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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 listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A minimum of 12 years of experience in Java Full Stack Development.
  • At least 15 years of full-time education.
  • Strong computer science and software engineering fundamentals.
  • Hands-on experience with large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, and AI APIs.
  • Ability to build end-to-end applications and integrate AI into systems.
  • A visible portfolio of AI projects demonstrating experimentation and speed.
  • Ability to translate business problems into practical AI solutions.
  • Proficiency in at least one of Python, TypeScript/Node.js, or Java.
  • Familiarity with LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, vector databases including pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, and Milvus, messaging systems including Kafka and JMS, API gateways, and cloud SDKs for Azure, AWS, or GCP.

Responsibilities

  • Define end-to-end agentic architectures covering orchestration, planning, tool use, memory, and evaluation loops, and publish reusable reference designs and patterns for multi-agent workflows.
  • Standardize components including large language model providers, embedding models, vector databases, retrieval strategies, prompt templates, evaluators, and observability stacks.
  • Translate business problems into practical AI solutions and lead discovery, scoping, proof-of-concept, pilot, and scale-out phases with business and engineering stakeholders.
  • Own non-functional requirements covering 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 freshness; design guardrails to minimize hallucinations and enforce factuality.
  • Define integration strategies with enterprise systems, event streams, APIs and gateways, and continuous integration and continuous delivery; ensure alignment with software development lifecycle and release governance.
  • Set evaluation frameworks for offline and online evaluation, end-to-end telemetry, failure modes and mitigations, and safety policies for content, access, and action boundaries.
  • Guide squads of developers, contribute to internal enablement through playbooks, training tracks, and coding standards, and support interviewer panels for AI-native hiring.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience designing multi-agent systems, including planner/executor roles, collaboration protocols, and tool abstraction, using agent frameworks or custom orchestration.
  • Experience with production-grade retrieval-augmented generation, retrieval evaluators, re-ranking, freshness pipelines, vector databases, and hybrid search.
  • Experience with LLMOps or ModelOps, including prompt and version management, evaluation harnesses, feature flags, canary deployments, A/B testing, and safety gateways.
  • Experience with cloud-native architecture including containers, serverless computing, and event-driven systems, as well as secrets management, policy as code, and cost governance for AI workloads.
  • Experience with enterprise integration including API gateways, event buses, messaging systems such as JMS and Kafka, and contract testing.
  • Beneficial proficiency in C#/.NET, Go, Rust, SQL including PostgreSQL/pgvector, and shell scripting.

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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