Software Development Engineer III

About this job

About the role

We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer to design and develop scalable solution supporting diverse Generative AI and Agentic AI use cases. The candidate should have hands-on experience in working on, and not limited to, multi-agent systems, AI orchestration frameworks, RAG, LLMs. You will be responsible to deliver reliable, extensible, and enterprise-grade AI solutions at scale, in collaboration with other Engineers.

You will be responsible for

• Developing and deploying AI systems with a focus on agentic AI, utilizing emerging protocols such as MCP and A2A.
• Building and refining Generative AI systems, including RAG and LLM applications, from initial concept to production.
• Rapidly creating proof-of-concepts (POCs) to demonstrate new ideas and scaling successful ones into robust software solutions.

Implementing ML Engineering and MLOps best practices for model versioning, lifecycle management, and experiment tracking to manage the entire machine learning lifecycle.

• Managing data flows and model calls within live, production-level services.
• Building scalable and reliable infrastructure, considering trade-offs like cost optimization, availability, and on-premises vs. cloud deployment.
• Staying current with evolving tools and technologies in the AI landscape.

Frameworks and Platform Experience

• At least one cloud AI stack experience. Azure preferred.
• Must have good experience on one datastore (PostGres, Couchbase/Redis).
• Must know how to write Rest-API (Python, FASTAPI). Whats in it for you?
• At Tesco, we are committed to providing the best for you.

As a result, our colleagues enjoy a unique, differentiated, market- competitive reward package, based on the current industry practices, for all the work they put into serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

• Our Tesco Rewards framework consists of pillars - Fixed Pay, Incentives, and Benefits.
• Total Rewards offered at Tesco is determined by four principles -simple, fair, competitive, and sustainable.
• Salary - Your fixed pay is the guaranteed pay as per your contract of employment.

Leave & Time-off - Colleagues are entitled to 30 days of leave (18 days of Earned Leave, 12 days of Casual/Sick Leave) and 10 national and festival holidays, as per the company’s policy.

Making Retirement Tension-FreeSalary - In addition to Statutory retirement beneets, Tesco enables colleagues to participate in voluntary programmes like NPS and VPF.

Health is Wealth - Tesco promotes programmes that support a culture of health and wellness including insurance for colleagues and their family. Our medical insurance provides coverage for dependents including parents or in-laws.

Mental Wellbeing - We offer mental health support through self-help tools, community groups, ally networks, face-to-face counselling, and more for both colleagues and dependents.

Financial Wellbeing - Through our financial literacy partner, we offer one-to-one financial coaching at discounted rates, as well as salary advances on earned wages upon request.

Save As You Earn (SAYE) - Our SAYE programme allows colleagues to transition from being employees to Tesco shareholders through a structured 3-year savings plan.

Physical Wellbeing - Our green campus promotes physical wellbeing with facilities that include a cricket pitch, football field, badminton and volleyball courts, along with indoor games, encouraging a healthier lifestyle.

About Us

At Tesco, inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. We believe in treating everyone fairly and with respect, valuing individuality and uniqueness to create a true sense of belonging. Diversity and inclusion are deeply embedded in our values—we treat people how they want to be treated. Our goal is for all colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work, and we are committed to helping them thrive. Across the Tesco group, we are…