Junior AI Developer in Delhi | CivicDataLab | ₹6.5-7.5 LPA

About the role

A hands-on technical role on CivicDataLab's Responsible AI team, building AI systems and prototypes and supporting applied research.

Responsibilities

• Implement and experiment with prompting strategies, retrieval architectures, and LLM integrations across CDL's projects
• Develop and improve multilingual conversational AI interfaces for CivicDataLab's use cases
• Build and maintain RAG pipelines for document-heavy datasets
• Assess and improve dataset readiness for NLP tasks, including schema alignment and metadata tagging using standards like Croissant
• Build evaluation modules to measure model outputs for hallucination, bias, safety, and privacy issues across multilingual and domain-specific contexts

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with a focus on machine learning or NLP
• 1-2 years of experience as an AI/ML engineer, data scientist, or software engineer
• Working knowledge of LLMs, embeddings, RAG workflows, chatbots, and agentic architectures
• Proficiency in Python
• Comfortable working across multiple projects with some autonomy, and proactive about communicating progress and blockers
• Familiarity with Indic languages or multilingual/low-resource NLP is a plus
• Ability to turn loosely defined ideas into small, testable prototypes is a plus
• Interest in responsible AI, fairness, safety, transparency, or AI policy is a plus
• Comfort reading research papers and translating research ideas into working prototypes is a plus
• Exposure to open government data, civic tech, or public sector AI applications is a plus

Qualifications

• Exposure to open government data, civic tech, or public sector AI applications is a plus

Skills

• LLM Integration
• Python
• RAG Pipeline Development
• Multilingual NLP
• AI Evaluation

Benefits

• Compensation package includes fixed pay, statutory benefits, and performance-linked components
• Additional incentives available for exceptional performance
• Professional development support and wellness benefits
• Gender-neutral policies including POSH and leave policy
• 6 months of paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 6 weeks for the secondary caregiver, including adoption