • Experience with production-grade retrieval-augmented generation, including retrieval evaluators, reranking, freshness pipelines, vector databases, and hybrid search.
  • Experience with large language model operations or model operations, including prompt versioning, evaluation harnesses, feature flags, canary deployments, A/B testing, and safety gateways.
  • Experience with cloud-native architecture, including containers, serverless systems, and event-driven systems; secrets management; policy as code; and cost governance for artificial intelligence workloads.
  • Experience with enterprise integration, including application programming interface gateways, event buses, messaging systems such as Java Message Service or Kafka, and contract testing.
  • Proficiency in C#/.NET, Go, Rust, SQL (PostgreSQL/pgvector), or shell scripting.
  • Familiarity with LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, vector databases such as pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, or Milvus, messaging systems such as Kafka or Java Message Service, application programming interface gateways, and cloud software development kits for Azure, Amazon Web Services, or Google Cloud Platform.

About the Company

Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Accenture advises large businesses and public agencies on strategy, builds their technology systems and runs ongoing operations. Its teams connect business planning with implementation, covering areas such as cloud migration, cybersecurity and customer experience. Consultants work with clients to redesign processes, while engineers integrate software from technology partners and maintain the resulting systems for multinational organizations. Clients pay for project work or continuing services, including application support and business processes such as finance and customer service. Accenture was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Dublin, Ireland
Founded
1989

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