Senior Al Engineer India

Job Description

Job Title: Senior AI Engineer
Company: Cornerstone OnDemand
Product Line: Workforce AI
Employment Type: Full-Time
Experience Level: 810 years

Role Overview

Cornerstone OnDemand is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to build AI-native products within our Workforce AI product line. This role is designed for an engineer who builds systems with artificial intelligence at the core not as an add-onowning architecture prompt engineering model integration and production-scale delivery.

You will work closely with Product UX and Platform Engineering teams to deliver scalable trustworthy AI capabilities that power Cornerstones workforce intelligence solutions.

In this role you will

AI-Native Product Development

• Design and implement AI-first architectures where machine learning and generative AI are foundational system components.
• Build and productionize ML and Generative AI workflows including prompt engineering retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) evaluation and iteration.
• Develop end-to-end AI features from data ingestion and feature engineering to inference and feedback loops.
• Partner with Product and UX teams to shape AI-driven user experiences ensuring usability explainability and trust.

Prompt Engineering & Optimization

• Design develop and optimize prompt strategies for large language models to ensure accuracy consistency and relevance in production use cases.
• Implement prompt versioning experimentation and A/B testing to support rapid iteration and data-driven improvements.
• Continuously evaluate and refine prompts using offline evaluation automated testing and live telemetry to reduce hallucinations and improve output quality.
• Optimize prompt and model usage to balance response quality latency and cost efficiency at scale.
• Collaborate with UX and Product to align prompt behavior with user intent tone and experience expectations.

Engineering & Platform Excellence

• Develop scalable backend services using Java and/or Python deployed in AWS cloud environments.
• Design and optimize API-driven architectures that integrate AI services securely and reliably across the platform.
• Work with SQL and NoSQL databases to support transactional and analytical workloads.
• Apply strong engineering fundamentals around performance reliability observability and security.
• Contribute to architectural decisions that ensure long-term scalability and maintainability.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Provide technical leadership in AI and system design discussions.
• Mentor engineers and help raise the overall AI and engineering maturity of the team.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Data Science Platform UX DevOps and Security teams.
• Influence technical roadmaps and align AI capabilities with Workforce AI product goals.

Youve got what it takes if you have

• 810 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java and/or Python.
• Proven experience delivering AI/ML or Generative AI systems in production.
• Hands-on expertise in prompt engineering and prompt optimization for LLM-powered applications.
• Solid experience with AWS and cloud-native system design.
• Strong working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Ability to design systems that balance AI quality scalability latency and cost.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with LLMs RAG architectures vector databases and structured output enforcement.
• Familiarity with MLOps practices (model versioning monitoring evaluation).
• Experience designing AI-powered user experiences in partnership with UX teams.
• Background in enterprise SaaS or workforce/HR technology.
• Experience taking AI products from concept to production.

Why Cornerstone Workforce AI

• AI at the Core: Build truly AI-native capabilities that power Cornerstones Workforce AI platform.
• High Impact: Influence core product architecture and AI strategy at enterprise scale.
• Collaboration: Work alongside experienced product UX and engineering leaders.
• Our Values:
  • Shatter Boundaries
  • Spark Greatness
  • Share Success

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Our Culture:

Spark Greatness. Shatter Boundaries. Share Success. Are you ready Because here right now is where the future of work is happening. Where curious disruptors and change innovators like you are helping communities and customers enable everyone anywhere to learn grow and advance. To be better tomorrow than they are today.

Who We Are:

Cornerstone powers the potential of organizations and their people to thrive in a changing world. Cornerstone Galaxy the complete AI-powered workforce agility platform meets organizations where they are. With Galaxy organizations can identify skills gaps and development opportunities retain and engage top talent and provide multimodal learning experiences to meet the diverse needs of the modern workforce. More than 7000 organizations and 100 million users in 180 countries and in nearly 50 languages use Cornerstone Galaxy to build high-performing future-ready organizations and people today.

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Required Experience:

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