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Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Automation Engineer – Python + AI located in Chennai location.

Reports to the Senior Manager, and the role involves,

What a typical day looks like:

Business Process Automation:

Design, develop, and deploy Python-based automation solutions for enterprise business processes

Analyze existing business workflows and identify automation and optimization opportunities

Build scalable automation frameworks that improve efficiency, accuracy, and turnaround time

AI-Driven Intelligent Automation:

Develop and integrate AI/ML models into business workflows for intelligent decision-making

Apply NLP and data analytics to automate document processing, emails, tickets, and reports

Enable self-learning and adaptive automation using AI techniques

Data & System Integration:

Integrate automation solutions with enterprise applications, databases, and APIs

Manage data ingestion, preprocessing, inference, and output pipelines

Ensure robustness, security, and scalability of automation solutions

Optimization, Reporting & Governance:

Monitor automation performance using KPIs, metrics, and dashboards

Continuously improve automation accuracy, throughput, and cost efficiency

Ensure compliance with enterprise governance, security, and audit requirements

Collaboration & Leadership:

Work closely with business users, process owners, and IT teams to deliver value-driven automation

Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior automation engineers

Contribute to automation standards, best practices, and reusable assets

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, Information Technology, AI/ML, Data Science, or related field

2–5 years of experience in Python development and AI-driven automation solutions

Proven experience in Business Process Automation (BPA), Intelligent Automation, or Digital Transformation initiatives

Exposure to enterprise systems, workflows, and data-driven decision automation

Core Python & Automation Skills:

Strong Python programming expertise (mandatory)

Automation scripts, workflow orchestration, backend services, api.

Experience building end-to-end automation pipelines

Strong understanding of OOP, modular design, and scalable architecture

Hands-on experience in Linux/Unix environments

AI / Machine Learning for Automation:

Practical knowledge of AI/ML concepts applied to business automation

Classification, clustering, prediction, recommendation

Hands-on experience with Python AI/ML libraries: NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Langchain, OpenAI

TensorFlow / PyTorch (preferred)

Experience applying AI to business processes, such as: Web Search, Document Search, OCR, Generative AI, Prompting, Demand forecasting and optimization, NLP for document processing, emails, and chatbots

Business Process Automation & Platforms:

Experience with BPA / RPA tools and frameworks (good to have): UiPath, Power Automate, or Python-based automation frameworks

Strong understanding of business workflows, SLAs, KPIs, and process optimization

Experience automating manual, repetitive, and rule-based enterprise processes

Data, Integration & Systems:

Strong knowledge of SQL and enterprise data sources

Experience with APIs, system integrations, and microservices

Experience with cloud platforms (Azure / AWS / GCP) for automation and AI workloads

DevOps & Engineering Practices:

Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for deploying automation and AI services

Knowledge of containerization and scalable deployment (Docker – good to have)

Soft Skills & Professional Attributes:

Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities

Ability to translate business requirements into automated, AI-driven solutions

Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills

Ability to work independently and with cross-functional business and IT teams

Certifications in AI/ML, RPA, Cloud Platforms, or Automation Technologies are a plus

Rotational shifts

Here are a few examples of what you will get for the great work you provide:

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