At Safe Security, we're building an AI-driven engine that gives the C-Suite a clear, quantified, and real-time view of their security posture. We're a $170M Series C-funded category leader serving 10% of the Fortune 500. We're looking for a Principal Engineer - AI to define and lead the technical direction of AI systems powering our products.

Company: Safe Security

Role: Principal Engineer - AI

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience:

12+ years total experience in software engineering
4+ years building AI/ML systems or large-scale data/LLM infrastructure

Key Skills:

Python
Go
TypeScript
LLM-based architectures
prompt engineering
RAG pipelines
LangChain
LlamaIndex
vector databases (FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, Redis Vector, Milvus)
cloud model deployment (AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, Vertex AI)
data systems (Snowflake, Iceberg, S3, Postgres/MySQL)
MLOps & Infra

Qualification:

Strong programming fundamentals

Role Focus:

Architect Safe’s AI Systems: Design and scale AI-driven components
Productionize AI Agents: Build multi-turn, goal-oriented agent systems
AI Infrastructure & Platform Ownership: Operationalize model serving
Data Pipeline & Knowledge Graph Integration: Design pipelines for structured and unstructured data ingestion
AI Evaluation, Monitoring & Governance: Define internal frameworks for golden dataset validation
Mentor & Multiply: Guide AI and backend engineers on architectural design

Nice to have:

Experience integrating AI into cybersecurity or risk management products
Familiarity with multi-agent systems and autonomous workflows
Experience building AI evaluation dashboards and AI observability stacks
Knowledge of knowledge graphs, semantic search, or retrieval pipelines
Exposure to data governance, compliance, or SOC2/ISO 27001 environments

Other:

On-site, full-time
Meaningful Equity: Every 'Safestar' is a shareholder
Unlimited Leaves
Comprehensive Benefits: Top-tier medical insurance and wellness benefits
Career Trajectory: Aggressive growth for high-performers

Principal Engineer - AI

Skills Required

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