Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer

About the role

The Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer role at Sensata, reporting to the Head of AI, designs, builds, and supports practical AI-powered applications, workflows, and automation tools across engineering, supply chain, operations, quality, legal, and commercial teams. Day-to-day work involves developing and testing models, data pipelines, and services; building Python-based applications with APIs and LLM technologies; working with enterprise data; and monitoring deployed solutions for performance, drift, and reliability. The position is based in Pune, India.

What you’ll do

• Develop, test, and support models, services, and data pipelines
• Partner with data science, product, data engineering, and platform teams to understand requirements and contribute to technical solutions
• Assist with model training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and retraining workflows using established tools and processes
• Help improve model performance, reliability, latency, and cost efficiency by analyzing issues and implementing defined enhancements
• Create and maintain reusable code, documentation, and basic tooling that support team delivery and consistency
• Monitor deployed models for performance issues, drift, and operational concerns; escalate findings and support corrective actions
• Build, test, and deploy AI solutions and workflows
• Develop applications using Python, APIs, and AI/LLM technologies

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant work experience
• 3-6 years of experience in software engineering, AI, data engineering, or a related field
• Strong Python programming skills and experience building business applications
• Experience with AI/GenAI solutions and LLM technologies
• Familiarity with tools such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, or OpenAI/Azure OpenAI APIs
• Experience working with complex or unstructured data
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple competing tasks

Skills

Education

A university degree required (i.e. Bachelors degree) or equivalent relevant work experience