Applied AI Engineer

About Darthwares

Darthwares is an AI product studio. We design, build, and ship production software, and we run six live products across careers, video, web, medicine, and food: LeetCV, LeetCampus, Vibit, Claraa, Sushruta, and NomNom. We are a small senior team with no layer of management between you and the work.

About the role

Every product we ship has AI at its core: an AI chef in NomNom, AI-generated patients in Sushruta, storyboards in Vibit, and resume and interview agents in LeetCV. As an Applied AI Engineer you will own those features end to end, from the first prototype to the version that runs reliably for thousands of users.

You will work directly with product and design to decide what the model should do, build it, measure whether it works, and keep improving it after launch.

What you will do

• ·Design and ship LLM-powered features: prompts, tool use, agents, retrieval, and structured output
• ·Build evaluation sets and automated evals so we know when a change makes things better or worse
• ·Choose the right model for each job and balance quality, latency, and cost
• ·Add guardrails, fallbacks, and monitoring so AI features fail safely and visibly
• ·Share what you learn with the team through short write-ups and reusable internal tooling

Minimum qualifications

• ·2+ years building and shipping production software
• ·Hands-on experience shipping at least one feature built on an LLM API (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, or similar)
• ·Strong in TypeScript or Python
• ·Able to explain model behaviour and trade-offs clearly to non-engineers

Preferred qualifications

• ·Experience with agent frameworks, tool calling, or the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• ·Experience with retrieval: embeddings, vector search, and chunking strategies
• ·Built eval pipelines or LLM-as-judge setups
• ·Familiarity with Next.js, Firebase, or serverless deployment on Vercel

Logistics

Education: a degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Experience: 2 to 5 years in software engineering, with recent work on AI features.

Location: fully remote. We work in Indian Standard Time.