Staff Engineer (GenAI)

About the role

This role sets the standard for how Gen AI gets built into Zenskar's product. You're accountable for whether the Gen AI features Zenskar ships are reliable, safe, and cost-sane in production, not for whether any single feature gets built. This is an IC role with org-wide influence, not team ownership.

What you'll do

• Design for the failure modes non-deterministic systems actually have: hallucination, drift, silent wrongness
• Build guardrails, and know the difference between demo-grade and production-grade because you've shipped the gap between them
• Make sure an LLM is never the unverified source of truth for a financial decision. Design the verification or human-in-loop layer wherever money is actually at stake
• Pick the right model or vendor for the job (cost, quality, latency, data policy) and avoid lock-in. Once chosen, run it efficiently: token economics, caching, batching
• Set the technical standard other teams build their Gen AI features against, and get multiple teams to actually adopt it without having direct authority over them

What you need

• 8–14 yrs of experience
• LLMs
• Machine learning
• System design
• MLOps
• Any graduate