Senior AI Engineer @ Emergence Software

Senior AI Engineer @ Emergence Software - Back to Emergence Software’s Job Listings Senior AI Engineer Location India Employment Type Full time Location Type Remote Department Software Development Senior AI Engineer - Systems & Integration, Emergence | India - Remote | Full-Time Who We Are Emergence is a thematic holding company backed by the Pritzker Organization focused exclusively on acquiring and scaling category-defining software businesses. We invest in focused portfolios, specialized operating groups with deep domain expertise and proven playbooks. Emergence combines operational rigor with a growth equity mindset, driving sustainable ARR growth, profitability improvements, and industry-leading customer outcomes. The Mission Design and deploy production AI systems that integrate cleanly across multiple backend services, enabling portfolio companies to embed AI at scale. What You'll Do Design end-to-end AI integration architectures connecting LLM APIs, vector databases, and inference systems to existing backend infrastructure. Build reusable ML infrastructure components like feature pipelines, model serving layers, and evaluation frameworks that multiple portfolio companies standardize on. Establish AI system integration best practices and governance patterns that become repeatable playbooks across the holding company. Own system design reviews for AI initiatives across portfolio companies, identifying bottlenecks and recommending architectural improvements. Optimize production AI systems for cost and latency by profiling pipelines, implementing compression, and right-sizing compute infrastructure. Mentor engineers at portfolio companies on production AI best practices, reproducibility, monitoring, and safe deployment patterns. What We're Looking For Must-haves 5+ years building backend systems or integrations with hands-on experience connecting multiple third-party tools and APIs in production. Proven track record archit