Join Team Arango!

AI Engineer

About ArangoDB

Arango makes your business data AI-ready, giving agents, apps, and assistants trusted context at scale. Every answer traceable. Every decision is governed. No more stitching together a vector store, a graph database, a search index, and a governance layer added as an afterthought. Arango’s Contextual Data Platform has it all built in, not bolted on.

Trusted by organizations including NVIDIA, HPE, Zscaler, the London Stock Exchange, the U.S. Air Force, NIH, Siemens, and Articul8, Arango helps enterprises move from AI pilots to reliable production systems faster while lowering infrastructure complexity and total cost of ownership. Arango is a proud member of the NVIDIA Inception Program and the AWS ISV Accelerate Program.

Stop building Frankenstacks. Start building with Arango. Learn more at arango.ai

We believe great innovation happens when curious, driven people collaborate. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and supporting our employees and interns as they learn, grow, and contribute to shaping the future of enterprise AI.

Location

** All candidates in India will be considered. **

About the Role

As part of our team, you oversee the technical development of Arango’s capabilities within the AI universe. Your responsibilities include:
 

• Design and own Python-based features for Arango’s Contextual Data Layer Platform

• Evaluate the latest developments and innovations in the Agentic AI, context engineering and Python fields, applying them effectively in your work
• Build solutions for GenAI use cases such as data pipelines, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and advanced analytics
• Develop and refine agentic workflows: build, orchestrate, and optimize autonomous agents for complex tasks within distributed environments
• Integrate and manage private and cloud-hosted LLMs with a focus on secure, scalable deployment
• Build and scale Arango solutions within Kubernetes environments, ensuring robust operation and performance for AI workloads.
• Other duties as assigned from time to time. 

Your Skills

• Strong English communication skills
• Very strong analytical and problem solving skills and high creativity, as demonstrated by published works (videos, posts, papers), open source projects, hackathon wins, or similar public evidence.
• Candidates without public evidence of very strong analytical and problem solving skills and high creativity will not be considered
• Ability to learn and master new AI topics very fast
• Strong foundation in Python, RAG systems, LLM-based systems, agents, software design and architecture, focusing on writing readable, maintainable, and production-grade code.
• Solid expertise in testing software across all levels, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end testing strategies.
• Hands-on experience with NoSQL/SQL, Mac or Linux, Docker and Kubernetes
• Passionate about solving complex problems, using an analytical approach
• Bonus points for:
  • Experience with database systems and Data/ML ecosystem 
  • Experience working with highly connected, complex systems, and the ability to mentally model and navigate intricate architectures
  • Experience with Cloud-native development (AWS, Kubernetes,...)
  • Strong exposure to Machine Learning and Agentic AI workflows
  • Background in working with or designing graph data architectures
  • Familiarity with deploying and integrating Large Language Models (LLMs), including private and cloud-based LLMs

What Makes Arango Special?

At Arango, we believe that AI is only as powerful as the data foundation. Our mission is to help organizations build AI systems that can reason, decide and act based on unified, current, and trusted business context at scale. We are helping define a new category of infrastructure: the contextual data layer for AI.

Working at Arango means:

• Contributing to cutting-edge AI and data infrastructure
• Collaborating with experienced engineers, marketers, and product leaders
• Helping shape how enterprises build AI-powered applications

If you're excited about the intersection of AI, data, and social media, we’d love to hear from you.