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Engineering Specialist _ R&D Content Authoring

Pune, Gurugram April 6, 2026 Full Time

What Youll Do

  • Design, architect, and implement complex technical features, applying best practices across the chosen technology stack and ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Collaborate closely with clientfacing and crossfunctional teams to understand business context, contribute to requirements gathering, and translate solution needs into actionable technical designs.
  • Partner with technical architects to validate design decisions, review alternatives, and jointly define implementation approaches for highimpact components.
  • Write highquality, productionready code that is modular, testable, maintainable, and resilient to edge cases and failure scenarios.
  • Ensure delivery excellence by adhering to architecture guidelines, coding standards, and contributing actively to design and code reviews.
  • Develop unit tests and higherlevel automated tests to ensure coverage of both expected and edge scenarios, improving overall solution reliability.
  • Use engineering tools effectively version control, code review platforms, issue tracking systems, observability/monitoring tools to plan, organize, and deliver work.
  • Participate in Agile ceremonies (scrum calls, sprint planning, retrospectives) and provide structured updates, blockers, and risk signals in a timely manner.
  • Drive technical exploration by rapidly evaluating emerging technologies, conducting proofsofconcept, and presenting insights and recommendations to the broader team.
  • Support the technical architect in shaping modulelevel and componentlevel architecture, ensuring alignment with the broader product or project blueprint.
  • Break down complex, multistep features into clear, estimable tasks, lead the estimation process, and effectively communicate rationale to internal teams and clients.
  • Independently lead implementation of complex or crosscutting features that span multiple services, components, or application layers.
  • Troubleshoot and systematically debug issues using logs, alerts, monitoring dashboards, and diagnostic tools to drive quick and rootcauselevel resolution.
  • Perform peer code reviews, including reviewing work from senior engineers, ensuring quality, consistency, and adherence to engineering standards.
  • Mentor, coach, and develop technical talent within the team, providing guidance on best practices, design patterns, and coding workflows.
  • Author and maintain product, asset, and technical documentationparticularly for content/authoring workflows within the RD domainensuring clarity, consistency, and knowledge continuity

What Youll Bring

  • 5+ years of handson experience in deploying, productionizing, and scaling ML or GenAI applications in realworld environments.
  • Deep expertise in ML Engineering platforms such as SageMaker, MLflow, Kubeflow, or equivalent orchestration frameworks.
  • Strong command of distributed data technologies: Hive, Spark, Hadoop, and messaging/streaming systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS Kinesis.
  • Ability to quickly learn new technologies, run independent POCs, and document insights in a structured, consumable format.
  • Strong proficiency in at least one programming language: Python, PySpark, Java, or Scala, combined with a solid foundation in data structures and algorithmic thinking.
  • Handson experience creating metadatadriven, reusable patterns for data ingestion, orchestration, and pipeline automation (batch + realtime).
  • Experience designing and implementing solutions on distributed/cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP.
  • Practical exposure to CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and application monitoring/observability tools
  • Fluency in English
  • Client-first mentality
  • Intense work ethic
  • Collaborative spirit and problem-solving approach

How youll grow:

  • Cross-functional skills development custom learning pathways
  • Milestone training programs aligned to career progression opportunities
  • Internal mobility paths that empower growth via s-curves, individual contribution and role expansions

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